Shubhankar Sharma and Tiger Woods miss the cut for US Open
India’s premier golfer, Shubhankar Sharma along with several marquee players, which included Tiger Woods and Rory Mcllroy, miss the cut for the US Open on Friday. Dustin Johnson took control of the proceedings of the US Open, firing a three-under-par 67 at Shinnecock Hills to take a four-shot lead.
While there was a disappointment for India’s Shubhankar Sharma, whose six-over also led to him missing the cut in the US Open, several marquee players like Tiger Woods, Jordan Spieth, and Rory
Johnson was more than equal to the challenge put forward by the weather in his two-round total of four-under 136, which placed him four ahead of Americans Charley Hoffman and Scott Piercy.
“Dustin was in complete control of what he was doing,” said his playing partner Tiger Woods as quoted by Hindustan Times, who missed the cut in his first US Open since 2015 as he added a two-over 72 to his opening 78 for a 10-over total of 150.
“He’s hitting the ball so flush and so solid,” Woods said. “I know it’s windy. It’s blustery. It was raining early. But he’s hitting right through it.”
After two birdies in his first nine holes, Johnson made his only bogey of the day at the first, unable to get up and down for par from a greenside bunker.
“That was a good one,” said Johnson, the 2016 US Open winner who watched it all the way.
“I knew about halfway there it was on a really good line if it would just get to the hole -- it dropped right in the front door.”
Woods was among a stream of marquee names that wouldn’t make it to the weekend. Looking for
“I don’t think you can be too happy and too excited about 10 over par,” said Woods, who made a double bogey at the par-four first a day after opening the tournament with a triple bogey there.
Four-time major winner Rory McIlroy also missed the cut. The Northern Ireland star, 10-over after the first round, was 14-over after a double-bogey at the ninth and a run of four birdies in six holes starting at the 11th was too little, too late as he finished on 10-over 150.
Three-time major winner Jordan Spieth, in his bid to make the cut after an opening 78, also slowed by a double-bogey, reeled off four birdies in a row starting at the 13th but closed with back-to-back bogeys in a 71 for 149, missing the cut by a stroke.