US Open : Friday TEE TIMES, Weather forecast, weekend rain.

 US Open : Oakmont CC Tee Times  Leaderboard

It's another early 645am EST start to day 2 at this 125th US Open at Oakmont CC, near Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, where American JJ Spaun will begin play as the leader -4 66.

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WEATHER : (by Weather Network)

Friday : Morning 19*c mainly cloudy, wind 5kph NE, gusts 7kph, P.O.P 30%

             Afternoon  26*c cloudy, wind 4-6 kph E  P.O.P 30%

             Evening 22*c light rain, wind 3kph E, P.O.P  80%

Saturday : Morning 19*c rain, wind 5kmh NE, gusts 8kph NE    P.O.P 90%

                Afternoon 22*c, wind 5-7kph SE  P.O.P 100%

                Evening 20*c cloudy with showers, wind 5-8kph NE  P.O.P 90%

Sunday:  Morning 19*c cloudy with showers, wind 6-8 kph E  P.O.P  70%

               Afternoon cloudy with showers, wind 11-18 kph E, P.O.P  90%

               Evening 21 mix of sun and cloud, wind 9-13 kph E  P.O.P  0%

Canadians

7.18  1st  Nick Taylor, Russell Henley, Christiaan Bezuidenhout

7.51 10th Corey Connors, Jason Day, Patrick Reed

8.13 10th Mac Hughes, Tony Finau, Chris Kirk

12.52 1st  Taylor Pendrith, Tom Kim, JJ Spaun (leader)

Notables

7.40 10th  Scottie Scheffler, Viktor Hovland, Collin Morikawa

1.25 1st    Rory McIlroy, Shane Lowry, Justin Rose

Game Plan 

Oakmont CC was a well documented tough test on Thursday and today proves to be almost identical weather, but a firmer golf course, so expect more of the same scoring conditions albeit with new pin placements.

Watch for Scheffler to make a move early 7.40am this morning, this will be the TV story if you are watching on TSN here in Canada. 

The cut will fall top 60 and ties.

However if the Weather Network is correct, light rain is moving into the area Friday night, and most all day Saturday into Sunday. (Note. see the wind picking up considerably on Sunday afternoon for the 1st time this week.)

Therefore expect the rain to soften Oakmont on Saturday without any wind of note until Sunday afternoon, which I think will be a factor for the leaders to contend with. 

Overnight Friday rain should make scoring a little easier for Saturday, with no wind to contend with, so watch for that.

Bryan Angus