Most players will lay up short of the bunker on the left-hand side of the fairway to leave a short-iron approach offering a realistic birdie chance after the previous tough stretch.

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Jon Rahm's second round is under way on the 10th. The world number two is hoping to become the first Spaniard to win the US Open.

He's not going to do it like that though. A slight pull with his tee shot sees his ball thud on to the left edge of the green and bounce into the thick rough that surrounds it.

He chips on to five feet. Pushed it. Bogey

He is playing with Phil Mickelson, who had a stonkingly bad nine-over yesterday, and England's Paul Casey, who was only marginally better with a six-over 76.

Mickelson is straight into the cabbage again. Hack out to 15 feet. Bundles in the par putt. Scrambling start for the American too.

Nice gentle start this one....

But Bryson DeChambeau flunks his iron shot into the green. He'll need an up and down for par unlike Dustin Johnson and Tony Finau who both set-up birdie chances.

Ah that's not good. DeChambeau's first early test doesn't go to script and he ends up with a bogey. Finau makes par but that'll do nicely for Johnson who collects and early birdie.

He needed that after carding a three-over par 73 on Thursday.

Ben Hogan famously characterised the 10th as "a three-iron into some guy's bedroom" and it is likely to be one of the toughest holes in relation to par.

The elevated green slopes from back to front.

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Just watching some of the big hitters, namely Bryson DeChambeau, Dustin Johnson and Tony Finau all head out from the 10th.

New York may be five hours behind British Summer Time but Lee Westwood is already out on the course.

And the Englishman has not made the greatest of starts. He found a bunker at the first and two-putted from 50 feet for a bogey.

The 47-year-old is also wayward with his second to the par-four second, his ball plugging in a greenside bunker.

His splash out leaves with a 10-footer for par, across a slope and he borrows a little too much.

The likes of Lee Westwood, Bubba Watson and Tommy Fleetwood have already teed off.

I'll bring you the latest from their rounds very shortly...

Former champion Rory McIlroy, of Northern Ireland, and England's former world number one Lee Westwood both shot 67 on Thursday at an unusually benign Winged Foot.

Thomas birdied the 18th to go one clear of Belgian Thomas Pieters and Patrick Reed and Matthew Wolff of the US.

Reed had a hole-in-one at the par-three seventh, as did Will Zalatoris in a 70.

Zalatoris almost holed his second ace of the round at the par-three 13th but his ball hit the flagstick and rolled a couple of feet away.

In the previous five US Opens held at Winged Foot, there had been only two holes-in-one.

Good afternoon and welcome to our coverage of the second round of the US Open.

Rory McIlroy and Lee Westwood were both in superb form in the first round at Winged Foot as American Justin Thomas set the early pace in New York.

Wonder if we'll see more of the same today.