FOXSports.com · Jun 16, 2017
Falling: McIlroy, Day endure nightmare rounds at US Open
ERIN, Wis. (AP) Those wide-as-a-highway fairways. Those dozens of players under par.
Erin Hills may have been easy-as-can-be Thursday. Jason Day and Rory McIlroy never got that memo.
Playing in the same group in the first round of the U.S. Open, two of the world’s best found unplayable lies in the tall fescue, pitch shots that went up the hill, then rolled back down, awkward stances and more than enough mistakes to place them both in danger of missing the cut.
Day had two triple bogeys in the same round for the first time in his career and needed birdie on the par-5 18th to break 80. He was tied for 151st place – five from the bottom. McIlroy was only one shot better.