There have been grey skies and colourful umbrellas, scoring records and big-name casualties, and we might even get a new, unexpected winner on Monday. There are many reasons that are likely to make the 109th US Open a memorable one. Unfortunately for Jeev Milkha Singh and his fans, the 37-year-old got a stat at Bethpage Black that he would like to forget in a hurry. This was the first time Jeev has missed a cut at the US Open in four appearances.
Jeev, playing with a rib injury and part of the unlucky half of players who had to splash around on soaked fairways and soggy greens for a pretty large part of both their first two rounds, only managed an 11-over. The cut came at four-over.
Jeev had spoken about how the injury had caused him to chip out every time he got into the rough and he said after the second round that he was also losing a lot of distance on his drives. Jeev said it was very likely that he would have given the tournament a miss had it not been a Major, but he's vowed to play a tournament only if he's 100 per cent from here on.
It might also mean a rethink on the number of tournaments Jeev plays each year. He's famous for playing more number of tournaments than most other players, plus travelling all around the world in doing that. (OWGR tells us he's played 71 over a two-year period. And last year, Jeev's four title wins came in Austria, Singapore, Japan and Japan).
He's definitely not playing either the PGA Tour's Travelers Championship or the European Tour's German Open this week as he tries to get healthy for the Scottish Open and of course, the British Open in mid-July.
"I am taking a week or two off. I am not going to touch the clubs for a few days and give my muscle a full rest. That's the only way it will heal. I have half the season left and there is so much more to come and I want to be ready for it all," Jeev said.
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