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Friday, June 17, 2016
East Oregonian
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Golf
Storms soften Oakmont and stop US Open
By DOUG FERGUSON
Associated Press
OAKMONT, Pa. — Even a rain-
soaked Oakmont didn’t keep the
U.S. Open from delivering its usual
dose of frustration.
Just not the kind anyone
expected.
Defending champion Jordan
Spieth, who had spent ive days
preparing on the irm and iery
greens of Oakmont, posed over a
wedge into the 17th that landed
behind the hole, spun back and kept
rolling until it trickled down a slope
into the bunker.
“You’ve got to be KIDDING
me! How is that in the bunker?”
Spieth said before slinging his club
toward the bag.
Masters
champion
Danny
Willett sat in a cabin behind the
seventh tee for more than an hour
as his group waited out the irst of
three rain delays. When the weather
cleared, players were sent back onto
the course without having a chance
to warm up again.
“You’re in a U.S. Open, they
don’t give you a chance to even hit
a few balls,” Willett said, and he
wasn’t alone in that observation.
Most frustrating of all?
Only nine players inished the
irst round, and 78 players didn’t
even tee off. Play was to resume at
7:30 a.m. Friday.
It was the worst rain delay in a
U.S. Open since no one inished the
opening round at Bethpage Black in
to No. 1. The fairway slopes sharply
downhill to a green that runs away
from players, and the typical play is
to land it some 25 yards short and let
it run onto the green and, hopefully,
have it stay there. His shot stopped
short of the green.
But while the greens were soft,
they still were quick as ever.
Starting on No. 10, Bryon
DeChambeau had a 40-foot birdie
attempt that didn’t stop until it was
some 35 feet beyond the hole.
Two holes later, Spieth hit a
wedge that checked up about 10 feet
short of the hole and then trickled a
few inches toward the cup. And it
didn’t stop. Turn by turn, the ball
kept moving until it settled 2 feet
away. Even then, Spieth gave the
putt great care and rolled in it.
“It’s nice to know if I miss it, I’m
chipping,” Spieth said walking off
the green.
There was still enough excite-
ment, with Lee Westwood holing
out with a wedge on the 14th hole,
Danny Lee holing out from the
fairway on No. 6 and McCarthy
getting it on the act with a hole-out
from the 11th fairway.
Lee was at 2 under through 13
holes, along with Bubba Watson,
who made only two pars in his
opening holes. Watson has never
played the U.S. Open very well,
except at Oakmont. He tied for ifth
in 2007.
Westwood, Kevin Streelman and
Harris English were at 1 under on
various parts of the course.
Fan leave
the course
during the
third rain
delay during
the irst
round of the
U.S. Open
golf cham-
pionship at
Oakmont
Country Club
on Thursday,
June 16,
2016, in Oak-
mont, Pa.
AP Photo/Charlie
Riedel
2009 in a tournament that ended on
a Monday.
The irst round was suspended
for third and inal time just as
28-year-old qualiier Andrew
Landry was inishing up a dream
round in his U.S. Open debut.
Coming off two straight bogeys,
Landry drilled his approach to about
10 feet on the par-4 ninth when the
horn sounded as a violent storm
approached. He was at 3-under par.
“I was trying to get it in,” Landry
said. “But it’s hard when you’ve got
a couple of 60-footers out here. And
it’s the U.S. Open. So you’ve just
got to be patient with it.”
He wasn’t the only player to
make a quick impression in his
irst U.S. Open. On the short
list of players who inished was
Scottie Schefler, who just inished
his sophomore year at Texas and
opened with a 69.
“I feel pretty good. It hasn’t
really sunk in yet,” he said. “There’s
deinitely some scores out there to
be shot. We’re used to playing short
to all these pins, and now we’ve got
to worry about controlling our spin.
And you’ve really, really got to be
on the fairway to attack these pins
again.”
Willett, Rory McIlroy and Rickie
Fowler could not get off the course
soon enough. They played in the
same group and were a combined
14 over through 13 holes. Fowler
has missed the cut in three of his
last ive events.
It was evident immediately how
much the rain affected the course.
Denny McCarthy, the irst to hit a
shot in the 116th U.S. Open, struck
what he thought was a good approach
NFL
Seahawks expect Graham and Rawls to be ready for season
By TIM BOOTH
AP Sports Writer
RENTON, Wash. — If
Pete Carroll’s optimism
proves justiied, the Seattle
Seahawks will have Jimmy
Graham and Thomas Rawls
on the ield when the regular
season begins.
That both could be ready
for the Sept. 11 opener against
Miami is a pleasant surprise
for the Seahawks.
Carroll said Thursday
as Seattle wrapped up its
three-day mandatory mini-
camp that both are on track,
although they may not be
able to go at the beginning
of training camp in late July.
Carroll said it was a critical
six weeks coming up for the
pair as they recover from inju-
ries suffered late last season.
“They both have made
great progress,” Carroll said.
“Whether it’s the irst day of
camp or not or it’s PUP or
whatnot we’re going to see
how these six weeks play
out. It’s a really important
six weeks because these
guys now are in good enough
shape that they can get in
shape. They’ve worked their
way back in the rehab process
and now they’re preparing to
really push over.”
Graham tore a patellar
tendon in his right knee in
Seattle’s Week 12 win over
Pittsburgh last November.
Two weeks later, Rawls broke
an ankle early in a victory
over Baltimore. Rawls was
believed to have a shorter
recovery schedule, but Carroll
said Graham was actually
ahead in the rehabilitation.
Both were on the ield as
spectators during workouts
earlier in the offseason and
during minicamp this week.
“Both kids are mentally
right,” Carroll said. “They
have a great attitude about
what they’re going to do these
next six weeks so we just
have to wait and see.”
Asked speciically about
whether they would be
ready for the opener against
the Dolphins, Carroll was
conident.
“I absolutely think that,”
he said. “They would have
to incur some issues that
we can’t foresee right now
for (missing the opener) to
happen.”
Carroll
also
briely
touched on two contract situ-
ations — his own and that of
wide receiver Doug Baldwin.
Carroll said getting a
deal done with Baldwin is a
priority and that it was being
worked on “right now.”
Baldwin, entering his sixth
year in the NFL, is coming off
the best season of his career
and the three-year deal he
signed in the spring of 2014
expires after this upcoming
season. Last season, Baldwin
tied for the NFL lead with 14
touchdown receptions and
became Seattle’s irst 1,000-
yard receiver since 2007.
“It is a big deal, and it’s
a very serious negotiation as
they all are,” Carroll said.
“But he’s done an incred-
ible job for us and been a
great teammate. Hopefully,
eventually, we’ll get some-
thing worked out. I hope it
happens. The intent is to get
him signed and secured for a
good while. So we’ll see if
we can get that done.”
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