Former SMU Mustangs golfer staying near top of leaderboard before key final rounds start over weekend.
DALLAS — Former SMU golfer Bryson DeChambeau is doing what is typically the case to win at the U.S. Open — he's staying close to the top through the first two rounds at Pinehurst, N.C. He's near the top on the leaderboard with golfers still on the course.
It wasn't a particularly good start for DeChambeau on Friday after a three-under 67 on the first day Thursday. That was good enough to be in the top five, tied with Mattheu Pavon behind Ludwig Aberg, Rory McElroy behind leader Patrick Cantlay, who had a first-day 65.DeChambeau opened with a bogey and had three more on a course that is proving to be a challenge with the typical listtle hills and mounds that can created some interesting bounces.
Scottie Scheffler, the clear odds-on favorite coming into the championship, had blown up. He's 9-over through the first two rounds, shooting just one-over on Thursday, but about everything went wrong on Friday. A 4-over there put him at 5-over through the first two days and in clear danger of not being able to make the cut. The projected cut line is 4-over, which would knock the guy everybody had as one fo the favorites out.
DeChambeau came in as the fifth or sixth-favorite of the tournament and now he'll be one of the featured groups on Saturday, when just about every major tournament really starts. He'll be solidly in the field as the cut line wavered between 3-over and 4-over at various times Friday.Sports columnist, writer, former radio host and television host who has been expressing an opinion on sports in the media for over four decades.
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