America wants McIlroy to avoid Morgan’s fate

WERE the circumstances any different, the question could be asked of young Rory McIlroy: Have you ever heard of Gil Morgan? Cold that it would be, the question has merit in light of the performance McIlroy has scripted through two days of the 111th US Open.

For background purposes, Morgan is for the most part an afterthought in PGA Tour annals, a guy who won a handful of tournaments that have been long forgotten, but known mostly to only friends and family.

Oh, and for trivia buffs, Morgan is the first player to ever push double-digits under par in a US Open. It happened in 1992 at Pebble Beach when, early in the third round, Morgan got to 10 under. Morgan had opened 66-69 that year to seemingly set in motion a runaway, only that never materialised.