A U.S. Open streaming and viewing guide for Friday

Friday brings the second round of play at the U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills.

On Thursday, just four players in the 156-man field finished under par, and they all tied for the lead at 1 under. Those were world No. 1 Dustin Johnson, Scott Piercy, Russell Henley, and Ian Poulter. Johnson stole the show in a group with Justin Thomas and Tiger Woods, with Woods shooting a disastrous 8-over 78 and putting himself in danger of a missed cut.

On Friday, the FS1 TV broadcast doesn’t start until 10 a.m. ET. But players are on the course as early as 6:45 a.m, and a few of them will be almost finished their rounds by the time the tournament’s on TV. Woods, Johnson, and Thomas don’t tee off from the 10th hole until 8:02 a.m., which means they’ll start out strictly on the internet. That group had an afternoon tee time on Thursday, so all of it was easy to watch on FS1 and FOX.

Streaming: Featured holes and groups begin right around 6:45 a.m. ET on the U.S. Open’s official website and the U.S. Open app. FOX Sports GO will carry the TV broadcast starting at 10 a.m. ET, and that’ll also be on the FOX Sports app.

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

Commentators: Joe Buck, Curtis Strange, Paul Azinger, Joel Klatt, and more.

Shinnecock Hills was brutal on Thursday, as all the over-par scores indicated. Most players didn’t deal well with the relatively slight but swirling winds that swept around the grounds throughout the day. A bunch of rainfall on Wednesday should’ve made for a soft, forgiving course in the morning, but players started out their days with bogeys upon bogeys.

“What’s tough about the wind here is that it’s crosswinds,” Piercy said. “It’s not really down. You don’t — it’s more of almost like 3:00s or 9:00s. You don’t get a lot of, say, 5:30s or 11:30s. You’re getting a lot of dead crosswinds. You get 25 miles, 20 miles of crosswinds, when you’re trying to hit it at an angle to a fairway, it’s hard to pick your lines and know how much that ball — I like to hit a cut. So if I got it off to the left, is that ball going to move 40 yards, 50 yards? Sometimes you’re aiming in the hay just to hit it in the fairway.”

Piercy (and the other leaders) did a better job than most putting shots in those fairways, avoiding the knee-high fescue rough that runs parallel to virtually every fairway on the course. Henley hit 13 of a possible 14 fairways, tied for the best of anyone. Piercy and Poulter both hit 11, and Johnson hit 10. Going anywhere but the fairway is big trouble.

“I just feel like if you can hit fairways out here, that’s a huge advantage,” Henley said. “The rough’s — they give you a decent amount of room to hit the fairway. So if you can hit a decent shot, it really sets up the hole. It’s really tough to play from the rough here, obviously. We’re at a U.S. Open.”