Spieth in contention, D Johnson leads on -6
Cut: +4
Tiger Woods misses cut on +16
McIlroy (+3) and Mickelson (+3) out on course
-7: Reed (US) 12 -6: D Johnson (US) 13, -5 Spieth (US) F -4 Grace (SA) F. -3: Luiten (Ned) F, Finau (US) F, Summerhays (US) F, Martin (US) F
Selected others +1 P Casey (Eng) F: +2 Westwood (Eng) F; Rose (Eng) F; McIlroy (NI) 13 +3: Montgomerie (Sco) 12+4 Donald (Eng) F, Mickelson (US) 16 +5 Poulter (Eng) F +16 Woods (US) F
Projected cut: +5
For a full leaderboard, click this way., external
Rory McIlroy with a par that feels like a birdie or better.
He looked like he was on the hook on 13 after a horrible drive put him in the rough. But a fine recovery up and down - the second half a nerveless putt downhill - means the eagle he picked up on the previous hole is unscathed.
Image source, ReutersPhil Mickelson's wait for a first US Open title will stretch out for to at least a 26th year as it stands.
The six-time runner-up has chalked up a second straight bogey - dropping a shot at seven - to slip to four over and outside the projected cut.
He has two more holes to haul himself, coughing and spluttering into the weekend.
Rory McIlroy is in a world of pain on 13.
A punt out of the rough followed by an undercooked third leave him with an a very difficult up-and-down from below the level of the green just to make bogey...
Image source, Getty ImagesSay what you want about him, and plenty do, but Patrick Reed is brimful of fighting spirit and self-belief.
He knocks in an eagle putt on 12 and is back into a share of the lead.
"Pick up another shot over his final six holes and Rory McIlroy will be at level par at the halfway stage. A great platform for a challenge with 36 holes to play and a fair wind behind him. He could, he just might, be involved in the Sunday shakedown."
Woah, hold your horses. There are a lot of ifs and buts in there and that is even before McIlroy fades his drive off the 13th tee, wide of the 105-yard landing strip and into the rough.
Image source, Getty ImagesDid the leaderboard move for you? It did for me.
Patrick Reed is straight back on the horse, teasing in a birdie putt on the 10th to return to -5 and a share of second.
Meanwhile Rory McIlroy finally sinks a putt for an eagle two on the 12th. That is him moving on up to +1.
Want to get an idea of the big-dipper greens at Chambers Bay?
This video, on Ian Poulter's Facebook page,, external is for you. The Englishman turns a one-foot putt into a three-footer via a 450-foot detour up and down a huge slope behind the hole
Patrick Reed had sole ownership of the lead an hour or so ago, but has come off the boil since. His third bogey in four holes takes him out to four under and only, only, a share of third.
Image source, Getty ImagesPhil Mickelson very nearly saves his skin with a marathon putt on the sixth, but it runs around the rim and stays out.
He is rapidly heading the wrong way.
Image source, Getty ImagesThe projected cut has gone out from three over to four over.
That means a reprieve for England's Luke Donald and Spanish sea dog Miguel Angel Jimenez as well.
Jordan Spieth is aiming to become only the sixth person in history to land both the Masters and the US Open crown in the same year., external
The other five are none too shabby either: Craig Wood in 1941, Ben Hogan 1953, Arnold Palmer 1960, Jack Nicklaus 1972 and Tiger Woods in 2002.
Dustin Johnson slides his birdie putt right down the gullet of the 11th hole.
His advantage over the field and nearest challengers Patrick Reed and Jordan Spieth is up to two shots.
A red, white and blue look to the leaderboard and it is nothing to do with the Union Jack.
Eight of the top 12 are American.
Ol' Lefty Phil Mickelson would surely be the most popular winner with the local punters up in the Pacific North West.
The American five-time Major winner has a birdie putt at the par-four fifth. But again it undercooked. He stays two over with four holes left on his card.
Image source, Getty ImagesPatrick Reed drops back with a bogey on the ninth, to leave Dustin Johnson alone at the top of the leaderboard.
Rory McIlory goes limp-wristed over an uphill birdie putt on the 10th green. "Not up, not in." And that is neither. The whole field have been struggling with that putt. Give it some welly lads.
Henrik Stenson marks his arrival on the front nine (he started on hole 10) with a birdie four.
The Swede is back to four under and a share of fourth place with South Africa Branden Grace
Better.
Image source, Getty ImagesApparently Sergio Garcia is copping a bit of heat from some of the spectators after his less-than-complimentary comments about the greens yesterday.
He said they were "as bad as they look" after the first round. And they do look like your local municipal links after the greenkeeper mixed-up the weedkiller wrong.
"If my problem is saying what everyone thinks but they don't have the guts to say it, then I'm guilty of that for sure," added Garcia yesterday.
The Spaniard is two over for the round, putting him two over overall.
Patrick Reed comes off the eighth green - like some sort of Escher drawing,, external all deceptive slopes and red herrings - with a birdie.
Dustin Johnson has a chance to immediately re-establish his lead on the ninth, but his own birdie putt lacks legs.
Image source, APNothing like the spontaneous expression of joy and fraternal love that is a high-five is there?
Rory McIlroy has a 10-foot birdie putt after safely making it down onto the dancefloor from the elevated tee on the par-three ninth.
Nothing is dropping for him today though. The ball stays north and his score stays on the high side as well.