U.S. Open Round 2 updates: Schauffele and Morikawa charging, Clark steady on top

SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. – The 126th U.S. Open is back on track.

After a fog delay pushed back opening-round tee times and caused play to spill over into Friday morning, 50 players returned to Shinnecock Hills Golf Course at dawn to complete their opening round. Those players were greeted by clear skies, and second-round tee times have been pushed back only 15 minutes later than originally intended to compensate for the original delay.

Wyndham Clark officially closed out first-round leader honors before many fans sat down for breakfast, and we’ve got a full day of championship golf ahead of us as the best in the world take another crack at a famed but treacherous venue.

Read below for updates all day long from our on-site team at Shinnecock Hills.

12:00 p.m.: The biggest charge up the leaderboard this morning came from two-time major winner Collin Morikawa. Morikawa opened with a 3-over 73 but is back in the mix in a big way, as a birdie on No. 15 took him to 5-under on the round and 2-under overall. Morikawa has now made six birdies in a 13-hole stretch that began at No. 3 and sits among a tie for third, five shots behind Wyndham Clark. Morikawa won earlier this year at Pebble Beach but has battled back injuries since, although his decision to skip the Memorial Tournament earlier this month was because he and his wife recently welcomed the birth of their first child.

11:30 a.m.: These are the U.S. Open conditions we were expecting. The wind is whipping, the greens are fast and the scores are ballooning. Wyndham Clark has impressively remained at 6-under, but almost everyone else is moving backward. Rory McIlroy was hovering around the top-10 earlier today as he sat in the clubhouse at 1-under. He's up to T4 now as those above him are dropping like flies. William Mouw just made double bogey. Matt Fitzpatrick has two bogeys in his last three holes. Dustin Johnson is three-over in his last two holes. Carnage is here.

10:55 a.m.: We're seeing some squirrely short misses now. The wind is starting to kick up, and the greens are firming up, and that's created some delicate and nervy putts. Wyndham Clark missed the shorty at the ninth, Gary Woodland missed one at the 10th and Justin Thomas missed one at the first hole. All made bogey. This wave is starting to feel the brunt of Shinnecock in conditions.

10:40 a.m.: The first mistake from Wyndham Clark comes at the ninth, a three-putt bogey that cuts his lead to two strokes. Clark started steadily this morning but had to battle to save some pars at the sixth and eighth holes, and it catches up to him here. There hasn't been a massive shift on the leaderboard yet, though we've seen some movement among a few of the top stars. Justin Thomas and Xander Schauffele both just shot 3-under 32 on their front nines to move to 2-under overall. The wind is stronger than what this wave felt for much of yesterday, but still considerably calmer than what the Thursday morning wave experienced. Right now it's looking like they got the way better side of the draw. Let's see if Clark and others can capitalize and put a low number on the board that the rest of the field will need to chase.

8:30 a.m.: It was just announced that Joaquin Niemann was assessed a two-stroke penalty for throwing his club on the sixth hole of his first round yesterday. Niemann made a septuple bogey, carding an 11 on the par-4. More info here.

8:00 a.m.: The opening round is officially in the books at Shinnecock Hills. A total of 16 players broke par, led by Wyndham Clark who built a two-shot lead with a 6-under 64. There was only one bogey-free scorecard in the opening round, as 2021 U.S. Open champ Jon Rahm carded 16 pars to go with two birdies. No player completed a bogey-free round in 2018, so Rahm's was the first bogey-free effort in a Shinnecock U.S. Open since the second round in 2004.

7:00 a.m.: With pars on each of his first two holes Friday morning, Wyndham Clark officially took first round leader honors at the U.S. Open.

Clark stormed out to an overnight lead, thanks in large part to a run of two birdies and an eagle from Nos. 3-5 in relatively calm conditions Thursday evening. He had two holes remaining in his opening round when play was halted because of darkness, but he returned at 6:35 a.m. to put the finishing touches on a 6-under 64 that gave him a two-shot cushion over Dustin Johnson. The score matches his opening tally in 2023 at Los Angeles Country Club, when he went on to win, but falls one shot short of the Shinnecock course record set by Tommy Fleetwood in 2018.

6:35 a.m. ET: Here are a few of the marquee pairings for the second round (all times ET).

• 7:45 a.m: Matt Fitzpatrick, Viktor Hovland, Bryson DeChambeau
• 7:56 a.m.: Wyndham Clark, Gary Woodland, Dustin Johnson
• 8:07 a.m.*: Xander Schauffele, Hideki Matsuyama, Justin Thomas
• 8:29 a.m.: Jordan Spieth, Justin Rose, Jon Rahm
• 1:40 p.m.*: Brooks Koepka, Chris Gotterup, Cameron Young
• 2:02 p.m.: Rory McIlroy, Ludvig Åberg, Tommy Fleetwood
• 2:24 p.m.*: Scottie Scheffler, J.J. Spaun, Mason Howell