Golf professionals Rickie Fowler and Xander Schauffele started the 123rd US Open with record rounds.
The Americans only needed 62 shots each for the par 70 course at the Los Angeles Country Club. Never before in the history of the tournament had a player used so few strokes for 18 holes.
Fowler and Schauffele coped brilliantly from the start with the field, which was unfamiliar to almost all players and on which a PGA tournament was last held in 1940, and initially had a clear lead. However, the majority of the competitors were not yet in the clubhouse at that time.
The previous US Open record was 63 shots, set between 1973 and 2018 by six different players on different courts. Another highlight on Thursday was Frenchman Matthieu Pavon, who managed a hole-in-one on the par-3 15th hole.
Also in Los Angeles is Martin Kaymer, who is contesting his first major tournament in more than a year.