2018 US Open: tee times, predictions, betting odds and live TV details

Golf’s second major of the year takes place
at Shinnecock Hills

One-Minute Read

The second golf major of the year starts on Thursday at
Shinnecock Hills in Southampton, New York, and 2016 winner Johnson
leads an all-star field that includes fellow Americans Justin
Thomas, Rickie Fowler, Jordan Spieth, Tiger Woods and defending
champion Brooks Koepka. 

European stars Justin Rose, Rory McIlroy, Jon Rahm and
Henrik Stenson will aim to stop the Americans from winning on home
soil, as will Australia’s Jason Day and Japan’s Hideki
Matsuyama.

Johnson is looking to make history at Shinnecock Hills by
becoming the first player to take the US Open title having won the
previous week. He told Sky Sports: “Why not be the first one to do it?
I don’t know why it hasn’t happened but the US Open is a tough,
tough place to go and win. 

“I did win in 2016, so I know what it takes and I’m going
to have to play a lot like I did this week [in Memphis] if I want
to win [this week].”

In Thursday’s first round Johnson tees off at 6.47pm (UK
time) and is grouped with Thomas and Woods. See below for the full
list of first-round tee times.

118th US Open

• What: the second golf major of the year 
• When: 14-17 June 2018 
• Where: Shinnecock Hills, Southampton, New York 
• Official website: usopen.com

How to watch on TV

Sky
Sports Golf will broadcast live from Shinnecock Hills. Thursday
and Friday’s coverage starts at 1.30pm (UK time) with the featured
groups. Saturday and Sunday’s coverage will start at
4.30pm. 

Predictions: who will win the US
Open?

Josh Sens, Golf.com: “Justin Rose. How can you not like
Rose on a stout set-up like this is bound to be? Always a dead-eye
iron player, he’s been in great form this year with two wins
already and a sixth-place finish at the Memorial.”

Jeff Ritter, Golf.com: “Jason Day wins it. He’s healthy,
he’s focused and he’s already won twice this year. The ideal combo
of tee-box power and steady putting, he’s peaking again. Shinny is
the perfect venue for him to claim major title No.2.”

Payton Matthews, Sports Interaction: “Take Mickelson and McIlroy
for top tens, but the winner is Henrik Stenson. The Swede has
finished in the top 25 in his past six PGA Tour events and was T5
at the Masters. He leads the Tour in greens in regulation
percentage, always a key statistic at the US Open.”

2018 US Open betting odds

Latest prices according to Oddschecker, as of 12 June.

To win the 2018 US Open:

• Dustin Johnson: 8/1 
• Justin Rose: 16/1 
• Rory McIlroy: 16/1 
• Justin Thomas: 16/1 
• Jason Day: 18/1 
• Rickie Fowler: 20/1 
• Jordan Spieth: 22/1 
• Jon Rahm: 22/1 
• Tiger Woods: 22/1 
• Brooks Koepka: 25/1 
• Henrik Stenson: 35/1 
• Hideki Matsuyama: 35/1 
• Phil Mickelson: 40/1

US Open first-round tee times

All times UK, players are US unless stated and (am) is for
amateurs.

Starting from hole one:

