Golf-Amateur upstages pros to take clubhouse lead at U.S. Open

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The unlikely name of Scottie Scheffler was the clubhouse leader after the first day at the rain hit U.S. Open on Thursday. Granted, only nine players completed the first round on a day of frustrating weather delays at Oakmont Country Club outside Pittsburgh, but that does not detract from the achievement by the 19-year-old amateur from Dallas. Scheffler, a former U.S. Junior Amateur champion, only made it into the championship by the skin of his teeth, surviving a playoff at sectional qualifying.

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