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Among the early starters for the second round at Oakmont, Casey birdied three of his first five holes to improve to four over par.

An opening round of 77 - nine adrift of first-round leader Nick Dougherty - left Casey plenty of work to do, but he appeared to be up to the task.

Ian Poulter, Kenneth Ferrie and Lee Westwood were also out early on Friday but were not having the same success.

Both Poulter and Ferrie bogeyed the first hole and things quickly got worse as the duo ran up double-bogeys on the third.

Poulter also bogeyed the fourth but hit back superbly with back-to-back birdies to lie four over par.

Westwood played his first four holes in three over to fall to five over for the tournament.

The trio of Englishmen were not the only ones struggling early on at Oakmont.

Adam Scott started with a triple-bogey seven on the first, while Vijay Singh and Jim Furyk were two over after six and five holes respectively to stand three over.

Phil Mickelson, who battled a wrist injury and a wayward driver to card an opening-round 74, picked up his first birdie of the tournament on the par-five fourth to improve to three over.