Updates from the opening round at Shinnecock HillsOfficial US Open leaderboard | Sign up for The RecapAnd you can email Scott with your thoughts 5.30pm BST Matt Kuchar´s fall from grace continues apace. Another dropped shot, this time a bogey at 13, to follow his back-to-back double bogeys. That´s five shots gone in three holes, and the erstwhile leader is back in the pack at +3. A double for Beef at 13; he slips to +3 too. And a triple bogey for another one-time leader, Aaron Baddeley, at 6. He´s +3 too. The clubhouse is the safest place to be. 5.27pm BST Scott Gregory´s horrific round has come to a nightmare end. He finished bogey, double bogey, bogey, and ended up signing for a 22-over-par 92. That´s the highest round in a US Open at Shinnecock Hills, beating Billy Mayfair´s 2004 effort by three shots. If it makes Gregory feel any better, John Daly ran up 88 in the first round here in 1986, and five years later he was a major champion. Continue reading...
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