The Latest: Jason Day to try playing after bout of vertigo

UNIVERSITY PLACE, Wash. (AP) — The latest from the U.S. Open (all times local):

12 p.m.

Jason Day will try to play the third round of the U.S. Open on Friday after collapsing with a case of vertigo on his final hole of the second round.

Day was walking to his ball in a greenside bunker when he toppled over. He was still shaky as he finished the hole and received treatment from medical staffers at his on-site motorhome.

Day was 2 under for the championship, three shots off the lead. He tees off with Kevin Kisner at 1:55 p.m. local time.

Day has had trouble with vertigo in the past. The condition forced him to withdraw from the World Golf Championship event at Firestone last year and from the Byron Nelson last month.

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11:35 a.m.

Sergio Garcia is not exactly feeling chummy with some of the fans at Chambers Bay.

Playing early Saturday after barely making the cut, the fiery Spaniard has been pestered most of the way around the course in the third round of the U.S. Open.

At the par-4 fourth, where he left his approach shot well short of the green, a fan sarcastically shouted to him, “Hey, nice shot!” Garcia shouted back across the fairway in less than decorous language.

When he made it to the back nine, another fan shouted to him that “chicken dinner is at my house.” It was a reference to the derogatory “fried chicken” remark Garcia made about Tiger Woods a couple years ago during the European Tour awards dinner.

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11:15 a.m.

Those with early tee times at the U.S. Open have taken advantage of easier conditions at Chambers Bay, the greens more receptive and the wind blowing a little more gently.

So far, nobody is taking advantage of it in the third round.

That could be scary for those starting late. The course was already starting to bake as noon approached, and some tricky hole locations have made for difficult scoring.

Phil Mickelson is still hoping that he can go low enough to put himself in contention for his first U.S. Open title. He was at 3 over heading into the weekend, eight off the lead.

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10:25 a.m.

Morgan Hoffman nearly holed out for double eagle in the U.S. Open and didn’t even know it.

The eighth hole at Chambers Bay is so far up the hillside on the far side of the property that the gallery can’t get there. It creates an eerie quiet for a major championship.

So when Hoffman hit a long iron into the lumpy green in the third round Saturday, he thought it might be good. Only when he hiked the 270-odd yards to the green did he realize his ball had stopped a couple inches from the hole.

Hoffman was off to a rocky start with bogeys on four of his first five holes, but the tap-in eagle lifted his spirits. He even acknowledged the crowd.

Even though out there it was merely imaginary.

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9:45 a.m.

Unpleasant. Terrible. A tragedy.

These were the words used to describe the U.S. Open by someone who isn’t even playing.

Gary Player used an appearance on Golf Channel to deliver a rant on Chambers Bay and the U.S. Open. He called it the most unpleasant tournament he’s ever seen in his life and took a shot at the architect, Robert Trent Jones Jr. “The man who designed this golf course had to have had one leg shorter than the other,” he said.

Player later referred to the course as terrible.

As for the tragedy?

He rambled so much it was hard to keep track, though it appeared he was talking about the maximum length of 7,900 yards and how much water it requires. Actually, USGA executive director Mike Davis says fescue doesn’t need as much water as other grasses.

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8 a.m.

Nick Hardy began the third round of the U.S. Open on Saturday about 10 hours after finishing his second, and one has to wonder if he got any sleep at all.

He was probably busy receiving “thank-you” text messages.

Hardy made bogey as the sun was setting over Chambers Bay, and that moved the cut line from 4 over to 5 over and allowed a slew of others to play the weekend. Among them: Sergio Garcia, Colin Montgomerie, Ian Poulter, Jimmy Walker and Camilo Villegas.

Hardy was first on the course Saturday, playing with Bryson Dechambeau as a marker.

Masters champion Jordan Spieth is tied with Patrick Reed for the lead at 5 under. They will go off at 2:50 p.m. local time. Dustin Johnson and Branden Grace are a shot back.