Live U.S Open 2011--Rory McIlroy breaks records at Congressional

The 2011 U.S. Open Championship is coming live this week from June 13-19, 2011, and now is the time to get in touch. Regardless of whether you're going to be lucky enough to get there in person or will likely be enjoying it from the comfort of your home or perhaps a local club from the comforts of your television like most of us, knowing the program will help you forestall missing a minute of the actions.

There is and should be a formula to winning the U.S. Open. Make a par, and take advantage of birdies when they make themselves available. If you try to chase birdies, you end up with bogies, and you find yourself at the bottom of the leaderboard. Unlike other tournaments where par isn't a bad score, par is a good score at the U.S. Open. Rory McIlroy will be a perfect example for these on, so far on his back nine, Rory is just sticking to the fairways, hitting the greens in regulation, and taking pars. 

Golf-U.S. Open second round leaderboard:

June 17 (Reuters) - Second round leaderboard from the U.S.  
Open on the par-71 Blue Course at Congressional Country Club in  
Bethesda, Maryland, Friday (U.S. unless stated): 
 -11 Rory McIlroy (Britain)            18 holes 
  -3 Yang Yong-eun (South Korea)  
  -2 Robert Garrigus                   18 

Sergio Garcia (Spain)             18 

Zach Johnson                      18 

Louis Oosthuizen (South Africa) 

Ryan Palmer  

 

Golf-U.S. Open second round scores:

June 17 (Reuters) - Leading second round scores from the U.S. Open on the par-71 Blue Course at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Maryland, on Friday (U.S. unless stated, a- denotes amateur): 131 Rory McIlroy (Britain) 65 66 140 Robert Garrigus 70 70, Sergio Garcia (Spain) 69 71 141 Kim Kyung-tae (South Korea) 69 72, Alvaro Quiros (Spain) 70 71 142 a-Patrick Cantlay 75 67, John Senden (Australia) 70 72, Noh Seung-yul (South Korea) 72 70 143 Bo Van Pelt 76 67, Peter Hanson (Sweden) 72 71, Phil Mickelson 74 69 144 Steve Stricker 75 69, Edoardo Molinari (Italy) 74 70 145 Alexandre Rocha (Brazil) 69 76, Michael Putnam 74 71 146 Retief Goosen Matteo Manassero Dustin Johnson 75 71 147 Scott Hend (Australia) 69 78, Stephen Gallacher (Britain) 73 74, Martin LairdBen Crane 77 71, Mark Wilson 78 70 149 Andres Gonzales 79 70, Jason Dufner 75 74, David Toms 74 75, Francesco Molinari (Italy) 75 74 150 Scott Barr (Australia) 75 75, Miguel Angel Jimenez (Spain) 77 73 151 Bubba Dickerson 70 81 152 Robert DinwiddieMaarten Lafeber  Geoffrey Sisk 77 78 157 Ty Tryon 84 73 158 Matt Richardson (Britain) 77 81 (South Africa) 73 73, (Italy) 74 72, (Britain) 73 74 148 (Britain) 78 74, a-Pan Cheng-tsung (Taiwan) 74 78 153 (Netherlands) 79 74 155

"What are the odds that Rory will step up and play great? Awesome player, but just can't figure out how he goes that far off his game...but hey, he did it!!"