
US Open Golf 2015: Easy-to-View Mobile Updates for Friday Leaderboard
Day 2 is off and running Friday at a cool Chambers Bay for the 2015 U.S. Open, with making the cut a top priority for the 156 golfers taking to the links.
A five-under par score led the field entering Friday's round as Dustin Johnson and Henrik Stenson tied for the lead, but others caught up to them in a hurry once Round 2 got underway. Take a look at how things stand up to the minute:
The scores have been surprisingly low across the board at Chambers Bay, at least for a U.S. Open. But don't let the numbers mislead you—the world's top golfers are still getting plenty of headaches from this tricky links-style course.
The rounds of 65 that led Thursday were nonetheless impressive, but they were largely due to more playable greens in the morning session. Once things toughened up, greens became impossible to read and led to much tougher conditions in the afternoon.
Golfers spoke, per ESPN.com's Bob Harig, as Rory McIlroy quipped that they "are not the best that I've ever played on," and Colin Montgomerie called them "very poor." Even golfers like Phil Mickelson, who is trying to walk the diplomatic line, cannot help but note the inconsistency, per Harig:
"I think the biggest challenge is that the green speeds are different from green to green. That's going to wreak havoc on our touch. And that's the only thing I could possibly think of that is not really positive, because I think it's been very well done.
The best way to wreak havoc with us is change the speeds of the greens from green to green, no question.
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Brandt Snedeker and Sergio Garcia gave their own accounts of what they experienced after one day of action:
Of course, taking time and effort to complain about it—after dozens of your peers have already addressed it—may not be the strongest approach to take at a tournament that will see quirky hole placements and swaps between par-four and par-five holes all weekend.
You don't want to get the golf gods involved, as ESPN.com's Jason Sobel quipped:
For all of the talk about the greens that have only amplified controversy about this year's U.S. Open, it isn't dragging down the level of competition one bit. Amid the low scores entering Friday are a wealth of contenders in the mix, and many of them are already surging in Round 2.

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