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I'm pretty anti social so didn't do much hand shaking anyway. Play golf regularly, and at the end of the round it's usually a fist bump, which tbf is a progression from the horrendous elbow bump of last year. At this rate we'll be shaking hands again by 2023.

Root turned to Dan Lawrence, and he's come up trumps getting Young to nibble at one which results in a bat pad catch to a diving Pope at short leg. 229-3 at the close.

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Not really sure how New Zealand have got through since tea with just one more wicket down, Broad and Anderson both had terrific spells that deserved more.

100 up for the Kiwis with one wicket down, Conway and Young looking very comfortable at the moment.

Wood has bowled a couple more overs, looks a bit more fluid than his first two.

England have a major problem here as there is obviously something not right with Wood who has only bowled 2 overs so far. He is still on the field so whatever it is can't be a serious injury, but having gone with 4 seamers the other 3 are having to pick up some extra work. Root about to have a bowl himself, and he has previous for finding wickets when needed. 81-1 at the moment.

8 for Friday, organ and trophy wrong.

Kiwis have let this slide a bit. England 258-7 at the close with Lawrence on 67 and Stone and Wood chipping in with some handy runs.

30 years since Payne Stewart's first US Open win, he was one of the few Americans at the time that seemed to be a decent bloke. https://www.bunkered.co.uk/golf-news/the-final-flight-the-story-of-the-crash-that-killed-payne-stewart

The second season of the Movistar team doc is on Netflix now, the lack of tactical nous in the grand tours is astounding.

Bracey certainly won't be around for long if he keeps getting out playing a shot like he did today. 193-6, Lawrence and Stone trying to hang on for a while.

9 for Thursday, monarch wrong.

Sad news, condolences to his family and friends.

8 for Monday 8 for Tuesday 9 for Wednesday

Me too with Van Rooyen. [emoji1787]

Not much info about why it took so long, but here are the 16 who made it through from Columbus. Harrington, Dufner, Bradley and Fowler all missed out by a shot.

John Hardie retiring at the end of the season. Looked great when he first arrived on these shores but never maintained that level.

Danny Willett having a tough few months. He had Covid in March then had to have a troublesome Wisdom tooth removed in April. He was playing at the Memorial at the weekend and an abdominal pain kept him awake on Saturday night. He played on Sunday and ended up 26th. The pain turned out to be appendicitis, and he had surgery yesterday to remove his appendix and had a hernia op at the same time.

I follow Monday Q Info on Twitter ( @acaseofthegolf1 ) He was at the event at Springfield, it's a crazy day with some great stories. He's got dozens of tweets from yesterday that are worth a read. This was one about the strength of field at Columbus.

Seems to be safely in, he's T5th on a total of 9 under and a few shots inside the cut off mark. Fowler a few shots the other side of the line. Final round scores not all posted yet.

I had my first dose of AZ in April, so have been checking the NHS website to see if my next appointment had come up. It was there at the start of last week but didn't suit, so I changed it to a date, time and venue that did suit. Rechecked it today, I now have 2 appointments for my second dose. [emoji85]

Some big names battling it out at final qualifying for the US Open. Rickie Fowler is in the field at Columbus, Ohio, and he has plenty of other familiar names for company, others in the field there include... Harrington Van Rooyen Reavie Tringale Bradley Cabrera Bello Laird Schwartzel & Vegas. 16 spots up for grabs at that event, 8 other events on the go with varying numbers of places available. 36 holes to be played at all of them. https://www.usopen.com/qualifying/final.html

Robinson will miss at least the second test as he has been suspended pending an investigation into his old offensive tweets.