Gary Woodland, New Leader at the U.S. Open, Tiger Makes the Cut

June 15, 2019

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Pebble Beach Golf Links, Pebble Beach, CA — June 14, 2019

With a low round of the day, Gary Woodland moved to the top of the leaderboard at the midway point of the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach. His score of 65 combined with a 68 in the opening round gives him a two day total of 9 under par.

Gary Woodland chips onto the green on the third hole during the second round at the 2019 U.S. Open at Pebble Beach Golf Links in Pebble Beach, Calif. on Friday, June 14, 2019. (Copyright USGA/Darren Carroll)

Yesterday’s leader, Justin Rose, shot a 70 to finish the day in 2nd place two strokes back of Woodland. Louis Oosthuizen is 3rd and -6, Aaron Wise, and Rory McIlroy are tied for 4th four strokes back at -5.

The low amateur is Brandon Wu, tied for 19th at -2. Wu, who just led his Stanford University golf team to it’s 9th NCAA golf championship, is scheduled to graduate from Stanford this Sunday. He will gladly miss that ceremony.

Tiger Woods

Starting his round on the back nine Tiger birdied his 2nd hole played, the par-four 11th. Through 16 holes on the day, the lone birdie was accompanied by 15 pars. Bogeys on his last 2 holes dropped him back to even par for the tournament, tied for 32nd.

It will take two spectacular rounds for Tiger to compete for the U.S. Open title. But, unlike last month’s PGA Championship, he’s still playing on the weekend.

The Cut Line

With only 60 players, plus ties, advancing the cut line was 2 over par. Several golfers who started the day close to that score played their way through. Jim Furyk started the day at +2, a 4 under 67 moved him away from danger to a -2 total for the tournament. Jordan Spieth went from +1 to -1 with a score of 69. Phil Mickelson did the same, he and Spieth are in a 5 man group tied for 27th.

Webb Simpson went from +3 to even par with a round of 68. Rhys Enoch’s opening round 78 looked like he would make an early exit. Enoch shot 66 to make the cut at +2. Rickie Fowler almost played himself out of the championship. After a 66 on the 1st day, Fowler’s 2nd-day score of 77 gave him a two-day total of +1.

Rickie Fowler lines up a putt on the 12th green. (USGA/Chris Keane)

The Leaderboard

Here is the complete leaderboard so you can check who will keep playing, who’s going home, and where your favorite golfer stands.

Position	Player	To Par	Round 1	Round 2	Total
1	Gary Woodland	-9	68	65	133
2	Justin Rose	-7	65	70	135
3	Louis Oosthuizen	-6	66	70	136
T4	Aaron Wise	-5	66	71	137
T4	Rory McIlroy	-5	68	69	137
T6	Chez Reavie	-4	68	70	138
T6	Chesson Hadley	-4	68	70	138
T6	Matt Kuchar	-4	69	69	138
T6	Brooks Koepka	-4	69	69	138
T6	Matt Wallace	-4	70	68	138
T11	Henrik Stenson	-3	68	71	139
T11	Adam Scott	-3	70	69	139
T11	Scott Piercy	-3	67	72	139
T11	Jon Rahm	-3	69	70	139
T11	Zach Johnson	-3	70	69	139
T11	Graeme McDowell	-3	69	70	139
T11	Sergio Garcia	-3	69	70	139
T11	Xander Schauffele	-3	66	73	139
T19	Jim Furyk	-2	73	67	140
T19	Francesco Molinari	-2	68	72	140
T19	Matt Fitzpatrick	-2	69	71	140
T19	Sepp Straka	-2	68	72	140
T19	Carlos Ortiz	-2	70	70	140
T19	Dustin Johnson	-2	71	69	140
T19	Brandon Wu (a)	-2	71	69	140
T19	Harris English	-2	71	69	140
T27	Nate Lashley	-1	67	74	141
T27	Jordan Spieth	-1	72	69	141
T27	Jason Dufner	-1	70	71	141
T27	Haotong Li	-1	71	70	141
T27	Phil Mickelson	-1	72	69	141
T32	Charlie Danielson	E	72	70	142
T32	Charles Howell III	E	72	70	142
T32	Paul Casey	E	70	72	142
T32	Webb Simpson	E	74	68	142
T32	Viktor Hovland (a)	E	69	73	142
T32	Byeong Hun An	E	70	72	142
T32	Tiger Woods	E	70	72	142
T32	Chandler Eaton (a)	E	72	70	142
T32	Emiliano Grillo	E	68	74	142
T32	Luke Donald	E	72	70	142
T32	Danny Willett	E	71	71	142
T32	Hideki Matsuyama	E	69	73	142
T32	Abraham Ancer	E	74	68	142
T45	Rory Sabbatini	1	72	71	143
T45	Daniel Berger	1	73	70	143
T45	Billy Hurley III	1	73	70	143
T45	Billy Horschel	1	73	70	143
T45	Marc Leishman	1	69	74	143
T45	Kevin Kisner	1	73	70	143
T45	Bryson DeChambeau	1	69	74	143
T45	Rickie Fowler	1	66	77	143
T45	Jason Day	1	70	73	143
T45	Cameron Smith	1	71	72	143
T45	Andy Pope	1	72	71	143
T56	Collin Morikawa	2	71	73	144
T56	Marcus Kinhult	2	74	70	144
T56	Brian Stuard	2	71	73	144
T56	Chip McDaniel	2	71	73	144
T56	Michael Thorbjornsen (a)	2	71	73	144
T56	Rafa Cabrera Bello	2	70	74	144
T56	Brandt Snedeker	2	75	69	144
T56	Patrick Cantlay	2	73	71	144
T56	Andrew Putnam	2	73	71	144
T56	Alex Prugh	2	75	69	144
T56	Bernd Wiesberger	2	71	73	144
T56	Erik Van Rooyen	2	71	73	144
T56	Clement Sordet	2	76	68	144
T56	Tom Hoge	2	71	73	144
T56	Adri Arnaus	2	69	75	144
T56	Nick Taylor	2	74	70	144
T56	Kyle Stanley	2	71	73	144
T56	Martin Kaymer	2	69	75	144
T56	Shane Lowry	2	75	69	144
T56	Tyrrell Hatton	2	70	74	144
T56	Tommy Fleetwood	2	71	73	144
T56	Patrick Reed	2	71	73	144
T56	Rhys Enoch	2	78	66	144
T56	Justin Walters	2	72	72	144
Failed to make the Cut
MC	Lee Slattery	3	73	72	145
MC	Joseph Bramlett	3	73	72	145
MC	Lucas Glover	3	73	72	145
MC	Ollie Schniederjans	3	75	70	145
MC	Matt Jones	3	74	71	145
MC	Spencer Tibbits (a)	3	74	71	145
MC	Rob Oppenheim	3	73	72	145
MC	Nick Hardy	3	73	72	145
MC	David Toms	4	72	74	146
MC	Luke List	4	74	72	146
MC	Branden Grace	4	75	71	146
MC	Keith Mitchell	4	76	70	146
MC	Tony Finau	4	74	72	146
MC	Jimmy Walker	4	75	71	146
MC	Ian Poulter	4	73	73	146
MC	Justin Harding	4	73	73	146
MC	Hayden Shieh	4	77	69	146
MC	Julian Etulain	4	76	70	146
MC	Scottie Scheffler	4	72	74	146
MC	Brendon Todd	4	72	74	146
MC	Jovan Rebula (a)	4	70	76	146
MC	Justin Thomas	4	73	73	146
MC	Joel Dahmen	5	75	72	147
MC	Austin Eckroat (a)	5	72	75	147
MC	Alex Noren	5	75	72	147
MC	Aaron Baddeley	5	72	75	147
MC	Matthieu Pavon	5	73	74	147
MC	Sam Saunders	5	72	75	147
MC	Dean Burmester	5	76	71	147
MC	Kevin Yu (a)	5	74	73	147
MC	Ryan Fox	5	74	73	147
MC	Patton Kizzire	5	80	67	147
MC	Cody Gribble	6	74	74	148
MC	Mikumu Horikawa	6	73	75	148
MC	Callum Tarren	6	73	75	148
MC	Thorbjorn Olesen	6	71	77	148
MC	Mike Weir	6	74	74	148
MC	Ernie Els	6	75	73	148
MC	Renato Paratore	7	75	74	149
MC	Sam Horsfield	7	75	74	149
MC	Kevin Na	7	72	77	149
MC	Keegan Bradley	7	73	76	149
MC	Stewart Hagestad (a)	7	74	75	149
MC	Kiradech Aphibarnrat	7	75	74	149
MC	Daniel Hillier (a)	7	76	73	149
MC	Guillermo Pereira	7	77	72	149
MC	Luis Gagne	7	71	78	149
MC	J.B. Holmes	7	72	77	149
MC	Jhonattan Vegas	7	72	77	149
MC	Luke Guthrie	8	75	75	150
MC	Shugo Imahira	8	75	75	150
MC	Connor Arendell	8	77	73	150
MC	K.H. Lee	8	76	74	150
MC	Kevin O’Connell (a)	8	76	74	150
MC	Bubba Watson	8	75	75	150
MC	Si Woo Kim	8	76	74	150
MC	Richard Lee	8	72	78	150
MC	Cameron Young (a)	9	75	76	151
MC	Anirban Lahiri	9	74	77	151
MC	Brian Davis	9	75	76	151
MC	Matt Parziale (a)	9	74	77	151
MC	Thomas Pieters	10	76	76	152
MC	Marcus Fraser	10	73	79	152
MC	Chan Kim	10	77	75	152
MC	Ryan Sullivan	10	73	79	152
MC	Brett Drewitt	11	77	76	153
MC	C.T. Pan	11	80	73	153
MC	Matthew Naumec	11	74	79	153
MC	Kodai Ichihara	12	80	74	154
MC	Roberto Castro	13	78	77	155
MC	Lucas Bjerregaard	13	80	75	155
MC	Zac Blair	13	83	72	155
MC	Noah Norton (a)	13	80	75	155
MC	Andreas Halvorsen	14	74	82	156
MC	Merrick Bremner	16	79	79	158
MC	Eric Dietrich	16	83	75	158
MC	Devon Bling (a)	20	82	80	162