No player who has won the previous week a PGA Tour tournament has managed to win the US Open. Perhaps the time has come to break the rule, especially because the world number one, Dustin Johnson, has shown in the first round of this great one that he is in top form and with clear aspirations to the title. The American is the only one of the four players who have managed to finish under par the first round at Shinnecock Hills, whose intrinsic difficulty, with hard and irregular greens, was joined by an intense wind that also weighed on the results.
Americans Scott Piercey and Russell Henley and Englishman Ian Poulter share the lead with Johnshon, with 69 strokes, one under par.
As for the Spanish trio in contention, the best of the first round was Rafa Cabrera-Bello, with +3. Sergio Garcia finished the round with +5 and Jon Rahm had a terrible day, which resulted in an 8 over par.
Nor was the goddess Fortune at all favorable to Tiger Woods, who began his round with a triple bogey on the first hole at Shinnecock Hills and finished with the same score as Rahm, with whom he shares 101st place among the 156 players in the tournament.
Defending champion Brooks Koepka finished his first round at +5 and is 46th in the standings.
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