Furyk will fight the pain in US Open

THEY said he’d be lucky to make it back for the Ryder Cup in September but Jim Furyk had other ideas.

He was intent on defending the US Open Championship he captured at Olympia Fields, Chicago 12 months ago and nothing, not even a badly injured wrist that has sidelined him for the past six months, was going to stop him.

So Furyk has rolled up here at Shinnecock Hills and while he doesn't give himself much chance of retaining the title, he will tee it up here on Thursday if it is physically possible to do so and right now he believes it will be.