U.S. Open Round 2 Recap / Round 3 Preview: Patrick Reed Leads Through 36 Holes (9/18)
The First Cut Golf
CBS Sports, Golf, PGA Golf Tour, PGA, LIV Golf, Golf Picks, Golf Bets, Tiger Woods
4.5 • 664 Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
We’re halfway through the 2020 U.S. Open at Winged Foot. The cut has been made, who is a contender for the season’s first major?
- The carnage has finally come at Winged Foot! We’ve finally seen some teeth out of this classic design (0:30).
- Patrick Reed is your solo leader after 36 holes. This is a name we had circled, can he keep this going over the weekend (5:15)?
- Has Bryson DeChambeau finally figured out the formula for major success? And did he find the secret formula to overpowering any course he wants (7:50)?
- This was the 85th time Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson played in the same major, for the second time in history they’ve missed a cut together (22:20).
- We wrap with some obligatory reaction from Kyle Porter on Jordan Spieth’s missed cut, is this rock bottom for Jordan and his team (32:00)?
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| 0:41.6 | Welcome to the first cut podcast. |
| 0:48.0 | I'm Rick Gaiman, and this is your round to reaction pod for the U.S. Open. |
| 0:53.4 | A little bit more carnage on Friday, joining me to break it all down. |
| 0:56.3 | It's Greg do charm. Greg, you had to like what you saw on Friday joining me to break it all down it's gregg do charm Greg you had to like what you saw on Friday oh man well and and Thursday as well I wasn't with you guys last night but it's been |
| 1:03.1 | great so far wing foot has been a pleasure to see on TV it's really it's shown great on TV so |
| 1:09.7 | I hope everybody's enjoyed it as much as I have. |
| 1:13.0 | And boy, today was tough. The fans kicked on. The wind got going today. And it really, I mean, |
| 1:19.8 | it tortured some of the guys out there. So it was fun to see. But it still, it feels fair. It doesn't |
| 1:25.8 | feel like it's gone over the line to where, |
| 1:29.0 | I mean, have you heard any complaints from players? The only, no, I have not, and I actually |
| 1:33.8 | heard Xander Shoffley specifically call it fair. He said, it's fair. Yeah, it's going to penalize you |
| 1:40.0 | if you miss. It's going to reward you if you hit a good shot. It's fair. So no. I mean, we'll see what happens over the weekend because it tends to approach the line of fair and unfair |
| 1:49.7 | in U.S. opens around Saturday afternoon. So I guess we still have to wait and see. But so far, |
| 1:55.4 | I mean, this has just been a straightforward, tough test of golf. The intel that you've provided us all week has been phenomenal. |
| 2:03.4 | I want to get more of it, but I want to kind of frame it like this, Greg. |
| 2:07.2 | I mean, the course played over, you know, more than five shots over par today. |
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