A poor second nine left Rory McIlroy with a 4-over 74 in the first round of the U.S. Open at Oakmont. He played his final six holes in 5 over. This U.S.

Spaun has one Tour win to his name (back at the 2022 Valero Texas Open), and he's competing in his first ever U.S. Open. Today was his first ever bogey-free round in a major, and just the second bogey-free round at a U.S. Open held at Oakmont.

The sky at Oakmont Country Club was somehow both hazy and bright, and the contradiction was a nice accidental framework for what we saw from Rory McIlroy in his opening round of the U.S. Open on Thursday.