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Alastair Telfer, Steve Sutcliffe and Peter Scrivener

  1. McIlroy catches a lift to Montauk

    Nial Foster
    BBC Sport NI at Shinnecock Hills

    Rory McIlroy has just made the 597-yard fifth hole, Montauk, look a lot shorter.

    Using the breeze to his advantage, he launched a 396-yard drive down the split fairway, leaving himself barely 200 yards into the elevated green.

    Most are plotting their way around this par five. Rory appears to be surfing the wind straight towards it.

  2. Worth the wait

    A Fitzpatrick E (12*)

    Oh hello!

    Alex Fitzpatrick has had to wait three hours for his first birdie but he's just recorded it in style after nearly holing out for an eagle two at the third.

    A seven-inch putt for a birdie. Even I'd make that one.

    Fitzpatrick moves back to level par, just two off Sam Stevens.

  3. Get Involved - do you like it tough?

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    It’s really the same principle for equaling two teams out at football. Make them play on a rough pitch, so making a golf course stupidly bad evens things up and it becomes a luck-of-the-draw tournament

    Malcolm, Notts

  4. Stevens remains on top

    Stevens -2 (16*)

    Sam Stevens saves par after a brilliant bunker shot put him in good position, and the American remains in the lead.

  5. Gotterup on rollercoaster round

    Koepka +1, Young +1, Gotterup +4 (14)

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    What a day Chris Gotterup is having! He's made his second birdie in three holes to drag himself back into the contest at four over after a nightmare spell around the turn.

    He carded two double bogeys and two bogeys in the space of five holes to drop six shots and almost play his way out of the tournament already. But those two birdies put him back in touch. Rollercoaster ride so far.

  6. Stevens into the sand

    Stevens -2 (15*)

    Sam Stevens, now the solo leader after Ludvig Aberg's bogey, finds the bunker with his tee shot.

    He will do well to save par - not ideal after just taking the lead.

  7. Putting clinic

    McIlroy -1, Fleetwood +2, Aberg -1 (13*)

    Well, that was an adventure.

    Rory McIlroy tugs his drive into the left rough at the par-four fourth. Despite drawing a good lie where the spectators have been walking, a wild swipe sends his ball flying to the right.

    He chips up to 20 feet and slams the putt home! Brilliant par save.

    Tommy Fleetwood holes his own 20-footer to save par but Ludvig Aberg slips up and a five takes him back to one under.

  8. Sand save for Scheffler

    Scheffler +3, Spaun +4, Howell +4 (10)

    Add a sand saver to a successful scramble for Scottie Scheffler as he gets up and down from the bunker on 10 to make his par, courtesy of a six-foot putt.

    Pars are still more than decent out there in the conditions, and it doesn't look like it's going to be any easier later on today.

  9. Great Scott

    Scott +2 (11)

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    Adam Scott is playing in his 100th consecutive major this week. The 45-year-old Australian started the run at the 2001 Open Championship (his second major after playing in the 2000 Open).

    It's easily the longest current run and second only to Jack Nicklaus' incredible record of 146 majors, which ran from the 1962 US Open to the 1998 US Open.

    Scott is off to a decent start and the 2013 Masters champion has just birdied the par-three 11th, after three bogeys on his front nine.

  10. De Chassart undaunted

    De Chassart E (14*)

    Adrien Dumont de Chassart doesn't just have one of the best names in golf - he's got plenty of game, too.

    The 26-year-old Belgian has two wins on the second-tier Korn Ferry tour, and while he's missed his last three cuts, he is enjoying his second US Open appearance.

    Four birdies, four bogeys, six pars. He's just two off the lead.

  11. Mitchell heats up

    Mitchell +1 (14*)

    What did Keith Mitchell do at the turn?

    He played his first nine holes (10 through 18) in six over par.

    Since then, he's five under through five having just made eagle and is back to +1 for the tournament.

    The hottest player on the course right now.

  12. Stevens on a roll

    Stevens -2 (15*)

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    American Sam Stevens will remember this round for a long time.

    Two under, three holes to go.

    Birdie, par, birdie, par, birdie, par.

    His recent holes suggest a birdie is next...

  13. Checking in on Fitzy (the younger one)

    A Fitzpatrick +1 (10*)

    Alex Fitzpatrick is having a year to savour. He won the Indian Open and triumphed at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans alongside older brother Matt, who tees off later tonight, which was enough to secure a PGA Tour card.

    Since then, he has contended at a couple of big events and is going along OK on his US Open debut.

    One bogey and nine pars has him in a tie for 12th.

  14. Get Involved - do you like it tough?

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    I prefer it tough largely because it attracts a good leaderboard - a winning score of par probably means the best/most consistent ball strikers are up there, takes a bit of streakiness out and makes it better viewing for fans

    Rory, London

    I'm not hugely bothered by a birdie fest course, but the majors should be the hardest courses in the world. The ones where you fight hard, that test both technique, golfing IQ and resilience.

    James, Cumbria

  15. Par save for Koepka

    Koepka +1, Young +1, Gotterup +5 (13)

    The 13th is a brilliant hole - just 367 yards for a par four but it's the fifth hardest on the course today thanks to a clever tee box that means you're hitting down across the fairway at an angle.

    Brooks Koepka falls for the trap as he runs out of fairway and into the rough, and from there can only hack it out into the bunker. But he manages to rescue his par with a nine-foot saver.

  16. Another Burns bogey

    Burns E, Hatton +1, SW Kim +8 (13*)

    "Oh, come on!" sighs Sam Burns as his putt scoots by the hole.

    It was from 18 foot so it was a long shot - but it was also for par and the miss ensures he'll drop another shot away from the leaders.

  17. McIlroy moves within one

    McIlroy -1, Fleetwood +2, Aberg -2 (12*)

    That's how to do it when your putter isn't behaving. After watching birdie putts stay above ground on the previous two holes, Rory McIlroy crunches a glorious wedge into the third green, spinning it back to three feet for his third birdie of the round.

    Ludvig Aberg also sent a pin-seeker into the green but his birdie try - to become the first player to reach three under - trickles off to the right.

    More frustration for Tommy Fleetwood, though. Another short par putt misses and he slips back to two over.

  18. Stevens moves level with leader Aberg

    Stevens -2 (14*)

    Sam Stevens is not going anywhere.

    The American, ranked 54th in the world, has moved level with leader Ludvig Aberg.

    He holes a 40-foot putt for his third birdie in five holes.

  19. Scheffler scrambling

    Scheffler +3, Spaun +3, Howell +3 (9)

    Scottie Scheffler makes a nice par on the ninth from a tricky spot in the rough wide of the green - and that's surprisingly his first up and down of the round, having gone 0-3 on scrambling before then.

    That'll be a key metric this week with some dramatic run-off areas around these greens, so Scheffler will have to improve on that going forward. Mind you, we're well used to the world number one making slow starts in tournaments.

    Something tells me this one will be harder to make a big comeback on though.

  20. Fowler E (11)

    A necessary update on Rickie Fowler's attire. I hadn't actually clocked his shoes!

    What do we make of these??

    Not sure he's getting away with these at Augusta.

    Rickie Fowler's flourescent pink shoesGetty Images