The defending U.S. Open champion won’t be around for the weekend. Bryson DeChambeau, the winner last year at Pinehurst who also had top-five finishes at this year’s Masters and PGA Championship, missed the cut Friday at Oakmont after a second-round 7-over 77,

Phil Mickelson, 54, admitted prior to the 2025 U.S. Open that there was a real chance it would be his final trek around the national championship, ending a 35-year quest for two elusive crowns -- the other a career grand slam -- that he never captured.

In what may have been his final appearance at the U.S. Open, legendary golfer Phil Mickelson didn’t have the opening two rounds he was hoping for at Oakmont. Of all the major tournaments Mickelson has won throughout his storied PGA Tour career,