2 under wins it.

Johnson is going nuts.

Els is dead from there.

If Els gets that within 10 feet, it's an amazing pitch shot.

McDowell just skanked that off the heel.

Groups are set barring McDowell or Johnson making 10.

Johnson, McDowell
Woods, Havret
Els, Mickelson.

Blaming the lie. McDowell shoots in the 80's tomorrow.

Johnson is 5,6, and 7 shots clear of the guys that matter.

If he shoots 73 or better tomorrow, he probably won't be caught.

Predictions for today?

I think it ends up like this:

Johnson -4
Woods -1
Els +1
McDowell +2
Mickelson +4


FWIW, I'm watching the Golf Digest Challenge right now, and these guys must really suck off the tee, but they've got really good short games.

I've watched that once or twice. Makes me wish I had some name recognition so I could play.

Conspiracy Theory:

The USGA really wants Tiger or Phil to win.

There are tons of accessible pins on this course.

1 is a birde hole with that pin, 18 will probably play as the easiest hole on the course today, and a good drive gives you a legit shot at an eagle.

4 is far enough back that it's not a gimme birdie, but it's still drivable.

If Johnson falters, this course setup allows them to make up ground.

If 14 is cut on the front, that hole becomes very interesting as well.

Micheel just got a double eagle an albatross actually, on the par 5.

6 is a really easy pin too...and Micheel double eagles it.

ROFL

That story about the caddie was pretty cool.

Lucas Glover, another Orville Moody, Shaun Micheel, Todd Hamilton, Paul Lawrie type major champion finishes up his Open at +15

Phil with a great putt from 5 feet off the green for birdie on 1 and then he hits a ****ing maser off the tee on 2.

Johnson with another massive break after hitting a thin push on 1.

Looks like Phil came to play today...

What a shot by Phil on 3.

Looked like a tough par, and now he has 10 feet for birdie.

Ungodly shot by Phil on 4. Tiger with a huge snipe on 3 but a great recovery.

Johnson is big trouble on 2.

Got a knee knocker for double bogey.

Johnson with a triple and now it is wide mother****ing open.

Phil with a monstrous ****ing choke on 4.

Phil 3 putts from 15 feet.

What the **** was that?

Johnson triples, Phil with a 3-putt par, and Tiger with a crazy par save. Wild start to the round...

Miller with some great commentary. This shot is either good or not good.

LMAO Dustin Hoffman

Johnson needs to go back and re-tee. That ball is lost.

I'm waiting for a bullshit ruling, though.

This is ****ing bullshit. He declared the ball lost and hit another. The ball is lost.

Pebble Beach to Dustin Johnson:

http://i24.tinypic.com/2zecina.jpg

Ernie is running away from Phil, who has just putted pathetically save for that bomb on 1.

Johnson might want to consider walking off the course.

Dustin Johnson is gonna shoot 100 today.

His luck is normalizing. He caught a 1.5 shot break and a 2 shot break on 4 and 14 yesterday.

Johnson is playing golf like I do.

And I don't play golf.

Woods needs to birdie the 6th.

Phil and Tiger need to tell themselves that they are only 3 and 4 shots back. Despite the fact that they haven't played well, they've actually closed the gap.

Right now, McDowell is the most solid player on the course.

What. The. Bleep.

Come in expecting to catch the leaders starting their rounds... turn on the TV and Johnson has dropped 57 shots.

Tiger just got royally ****ed.

****ing Woods

Phil's putting is so ****ing pathetic right now.

When Phil hit the same tee shot on 18 yesterday, you called him a ****ing moron.

If you've played that hole on your video game, you know to keep that left Tiger. :)

I called him a moron for thinking of playing out of the hazard.

Ouch.

He went down to check the lie. He never even seriously considered it.

Making 5 at 6 is bad. Making a 6 is atrocious.

Els is putting out of his mind right now.

I think Ernie has one of the world's ugliest necks.

Put on some SPF 30 you Afrikaaner ****.

Tiger with the Texas wedge. Big mistake.

You can probably stick a fork in Tiger.

With the top players, Woods, Lefty, Els, and even Love, dropping stokes, this open will come down to little known/unknowns.

Good God, Johnny Miller is an idiot.

So much golf left, everybody's started the grind... and this is the U.S. Open... shouldn't be the least bit surprised if -2 or -1 wins.

Them shits is getting interesting.

McDowell -4
Els -2 (drove into the cliffs on 10)
Havret -1
Mickelson E
Johnson +1 (bogey golf, FTW!!)
Woods +2

I think that McDowell and Phil are the only two players in the field w/o a bogey today...

But Phil pissed away a shot on both 4 and 6.

And Els crashes and burns.

Els just fatted the **** out of that shot. He's staring triple in the face.

I was thinking Phil dropped a shot, but either way, the way these guys are playing, McDowell just needs to stay solid, cause these guys don't look like they have a run in them.

Then, of course, as soon as I started typing, McDowell makes a terrible shot.

McDowell is gonna have a tough up and down on 8, but it looks like it's on the up slope.

Every year, I always know someone is gonna crash and burn when they jump out to a lead, then they play a solid Saturday round, and I start to reconsider. But this happens every time.

Phil hit a horrible first putt on 10.

Phil just three putted 10. He's probably done.

Ernie has a short putt for a double bogey.

McDowell continues to putt absolutely out of his mind.

It's his to lose.

Ernie has a damned tough up and down on 11 from the back bunker.

Phil is short of 11 green in two, but has a manageable chip.

Why does the course look like I was the greens keeper? Brown trud smears all over the place.

Tiger just hit a ****ing coat hanger into the shit on 10.

Because they burn the courses out for the US Open to make them super hard (which makes it near impossible to fly shots and stop them near the pin), and super fast (which makes the putting very difficult)

Everyone but Havret and McDowell is playing like petrified ass.

Correction: Havret with a tough putt for par on 10.

McDowell showing signs of cracking.

Amazing shot by Ernie into 12 and Phil is in deep trouble after leaving it two clubs short.

Can a ****ing American please step it up and win one for the US please? Kthxbye.

Phil with a tremendous par save on 12. If he's gonna make a move, he's gotta use that putt as the catalyst.

Ernie with 2 feet for birdie....good.

McDowell may be leaking some oil here. Terrible approach to 10.

Did that go into the bunker?

Phil looks like he has some adrenaline pumping now after that putt, and the gallery reaction, as well as Phil's, makes it seem he didn't get the bunker.

McDowell is going to get a bogey at best on this hole.

Just post Even and see what happens.

McDowell coming back to the field.

293 to that bunker, given how long he hits it, unless it is dead into the wind and he really toed the shit out of it, he's in the bunker, IMO.

Shit, he hit it right and short of the bunker.

What a shot by Phil. He needs to drop that putt.

No bunker and a nice second.