Matthew Wolff was disqualified from the Masters in April for signing an incorrect scorecard. Two weeks later, he missed the cut at the Zurich. He then took time away from the game, notably becoming the only golfer in the top 100 of the World Golf Rankings to miss this summer’s PGA Championship.
So of course after that turbulent stretch of rough golf (and, more crucially, the stretch where he was playing no professional golf), Wolff finds himself in the hunt at the 2021 U.S. Open.
Wolff fired an opening-round 1-under 70 on Thursday in his first competitive action since April in a rollercoaster Round 1 in which he made only five pars but made up for it with eight birdies to stay near the top of the leaderboard through 18 holes.