open winner

This year’s U.S. Open is being played at the Olympic Club in San Francisco, California. This course has been ridiculously hard. Making par has been a pipe dream for many of the world’s greatest golfers, including Luke Donald (+11, world’s number one player), Rory McElroy (+10, last year’s U.S. Open winner) and Bubba Watson (+9, this year’s Masters winner). Currently, Jim Furyk, Tiger Woods and David Toms are tied for the lead at one under par.

From the opening round, this is the best shot by Nick Watley: