Rickie Fowler and Xander Schauffele each shoot 62 in the first round, breaking Jack Nicklaus’ U.S. Open record and ties the lowest round ever shot in a major championship.
They saw Rickie Fowler just about fully unearthed from some years in golf’s notorious dungeons and excelling anew at a major — a U.S. Open, no less. They saw this 34-year-old man whose existence they might have forgotten send a 13-foot birdie putt right down the boulevard in one of those trips to the hole that makes it look like the golfer has begun seeing the holes as more like ponds. And they saw Fowler’s shiny new score after that, his 17th hole of the day: 8 under par.The U.S.
Regardless of the sun’s laziness and culpability, its absence coincided with Fowler’s presence, and Fowler’s presence made another marker in his recovery from the perils of a sport adept at meanness. “It’s definitely been long and tough,” Fowler said of his elongated dip in form from last decade, “a lot longer being in that situation than you’d ever want to. But it makes it so worth it having gone through that and being back where we are now.
After Schauffele’s 62 matched Fowler’s on this opening day, the proper etiquette might have called for a pillorying of the course, which spent so much of its 126 years as secretive. Yet the fact was, Fowler and Schauffele, guys seeking first majors after 12 and 10 top-10 finishes spent trying, had barreled way out ahead of the others, such that Fowler saw it as “kind of cool” to see Schauffele draft off his momentum until “we were taking off a bit.
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