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RTÉ News
13-06-2025
- Sport
- RTÉ News
Birdie at the last sees Rory McIlroy make the US Open cut
Rory McIlroy will be around for the weekend at the US Open after just making the cut on six under after a round of 72. The Masters champion made a birdie at the last to guarantee his involvement in the final two rounds at the Oakmont Country Club. That said, it was a frustrating day for McIlroy and it all got too much for him on the 12th. After miscuing his second shot on the par-five, 647-yard hole, he threw his club in the air. And then on the 17th he smashed one of the tee markers after his disappointing drive. A couple of double bogeys early on had the 2011 champion under real pressure but he settled down and made birdie at nine. There was a dropped shot on 11, but birdies on 15 and that saver at the last ensures McIlroy will have the chance to post a round in the 60s as he aims for a high finish. Birdie for the weekend 🐦 @McIlroyRory converts to make it inside the projected cutline @USOpenGolf. — PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) June 13, 2025 Shane Lowry had day to forget. A round of 78 to add to his opening 79 left him at 17 over. Sam Burns is the at the halfway point after taming Oakmont. The 2023 Ryder Cup player carded a brilliant five-under-par 65 to move to three under. He was one shot behind overnight leader JJ Spaun, who began his round at lunchtime on Friday. The brutal Oakmont course, with punishing rough and treacherous greens, has chewed up and spat out some of the world's best players so far, but Burns was able to thrive. Starting at two over after Thursday's opening round, he produced a blemish-free 31 with four birdies to make the turn at two under. He dropped a shot at the first hole, his 10th of the day, but recovered with birdies at the second and fourth before draining a 22-foot putt to save par. "I didn't really think of much of a score. The golf course is really too difficult to try to figure out what's a good score and what's not," Burns said. "You're really just shot by shot and trying to play each hole the best you can. "There's obviously a lot of golf left on a very tough golf course, so I think really this afternoon just getting rest and getting ready. "I'm looking forward to the weekend. It's a 72-hole golf tournament, and if you can get a round under par out here, no matter if it's one under, you'll take it." First-round leader JJ Spaun followed the eighth bogey-free round at Oakmont in US Open history with six bogeys on Friday, but he managed a two over 72 and settled into second place at two under for the championship. Brooks Koepka was sitting at two under overnight but dropped down to two over after a difficult second nine holes saw him hit five bogeys. Jon Rahm was another player who endured a torrid time, especially on the greens, as he tumbled down the leaderboard after a five-over-par 75. "Honestly, I'm too annoyed and too mad right now to think about any perspective," the Spaniard said. "Very few rounds of golf I played in my life where I think I hit good putts and they didn't sniff the hole, so it's frustrating." Indeed, the terrifying course in Pennsylvania was playing even tougher on Friday. Norway's Victor Hovland joins Burns in the red after he carded a two-under-par 68 to sit one under overall. Hovland was at three under with four holes to play but two dropped shots, at the sixth and eighth holes, proved costly. World number one Scottie Scheffler insists he is not out of contention, despite sitting seven shots off the clubhouse lead. Scheffler, who has won his last two tournaments, including the PGA Championship, was on four over par after carding a one-over 71 in Friday's second round. It seems a stretch to imagine Scheffler lifting the trophy on Sunday afternoon but the Oakmont course is chewing top players up and spitting them out and Scheffler reckons it could still bite plenty of people above him on the leaderboard. "It felt like me getting away with one over today wasn't all that bad. It could have been a lot worse," he said. "Overall, I'm definitely not out of the tournament. Today I think with the way I was hitting it, it was easily a day I could have been going home, but I battled pretty hard to stay in there. "I'm four over. We'll see what the lead is after today, but around this golf course I don't think by any means I'm out of the tournament. "I'm not in the position I'd want to be after two days, but by no means am I out of the tournament." 🚨 ACE ALERT 🚨 Victor Perez 🇫🇷 with a great shot and an even better celebration! — U.S. Open (@usopengolf) June 13, 2025 Frenchman Victor Perez hit a stunning hole in one during his second round. With the brutal Oakmont course causing havoc for the world's top players, Perez decided the best idea was to take the punishing rough and treacherous greens out of the equation. At the 192-yard par-three sixth hole, his seven-iron tee shot was rifled towards the flag in the middle of the green, bounced three times and rolled into the hole. Perez celebrated wildly, chest-bumping his caddie James Erkenbeck before taking congratulations off playing partners Jacob Bridgeman and Adam Schenk. It moved him from three over par to one over and repaired some of the damage of a triple-bogey eight on the par-five 12th.