• 11.45am: Harold Varner, Matthieu Pavon (Fra), Scott
  Piercy 
• 11.56am: Michael Putnam, Scott Gregory (Eng), Will
  Zalatoris 
• 12.07pm: Brendan Steele, Chesson Hadley, (am) Harry Ellis
  (Eng) 
• 12.18pm: Jhonattan Vegas (Ven), Dylan Frittelli (Rsa), (am)
  Doug Ghim 
• 12.29pm: Louis Oosthuizen (Rsa), Jimmy Walker, Justin Rose
  (Eng) 
• 12.40pm: Bubba Watson, Jason Day (Aus), Brooks
  Koepka 
• 12.51pm: Tyrrell Hatton (Eng), Danny Willett (Eng), Ian Poulter
  (Eng) 
• 1.02pm: Kevin Chappell, Andrew Johnston (Eng), Daniel
  Berger 
• 1.13pm: Bryson DeChambeau, Matthew Fitzpatrick (Eng), Matt
  Kuchar 
• 1.24pm: Thorbjorn Olesen (Den), Shubhankar Sharma (Ind),
  Patrick Rodgers 
• 1.35pm: Lanto Griffin, Tom Lewis (Eng), (am) Jacob
  Bergeron 
• 1.46pm: (am) Kristoffer Reitan (Nor), (am) Luis Gagne (Crc),
  Cole Miller 
• 1.57pm: Mickey DeMorat, (am) Tyler Strafaci, Calum Hill
  (Sco) 
• 5.30pm: Sam Burns, Brian Gay, Dean Burmester (Rsa) 
• 5.41pm: (am) Chun An Yu (Tpe), Wenchong Liang (Chn), Ryan Evans
  (Eng) 
• 5.52pm: Russell Henley, Aaron Wise, Peter Uihlein 
• 6.03pm: Tony Finau, Luke List, Gary Woodland 
• 6.14pm: Sergio Garcia (Esp), Jon Rahm (Esp), Rafa Cabrera Bello
  (Esp) 
• 6.25pm: Tommy Fleetwood (Eng), Francesco Molinari (Ita), Alex
  Noren (Swe) 
• 6.36pm: Cameron Smith (Aus), Kyle Stanley, Pat Perez 
• 6.47pm: Justin Thomas, Dustin Johnson, Tiger Woods 
• 6.58pm: Haotong Li (Chn), Si Woo Kim (Kor), Kiradech
  Aphibarnrat (Tha) 
• 7.09pm: Jason Dufner, (am) Braden Thornberry, Brandt
  Snedeker 
• 7.20pm: (am) Ryan Lumsden (Sco), James Morrison (Eng), Rikuya
  Hoshino (Jpn) 
• 7.31pm: Cameron Wilson, (am) Will Grimmer, (am) Philip
  Barbaree 
• 7.42pm: (am) Rhett Rasmussen, Michael Hebert, Michael
  Block

Starting from hole ten

• 11.45am: Scott Stallings, Sebastian Munoz (Col), Matthew
  Southgate (Eng) 
• 11.56am: Trey Mullinax, (am) Matt Parziale, Jason Scrivener
  (Aus) 
• 12.07pm: David Bransdon (Aus), Eric Axley, Tyler
  Duncan 
• 12.18pm: (am) Garrett Rank (Can), Mackenzie Hughes (Can), Aaron
  Baddeley (Aus) 
• 12.29pm: Alexander Levy (Fra), Brian Harman, Patrick
  Cantlay 
• 12.40pm: Paul Casey (Eng), Satoshi Kodaira (Jpn), Branden Grace
  (Rsa) 
• 12.51pm: Zach Johnson, Charl Schwartzel (Rsa), Patrick
  Reed 
• 1.02pm: Rory McIlroy (NIrl), Jordan Spieth, Phil
  Mickelson 
• 1.13pm: Hideki Matsuyama (Jpn), Marc Leishman (Aus), Rickie
  Fowler 
• 1.24pm: Charles Howell, Bill Haas, Charley Hoffman 
• 1.35pm: Sungjae Im (Kor), Russell Knox (Sco), Matthew Wallace
  (Eng) 
• 1.46pm: (am) Shintaro Ban, Sung Joon Park (Kor), Tim Wilkinson
  (Nzl) 
• 1.57pm: Dylan Meyer, Sulman Raza, Chris Naegel 
• 5.30pm: Matthew Jones (Aus), Ryan Fox (Nzl), Shota Akiyoshi
  (Jpn) 
• 5.41pm: Paul Waring (Eng), (a) Theo Humphrey, Ted Potter Jr
  (USA) 
• 5.52pm: Richy Werenski, Roberto Castro, Ollie
  Schniederjans 
• 6.03pm: (am) Noah Goodwin, Richie Ramsay (Sco), Kenny
  Perry 
• 6.14pm: Keegan Bradley, Xander Schauffele, Emiliano Grillo
  (Arg) 
• 6.25pm: Lucas Glover, Webb Simpson, Graeme McDowell
  (NIrl) 
• 6.36pm: Ernie Els (Rsa), Steve Stricker, Jim Furyk 
• 6.47pm: Henrik Stenson (Swe), Adam Scott (Aus), Martin Kaymer
  (Ger) 
• 6.58pm: Kevin Kisner, Ross Fisher (Eng), Adam Hadwin
  (Can) 
• 7.09pm: Shane Lowry (Ire), Chez Reavie, Byeong Hun An
  (Kor) 
• 7.20pm: Lucas Herbert (Aus), Brian Stuard, Stewart
  Hagestad 
• 7.31pm: (am) Franklin Huang, Sebastian Vazquez (Mex), Michael
  Miller 
• 7.42pm: Christopher Babcock, (am) Timothy Wiseman, David
  Gazzolo