Matt Wallace’s hopes of making the weekend of a Major championship for the first time ended in disappointment after he missed the halfway cut at the US Open by a single shot.

The Moor Park-attached professional was up against it after a seven-over-par 77 in Thursday’s brutal opening round which saw the vast majority of the field struggle in the wind at Shinnecock Hills.

Weather conditions had got better and what remained a highly challenging test when Wallace teed of yesterday afternoon and his score was to improve by five shots as he fired a good two-over over round of 72.

But it was to prove one shot too many as the mid-way cut came at eight-over, as this year’s Hero Indian Open champion missed out on rounds three as some high-profile names including Jordan Spieth, Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy, Bubba Watson and Sergio Garcia also failed to make it through.

Having dropped a shot at the par four first hole, Wallace was to make his first birdie of the tournament with a three at the sixth. But he was to slip to nine-over with back-to-back bogey fives at eight and nine.

A fourth bogey of the round came with a five at 13, but the 28-year-old was to move back to nine-over with a two at the 17th as his second US Open challenge came to an end.

Wallace had hit just 36 per cent of the fairways and 39 per cent of the greens in regulation in the first round, but these statistics improved - significantly in the first instance - to 86 per cent and 56 per cent respectively in the Moor Park professional’s second 18 holes.