Rickie Fowler units US Open document with 62 at Los Angeles Country Club

Jun 16, 2023 at 4:17 AM
Rickie Fowler units US Open document with 62 at Los Angeles Country Club
Rickie Fowler plays his shot from the eighth tee during the first round of the 123rd US Open Championship at the Los Angeles Country Club on June 15, 2023.

Rickie Fowler performs his shot from the eighth tee through the first spherical of the 123rd US Open Championship on the Los Angeles Country Club on June 15, 2023.
| Photo Credit: Ezra Shaw/Getty Images

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Rickie Fowler performs his shot from the eighth tee through the first spherical of the 123rd US Open Championship on the Los Angeles Country Club on June 15, 2023.
| Photo Credit: Ezra Shaw/Getty Images

Rickie Fowler set the U.S. Open document Thursday with an 8-under 62 at Los Angeles Country Club, setting the tempo for a day of outstanding scoring within the main referred to as the hardest take a look at in golf.

Fowler’s 62 matches the foremost championship document. Branden Grace had a 62 within the third spherical at Royal Birkdale within the 2017 British Open.

Even extra outstanding about Fowler’s rating is he had two bogeys on this card on the eleventh and seventeenth holes, the entrance 9 of what turned out to be a document spherical. His 15-foot birdie on the 18th gap was the beginning of 4 straight birdies.

He acquired the document by two-putting from simply inside 60 ft for par on the ninth gap.

The document comes on the 50-year anniversary of Johnny Miller changing into the primary participant to shoot 63 in a U.S. Open, within the remaining spherical at Oakmont. Five others have shot 63 within the U.S. Open since then, most just lately Tommy Fleetwood within the remaining spherical at Shinnecock Hills in 2018.