US Open 2023 leaderboard: Latest updates with Rory McIlroy chasing Rickie Fowler and Xander Schauffele in second round

Six-time major winner Phil Mickelson has also started his second round from the first tee box. He shot one under yesterday and is therefore still in this tournament.

He finds the sand and the left fairway bunker with his tee shot.

Nick Hardy slides in a birdie three on the second to hold back a missed shot on the first. He is back at even par for the round.

Just behind him, Joaquin Niemann finds the rough from the tee on one and has to lay down before his chip on the green.

As he waits to get going in his second round at Los Angeles Country Club, here’s a look at how Rory McIlroy has improved his game during the opening rounds of the majors.

Between 2017 and 2022, McIlroy’s scoring average in the opening round of majors was 72.45 and +27 overall. Since the 2022 Masters, he is a combined -18 in opening rounds of majors, with a scoring average of 67.67.

Colombia’s Nico Echavarria starts his second round with a bogey on the first hole. He is out of position after his second shot and struggles to make up.

In the end he settled for a double bogey seven and a hole that was easy to score on yesterday. Is this a sign that today’s score might not be as low as Thursday’s?

Xander Schauffele predicted the US Open could get “ugly” after a historic day of scoring on the opening day at Los Angeles Country Club.

Schauffele matched Ryder Cup teammate Rickie Fowler’s eight-under-par 62 to record the lowest score in US Open history and equal the lowest in any men’s major championship, set by Branden Grace in the 2017 Open.

The duo led by five shots after the morning wave was completed on Thursday, but by the end of the day were just two ahead of Dustin Johnson and Wyndham Clark, with Rory McIlroy and Brian Harman another stroke back.

Dustin Johnson reflected on his first round 64, which sees him just two shots off the lead. He said:

“I drove it really well, that’s the key out here, you have to play for the fairway, I played a lot of really good shots. Played really strong.

“I like the golf course, it’s really good for me, but you just have to drive the ball well.”

Ricky Fowler and Xander Schauffele led a string of low scores in Thursday’s opening round, with a few records coming and going. Here are a few of those that were destroyed during the first round:

• The lowest opening round in US Open history (62).
• The lowest first-round scoring average in US Open history (71.38).
• The sixth-lowest first-round scoring average in major championship history (71.38).

This is how things look after the first round:

-3 DeChambeau, Scheffler, SW Kim, English, Barjon, Bennett

Coverage of the second round has just begun with a few of the big name stars taking to the field early today. Rory McIlroy tees off at 4.24pm and starts on the 10th hole.

Dution Johnson (16.02) and Jordan Speith (16.13) start a little earlier.

Xander Schauffele, meanwhile, will start his second round at 21.54, where he plays alongside Jon Rahm, while Rickie Fowler starts at 21.32.

Rickie Fowler and Xander Schauffele tied the lowest score in men’s major championship history with stunning rounds of 62 on the opening day of the 123rd US Open.

Fowler took advantage of ideal overcast conditions for the early starters to fire 10 birdies and two bogeys at Los Angeles Country Club, matching the mark set by Branden Grace in the 2017 Open Championship at Royal Birkdale.

It was also the lowest score ever in a US Open, with England’s Tommy Fleetwood making the latest of six previous 63s in the final round in 2018.

Yet Fowler amazingly held that distinction on his own for less than 30 minutes as Schauffele, playing two groups behind, carded eight birdies in a bogey-free 62 of his own.