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Though inclement weather briefly delayed the first round of the 2026 U.S. Open — necessitating the completion of a few holes before Round 2 officially begins Friday — Shinnecock Hills did not bear its teeth as many expected. A course that devastated golfers the last time it hosted the national championship in 2018, the Southampton, New York, venue instead produced some surprisingly low numbers as play began.<\/p>\n
No one took greater advantage of the setup than Wyndham Clark, who posted 6 under after completing his round early Friday morning. He ended up two clear of the next closest player in Dustin Johnson at 4 under, who birdied two of his final three holes Friday morning after an ugly double bogey to close his Thursday night.<\/p>\n
Whether Clark’s opening stanza is an outlier or a sign of what’s to come, that remains to be seen. However, there is a bevy of stars jostling for position near the top of the leaderboard, a mixture of surprising and steady names, including Dustin Johnson, Jon Rahm, Matt Fitzpatrick, Gary Woodland, Rory McIlroy, Bryson DeChambeau and Ludvig \u00c5berg.<\/p>\n
CBS Sports will keep you updated with 2026 U.S. Open leaderboard updates, scores and highlights below. Check out live scores, Round 2 tee times<\/a> and our complete U.S. Open TV schedule<\/a> and coverage guide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This page may contain affiliate links. If you click and sign up, make a deposit, or place a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":713713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[54639,43019,427,21376,10719,51873,6817,110120,19551,99,24400,306847,306844,306845,306846,11883,306843],"class_list":["post-713712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-54639","tag-coverage","tag-golf","tag-golf-scores","tag-highlights","tag-leaderboard","tag-results","tag-scoreboard","tag-scores","tag-sports","tag-u-s-open","tag-u-s-open-highlights","tag-u-s-open-leaderboard","tag-u-s-open-live-coverage","tag-u-s-open-results","tag-us-open","tag-who-is-playing-in-the-u-s-open"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}