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How to watch the U.S. Open on Friday

It’s the second round at Shinnecock Hills, following a hard Thursday.

U.S. Open - Round One
U.S. Open - Round One
Photo by Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images

The U.S. Open moves to its second round on Friday at Shinnecock Hills in the Hamptons. Four players were tied for the lead at 1 stroke under par after Thursday, including world No. 1 Dustin Johnson. Tiger Woods was nine strokes off the lead after shooting an awful 78.

The championship has a 156-man field. It’ll get chopped by a little more than half after Friday’s round. The U.S. Open cut line eliminates everyone but the top 60 leaderboard positions and ties. There’s no special protection for players within 10 shots of the lead.

Woods finished Thursday tied for 102nd, meaning he needs a great Friday if he wants to continue to play this course through the weekend. He wasn’t the only player to have a brutal day, of course. Shinnecock’s gusting winds and long rough baffled dozens of his peers, too. Just four players — the co-leaders at 1 under — finished in red numbers.

The course’s two par-5 holes, Nos. 5 and 16, each played to just better than a par average. But every other hole leaned toward bogeys, with the worst hole being the 519-yard, par-4 14th. The field was 126 over par on that hole. Eight players somehow birdied it.

Here’s how to catch all the action on Friday.

U.S. Open TV schedule and streaming for Friday

All times are Eastern.

TV: 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m on FS1, 4:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m. on FOX.

Streaming: Featured groups and holes starting around 7 a.m. on at usopen.com and the U.S. Open app, with FOX Sports GO picking up the TV broadcast at 10 a.m.

Commentators: Joe Buck, Paul Azinger, Curtis Strange, and more on FOX’s team.

Streaming will be the best option to watch much of Woods’ Friday round. He tees off at 8:02 a.m. ET in his group with Johnson and Justin Thomas. Sometime around when that group makes the nine-hole turn, their round will be on actual TV airwaves.

The afternoon blockbuster group that will have its whole round on TV is the one featuring Jordan Spieth, Rory McIlroy, and Phil Mickelson, who tee off at 1:47 p.m.

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