00:00Welcome back to the early line here on SportsGrid.
00:02As we get ready to wrap up this first hour of the show,
00:04we thought we'd have live golf updates for you
00:06from Shinnecock Hills at the U.S. Open
00:08that they have suspended play.
00:10So as of right now,
00:11they're into about 15 minutes of suspension due to fog.
00:14The next update will come at 8 a.m. Eastern.
00:17As of right now, suspension,
00:20and certainly, actually longer than that.
00:22It looks like about an hour of time.
00:24It feels like we've been on this show for an hour,
00:25but I thought we had live updates.
00:27I guess not.
00:28We'll see, folks.
00:29The longer this goes,
00:30the more we're headed toward a Sunday night finish,
00:32maybe even a Monday finish.
00:34We'll see.
00:34This is not what, of course, the U.S. Open wants.
00:36Meanwhile, the USGA and R&A,
00:38alongside the PGA Tour and DP World Tour,
00:40announced Wednesday that the golf ball rollback
00:42will now be implemented as a single-date change
00:45in January 2030,
00:48scrapping the previous plan
00:50that would have affected elite players in 2028
00:52marks the first formal acknowledgement
00:54by the PGA Tour and World Tour
00:56that golf has a distance problem
00:58through both tours have raised concerns
00:59that the updated testing standard
01:01may not achieve the desired result.
01:04Pointed to Cam Young's recently playing a ball
01:06that would already conform to a rollback standard
01:09without losing any meaningful distance.
01:11Meanwhile, Scotty Scheffler is back on the course.
01:14We'll tee off later today.
01:15He spoke with the media yesterday
01:17on trying to accomplish the Grand Slam.
01:20I mean, that's a good question.
01:21I think, you know, it would definitely bring, you know,
01:24more eyeballs to the sport,
01:25which I think is always a good thing.
01:26You know, I think golf is a great game.
01:29I think it's something that everybody should have a chance
01:31to be introduced to.
01:32I think you learn a lot about yourself.
01:34I think you learn a lot of life lessons
01:36through the game of golf.
01:37And, you know, I have some of my best friends
01:39in the whole world I know just from playing golf
01:41and playing golf with them
01:42and growing up with those types of guys.
01:44And, yeah, this game obviously means a lot to me as a player.
01:48And it's been a huge part of my life for a long time.
01:51And it's something that I would love
01:52for more people to get introduced to.
01:56Scotty Scheffler, Joe, would certainly be the favorite
01:58at the U.S. Open as he is every single tournament playing now.
02:01The last time we had a favorite like this running
02:03was a guy who was 15 to 1 in John Rahm.
02:06Now, he hasn't teed off and neither has Scotty.
02:08As you can see there, here is the current leaderboard
02:10at the U.S. Open.
02:11We have no action there because of the weather.
02:14But going into this,
02:15I know that there are a lot of varying opinions.
02:17But honestly, Joe, not a lot of them.
02:20And I didn't see a single person predict
02:22on social media or anywhere else
02:23that we would have a suspension during this tournament.
02:25I understood that it could be slick
02:28and the scores could be down a little bit.
02:31But generally speaking,
02:32you know how the U.S. Open plays, Joe.
02:33Usually your winner is like 20 under, 18 under.
02:35I don't think we're going to get that this time around
02:37if the weather holds like this.
02:40Well, it's interesting.
02:41The U.S. Open is, especially at Shinnecock,
02:44the history here is, yeah, one under, two under might win.
02:48The problem is that's usually with everyone going off the,
02:52you know, hole number one.
02:54What's going to happen here because of this delay
02:56is they're likely going to be sending guys off the back nine,
03:00the front nine.
03:01They might go to foursome.
03:03So as long as we don't have any other disruptions along the way,
03:08they should be able to get back on track,
03:11guys making the cut, and then head into the weekend.
03:14But they got some work to do with this delay now
03:16with the amount of guys that are in this tournament.
03:19Yeah.
03:19In fact, everybody that has teed off,
03:23and again, only, let's see,
03:25a dozen of the players right now at the U.S. Open
03:28have completed two holes.
03:30That's it.
03:30There isn't a single player out of the 15 or 20-so players
03:35that have birdied their first hole.
03:38In fact, everyone's either even or one over par,
03:42and Hamilton Coleman, who is a new name for me, Joe,
03:46he is two over par to start this.
03:48But that's the dynamic here going into the weekend.
03:50Yeah.
03:51The weather is a little tricky here right now,
03:54but better it happens now on a Thursday
03:57because they still have some time.
03:59It does look like it's going to clear up a little bit later,
04:01but then they'll likely just, you know,
04:03they'll send off foursomes,
04:05and they'll go off the front and the back
04:07until they can figure it out.
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