2025 U.S. Open, Day 2 recap: Three players under par after two days at Oakmont

Second-round play will resume Saturday at 7:30 a.m. EDT.

With rain pouring and needing a bogey on his final hole to make the cut, Thorbjorn Olesen loses a ball, makes doubles and falls outside the number.

Mickelson’s U.S. Open exemption from his PGA Championship victory has expired, meaning Friday could have been his final round in this major.

Mickelson was well inside the cut line but doubled Nos. 15 and 17. Needing to birdie the 18th to have any chance of qualifying for the weekend, his 14-footer raced past the hole.

The U.S. Open is the only major Mickelson, a six-time runner-up, didn’t win.

McIlroy again skirted the media.

If he wanted two more rounds at Oakmont, he got ‘em. McIlroy birdies the 18th to shoot 72. At 6 over par, he’ll be out early Saturday, but he’s got a tee time.

McIlroy, playing the 18th, is 7 over and T-63, with the top 60 and ties making it to the weekend at Oakmont.

Bryson DeChambeau will definitely not be around as his title defense ends with a 73-77 (10-over) performance.

Thomas Detry is going in the wrong direction. He bungles the sixth for his second straight double bogey, moving back over par.

There are four players under par. Four. Out of 156.

One of them is J.J. Spaun, who’s in the clubhouse at 2 under. Sam Burns is done at 3 under, Viktor Hovland at 1 under.

Thomas Detry briefly shared the lead with Sam Burns and J.J. Spaun, but he double bogeys the fifth (his 14th) to move to 1 under.

Burns and Spaun have a two-shot cushion over everyone. Well, except each other.

The latter picked up a stroke on 17 like this:

The top-two finishers in last year’s U.S. Open ... probably won’t finish top two this year.

Bryson DeChambeau double-bogeys the par-4 5th hole (his 14th of the day), then bogeys the next to move to 9 over.

Rory McIlroy, meanwhile, had a birdie putt on the 14th but couldn’t capitalize to move over the cut line. He’s 8 over.

Luckily, it won’t be the difference between making or missing the cut. But you can add a rules violation to Shane Lowry’s tough week at Oakmont.

He picked up his ball on the 15th green before marking it, which will cost him a stroke.

Lawrence gets one back to move to 3 under with Burns, while Spaun bogeys the 16th to tie Thomas Detry at 2 under.

Viktor Hovland is the only — yes, the only — other player under par.

There are 156 players in the field.

Rory McIlroy did not win the season superslam. He did, though, superslam his iron into the ground at Oakmont.

The dream — or, depending on your taste, nightmare — of a Phil Mickelson career grand slam will likely LIV to see the weekend.

He’s at 4 over through 11 holes. Those 7 over and better are clear, as things stand.

That’s four bogeys in the last five holes for Thriston Lawrence, who’s now 2 under.

No, stop it, you would not beat this 36-hole score:

Brentley Romine highlights Sam Burns’ strong showing so far at Oakmont and what makes him so good with the flatstick:

Putt free and try hard: Why Sam Burns, the world’s best on the greens, is rolling at Oakmont

Burns, statistically the world’s best putter, hooped a clutch par save to shoot 65 Friday at Oakmont and enter this U.S. Open weekend at 3 under.

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Three straight birdies, three straight bogeys. Lawrence can’t scramble from the bunker and he’s a shot behind Spaun.

Thriston Lawrence bogeys his second in a row. He and Spaun are all square at 4 under.

Don’t count Rory McIlroy out (of Saturday’s field) quite yet.

Big muscle hit ball hard (and do a little dance afterward).

It’s a one-shot lead again. Lawrence three-putt bogeys the 14th; moments later, Spaun birdies the 11th.

Thriston Lawrence birdies his third straight hole and is now three clear of J.J. Spaun, who bogeys the 10th, and Sam Burns (65).

It took his group 80 minutes to play three holes but Thriston Lawrence has a couple of early birdies and the solo lead at 5 under.

Play still in progress, but stay tuned ...

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After a bogey at the third, overnight leader J.J. Spaun birdies the fourth and sixth holes to move two clear of the field at 5 under.

After a double bogey at the first, Rory McIlroy makes another double at the third. He’s now at 8 over par and outside the projected cut line.

Disaster out of the gate Friday for the Masters champ, who goes left off the first tee into an impossible lie, and stumbles his way to a 6.

McIlroy drops to 6 over and outside the projected cut line.

Viktor Hovland shoots 1-under 69 to post 1 under through 36 holes. His second round included an eagle-2, a double bogey, five birdies and four bogeys.

Playing alongside one another, Jon Rahm and Jordan Spieth both shot 5-over 75 and both displayed plenty of emotion.

Rahm stands at 4 over; Spieth at 5 over. Both should be safe for the weekend.

Sam Burns saves par on his final hole Friday, curling in a 22-footer. Last week’s playoff loser shoots 65 and is the clubhouse leader at 3 under par.

Despite two birdies in his first three holes Friday, and getting within one of the lead, Brooks Koepka makes eight bogeys on the day in shooting 4-over 74. He drops to 2 over for the championship and five back of clubhouse leader Sam Burns.

Here are Peacock’s afternoon featured groups:

• 1-6:30PM: Multi-view afternoon, all featured groups
• 1:03PM: Featured group 4: Åberg, Scott, Matsuyama
• 1:14PM: Featured group 5: Schauffele, Ballester, DeChambeau
• 1:25PM: Featured group 6: McIlroy, Lowry, Rose

Will Chandler just wrapped a 14-over 84, where most of the damage was done on the front nine. Chandler went 47-37 Friday at Oakmont.

George Duangmanee also turned in 47 in Round 2, but he’s just starting his back nine.

Victor Perez holes a 7-iron from 192 yards at the par-3 sixth, his 15th hole in Round 2. He vaults to 1 over par.

The Church Pew bunker lines the third and fourth holes at Oakmont. Scheffler hit it in there twice on Thursday and once again on Friday.

Scheffler’s poor putting continues as he records his third bogey in five holes. He’s now at 5 over par and one outside the weekend number.

Eight holes remain for the world No. 1 in Round 2.

The current projected cut line is 4 over.

What is the U.S. Open cut line and how does it compare to other majors?

The U.S. Open begins with a field of 156 players and cuts to the low 60 scores and ties after two rounds.

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Brooks Koepka makes his third straight bogey to drop to even par for the championship, four off the lead.

Vik is just one off the lead with this eagle at the par-4 17th.

Putting from off the green for eagle at the par-4 17th, Scheffler rolls his ball 13 feet past the hole. He then lips out his birdie effort and watches it roll 5 feet away, from where he misses the par save.

Scheffler drops to 4 over, tied for 54th.

Beginning on the 10th hole, Koepka played his opening nine in even par. He’s two off the lead, at 2 under.

Putting green speeds ranged from the upper 14s to the low 15s on the Stimpmeter and will settle to the upper 14s as the day goes on. We double cut and double rolled all greens this morning.

Today’s yardage:

• Front 9 - 3,798
• Back 9 - 3,584
• Total - 7,382

No alternate tees were used in Round 2; Hole 17 measures 296 yards as the crow flies from tee-markers to the hole; Rough was NOT cut last night.

He drives it into an awkward position off the tee at the short par-4 17th, barely gets his ball onto the greenside fringe, then chips in for birdie.

He’s at 3 under and one off the lead.

It was a four-putt, overall, at the 12th hole. The double bogey drops JT to 9 over par.

The world No. 1 creeps closer to even par with a birdie at the 10th hole, his first in Round 2.

After a bogey at the 10th, his first hole of the second round, Koepka birdies Nos. 11 and 12 to reach 3 under, one off the lead.

After the errant tee shots, he drops three off the early Day 2 pace.

Might see some early showers, with thunder possible in the afternoon.

After an opening 68, the two-time U.S. Open champion is in the right rough off the tee on his first hole (the 10th).

The first groups have teed off. Here are the featured groups this morning on Peacock (EDT):

• 7:18AM: Featured group 1: M.W. Lee, Thomas, Koepka
• 7:29AM: Featured group 2: Spieth, Rahm, D. Johnson
• 7:40AM: Featured group 3: Hovland, Morikawa, Scheffler