Raymond Carlin III-USA TODAY Sports

U.S. Open at a glance: Los Angeles Country Club opens doors for U.S. Open

Originally posted on Field Level Media | Last updated 6/12/23

PGA TOUR

LAST TOURNAMENT: RBC Canadian Open (Nick Taylor)

THIS WEEK: U.S. Open, Los Angeles, June 15-18

Course: The Los Angeles Country Club, North Course (Par 70, 7,421 yards)

Defending Champion: Matt Fitzpatrick

FedEx Cup leader: Jon Rahm

HOW TO FOLLOW

TV: Thursday-Friday, 9:40 a.m.-1 p.m. (Peacock); 1-8 p.m. ET (USA), 8-11 p.m. (NBC); Saturday, 1-11 p.m. (NBC); Sunday, 12-1 p.m. (Peacock), 1-10 p.m. (NBC)

Twitter: @USOpenGolf

BEST BETS

Scottie Scheffler (+700 at BetMGM) has 16 consecutive finishes of T12 or better, including a win at this year's The Players and T2 at the Masters. He finished T2 to Fitzpatrick last year.

Jon Rahm (+1000) won the 2021 U.S. Open and captured his second major at this year's Masters.

Brooks Koepka (+1100) is already a two-time U.S. Champion. In this year's first two majors, he finished T2 at the Masters and won his third PGA Championship.

Viktor Hovland (+1600) battled Koepka down the stretch on Sunday at the PGA and followed it up with a win at the Memorial. He's the only player to finish in the top 10 in each of the past three majors.

Max Homa (+2800) set the course record at the Los Angeles Country Club with a 61 in the first round of the 2013 Pac-12 Championship.

NOTES

The 156-player field will be cut to the low 60 players and ties following 36 holes.

This is the first major championship to be held at the Los Angeles Country Club, and it will be contested on the North Course. The first edition of the Los Angeles Open (now The Genesis Invitational) was played on the North Course in 1926 and was held there four additional times.

Jon Rahm will make another attempt to become the first player to win five times in a season since Justin Thomas in 2016-17. He's also attempting to be the first winner of multiple majors in a year since Jordan Spieth in 2015.

Matt Fitzpatrick is trying to become the first player to successfully defend a U.S. Open title since Brooks Koepka in 2018.

Rory McIlroy has 18 top-10s in majors since claiming the most recent of his four career majors at the 2014 PGA Championship. This will be his 33rd start in a major since that victory.

No. 4 Patrick Cantlay, a Los Angeles-area native, is the highest-ranked player in this week's field who has yet to win a major title.