NBC Sports
09-06-2025
- Sport
- NBC Sports
'A lot of anger' for Cameron Young after baffling shot, but trending into Oakmont
Cameron Young had feasted on par-5s through three and a half days at the RBC Canadian Open, playing the three-shotters in a combined 7 under. He kicked off Sunday's final round at TPC Toronto with an eagle at the first hole, where he stuffed a 175-yard approach to a couple feet. With just the par-5 finishing hole left and a shot back of clubhouse leader Sam Burns, Young seemed highly capable of at least equaling Burns at 18 under, especially after he pounded a 313-yard drive to leave himself 260 yards to the hole. Young still doesn't seem certain of what happened next. He hit a 3-wood into the wind that flew the green, traveling 286 yards and ending up in rough so deep that he couldn't get his first chip to the green. He'd bogey the hole, card 65 and settle for a disappointing T-4 finish, two shots out of the playoff between Burns and Ryan Fox. 'This very moment, a lot of anger, a bit of frustration,' Young told reporters afterward. 'I couldn't have hit two better shots on the last hole. I don't hit 3-wood that far, and it's blowing straight into the wind, and it decided to bounce all the way to the back woods. I thought in the air I was going to have about a 12-footer to win the tournament, and it ended up somewhere I was going to struggle to make par, let alone make a 4. Pretty upset. Played pretty well. 'Kind of just want to go home right now.' Cameron Young provides an honest assessment of his game following a tough finish @RBCCanadianOpen. He heads into @USOpenGolf week with lots of positives to take away 💪 Only Young will now head to Oakmont for the U.S. Open, which he qualified for last Monday. His finish Sunday also locked up a spot in next month's Open Championship at Royal Portrush. Young said he'll stay mad for about 15 minutes before turning the page to Oakmont, which he's never played but feels like it sets up well for how he's playing at the moment. He entered Canada ranked No. 166 in strokes gained approach before ranking No. 34 in that stat at TPC Toronto. He also was third in strokes gained off the tee and seventh in putting. Young has not notched a top-30 in his last five major starts since his T-9 at the 2024 Masters. He also has struggled in U.S. Opens with a best finish of T-32 out of five tries. 'My game is in totally different shape than it was a couple months ago,' Young added. 'I've come a very, very long way on execution of all the iron play, in particular. I've been putting really well this year. So nice to see that kind of come back to me. Seems to be giving me some decent chances to have nice tournaments. '... I feel like all the parts of my game are in a place where I can be in a similar position next week, and I expect to do that.'
Yahoo
03-06-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Max Homa fails to qualify for US Open after carrying his own bag for 36 holes
Max Homa misses out on US Open after failing to qualifying while lugging clubs around 'Golf's Longest Day' is even longer when you're slugging your own clubs for two rounds. Enter Max Homa, who carried his own bag for 36 holes Monday at Kinsale Golf and Fitness Club in Powell, Ohio, as he attempted to qualify for the U.S. Open during one of the numerous qualifying events taking place across the country. Advertisement Homa, looking to make his sixth straight U.S. Open, might have run out of gas as his three-putt on the 36th hole threw him into a five-man playoff with Rickie Fowler, Eric Cole, Chase Johnson and Cameron Young, who earned the right to compete at the third major of the year with a birdie on the 38th hole. 'It's going to probably be heartbreaking, but it's all right,' Homa said. 'I haven't carried my bag 36 holes in a while, so I'm a little tired.' After a grueling 38 holes, including the playoffs, and temperatures approaching the 90-degree mark, Homa added that he'd prefer not to talk about the caddie situation in a curious move. Advertisement 'I'd much rather talk about the golf instead of all the questions about the caddie,' Homa said. 'I'm good. Just hoofed it 36.' Homa and his longtime caddie, Joe Grenier, split two months ago, and he was replaced with Bill Harke, a match that apparently did not last long. Max Homa s seen carrying his golf clubs. X, @USOpenGolf It's been a rough stretch for Homa, a six-time PGA Tour winner who was the No. 10 golfer in the world as recently as last year. Homa tied for 51st at last weekend's Memorial Tournament and tied for 60th at the PGA Championship in May. Max Homa wasn't too tired to stop and sign an autograph for a fan while slugging his golf clubs around. AP Max Homa failed to qualify for the U.S. Open after losing a playoff. Getty Images 'It seems to be better than when someone is standing next to me for some reason,' he said Monday. 'I might need to walk by myself more. Maybe I just looked at it as a nice, peaceful walk. Probably got to battle some demons and have no one to lean on. Maybe that helps a little bit. There's no one … everything is me. The battle helped that a little bit.' Advertisement Homa will play in the RBC Canadian Open, which begins Thursday at TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley. The U.S. Open tees off next week at Oakmont Country Club.
New York Post
03-06-2025
- General
- New York Post
Max Homa fails to qualify for US Open after carrying his own bag for 36 holes
'Golf's Longest Day' is even longer when you're slugging your own clubs for two rounds. Enter Max Homa, who carried his own bag for 36 holes Monday at Kinsale Golf and Fitness Club in Powell, Ohio, as he attempted to qualify for the U.S. Open during one of the numerous qualifying events taking place across the country. Homa, looking to make his sixth straigt U.S. Open, might have run out of gas as his three-putt on the 36th hole threw him into a five-man playoff with Rickie Fowler, Eric Cole, Chase Johnson and Cameron Young, who earned the right to compete at the third major of the year with a birdie on the 38th hole. 'It's going to probably be heartbreaking, but it's all right,' Homa said. 'I haven't carried my bag 36 holes in a while, so I'm a little tired.' After a grueling 38 holes, including the playoffs, and temperatures approaching the 90-degree mark, Homa added that he'd prefer not to talk about the caddie situation in a curious move. 'I'd much rather talk about the golf instead of all the questions about the caddie,' Homa said. 'I'm good. Just hoofed it 36.' Homa and his longtime caddie, Joe Grenier, split two months ago, and he was replaced with Bill Harke, a match that apparently did not last long. 3 Max Homa s seen carrying his golf clubs. X, @USOpenGolf It's been a rough stretch for Homa, a six-time PGA Tour winner who was the No. 10 golfer in the world as recently as last year. Homa tied for 51st at last weekend's Memorial Tournament and tied for 60th at the PGA Championship in May. 3 Max Homa wasn't too tired to stop and sign an autograph for a fan while slugging his golf clubs around. AP 3 Max Homa failed to qualify for the U.S. Open after losing a playoff. Getty Images 'It seems to be better than when someone is standing next to me for some reason,' he said Monday. 'I might need to walk by myself more. Maybe I just looked at it as a nice, peaceful walk. Probably got to battle some demons and have no one to lean on. Maybe that helps a little bit. There's no one … everything is me. The battle helped that a little bit.' Homa will play in the RBC Canadian Open, which begins Thursday at TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley. The U.S. Open tees off next week at Oakmont Country Club.
