OAKMONT, Pa. — Rory McIlroy made it interesting, but he will see the weekend. Defending champion Bryson DeChambeau, however, will not. Neither will Phil Mickelson.
The top 60 players and ties made the cut at Oakmont. That came in at +7.
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That number — +7 — is one shot higher than the last time the U.S. Open was played at Oakmont (2016), when the cut line fell at +6.
McIlroy, with a birdie at No. 18, got himself to +6. So he’s safely made it in. DeChambeau, with a brutal 77 on Friday, finished at +10 and will not defend his title.
Mickelson was comfortably inside the cut line, but a pair of double bogeys on his back nine torpedoed his round and possibly has last chance ever at a U.S. Open. If this is, indeed, his last U.S. Open, it’s a brutal way to go. He was even par on his round through 14 holes, but he doubled 15 and 17, putting him on the wrong side of the cut at +8.
Others who will miss the cut: Ludvig Åberg, Wyndham Clark, Tommy Fleetwood, Dustin Johnson, Gary Woodland, Patrick Cantlay, Justin Rose, Shane Lowry and Justin Thomas.
To see all the players who made and missed the cut, click here for the complete live leaderboard.
