Jason Day, the 2015 PGA champion and a two-time runner-up at the US Open, has withdrawn from this year’s Open at Shinnecock due to a bad back.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The 38-year-old Australian was wincing in pain while warming up on the driving range. Opening on the back nine, he shot 7-over 42 and after making a triple bogey on number one, he climbed into a golf cart and left the course.<\/p>\n
Day opened the season with a tie for second at the American Express and finished 12th at the Masters, but has struggled since.<\/p>\n
He has finished second in the three majors he has not won \u2014 most recently in the British Open in 2023. His second-place finishes at the US Open came in 2011 and 2013 and he was runner-up at Augusta in 2011.<\/p>\n
Earlier, Adam Scott rose to the occasion to be the leading Australian as Shinnecock bared its teeth early in the weather-hit first round.<\/p>\n
A two-hour fog delay kept the field waiting before Scott ground out a first-round three-over-par 73 playing his milestone 100th consecutive major championship.<\/p>\n
American Sam Stevens snared the clubhouse lead with a two-under 68 as the world’s best players battled hard to deal with one of the sternest tests in golf.<\/p>\n
Of the other Australians out in the morning, Lucas Herbert carded a four-over 74 and his LIV Golf captain Cameron Smith a 75.<\/p>\n
Smith’s round was blighted by a dreaded triple-bogey six at the par-3 seventh hole, when the former British Open champion needed two shots from a bunker and then three-putted.<\/p>\n
Min Woo Lee has an afternoon tee slot.<\/p>\n
AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jason Day, the 2015 PGA champion and a two-time runner-up at the US Open, has withdrawn from this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[495,44,497,830,1037],"class_list":["post-31910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-adam-scott","tag-golf","tag-jason-day","tag-lucas-herbert","tag-us-open"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}