There may have been no better microcosm to the opening round at (yesterday’s) U.S. Open than Tiger Woods playing the first hole.
Teeing off in the afternoon wave, plenty of players had put up big numbers already, including Sean Gregory’s 92. (92!) Woods found the fairway with an iron, and then, as the broadcast warned of the danger in going long, Woods airmailed the green:
Oh, and it got worse from there: