NY Times · Jun 18, 2022
A Weird, Wild and Entirely Typical Day at the U.S. Open
It was a topsy-turvy second round on a vexing golf course as famed and anonymous players jockeyed up and down the leaderboard and turkeys paid a visit.
Collin Morikawa hitting from the bunker to the fifth green in the second round of the U.S. Open on Friday.Credit...Erik S Lesser/EPA, via ShutterstockBROOKLINE, Mass. — M.J. Daffue of South Africa, ranked 296th in the world, was not invited to the hospitality tent alongside the par-5 14th hole during the second round of the U.S. Open on Friday. But when his tee shot came to rest on the tent’s carpeted balcony next to a tree trunk, fence railing and overhanging, leaf-filled branches, Daffue was welcomed to the party.