If this 10th U.S. Open at Oakmont has proved anything, it is this: The pros need their own golf ball, a few times a year.

An angry Rory McIlroy needed a birdie on the last hole of his second round to make the cut at the US Open. McIlroy said ...

Denny McCarthy (+4) labelled the five-and-a-half hour Oakmont rounds as “a punch in the face” with the search for balls in thick rough, drivable par 4s and mind scrambling reads on the greens ...

I'm playing old-man-par golf at the moment,” Adam Scott said of his eight birdies, eight bogeys and the rest pars after 36 holes at Oakmont.