McIlroy however, who is returning from a hip and back injury, put a courageous face on his second consecutive missed cut at a US Open following his exit at the halfway stage in 2016.
Second-ranked Rory McIlroy also looked sure to have the weekend free when the Northern Irishman added a 71 to his first-round 78 for a five-over total of 149.
At five over par, McIlroy was four shots outside the projected cut mark, while Scotland's Richie Ramsay was one shot outside after shooting a second consecutive 73.
McIlroy, the No. 2 player in the world, also arrived last Friday having missed the last month to rest a nagging rib injury.
The four-way tie was the most after two rounds in a U.S. Open since Winged Foot in 1974, back when the names were more familiar for a major - Raymond Floyd, Arnold Palmer, Gary Player and Hale Irwin, who went on to win his first major.
Casey, who had shot a six-under-par 66 on Thursday, came unstuck with a disastrous triple bogey eight on the 14th after teeing off on the 10th hole. Hopefully I've got a lot of the bad stuff out of my system yesterday and some parts today. If there's soft conditions, maybe we tuck a hole location a little bit more, versus if we get real firm conditions and it gets windy, we're sitting there talking among ourselves saying, 'How do we tone this thing down?'
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Unfortunately for McIlroy, he might well be doing just that on Friday afternoon, the 28-year-old following an eagle on the second - where he drove the green on the 330-yard par four - with four bogeys and double bogeys on the 15th and 17th. "I guess it's rare you get through a U.S. Open or any major without some kind of a hiccup".
The top of the leaderboard is bunched up, with four players tied for the lead at 7 under, and three more a stroke behind, including Lovemark.
"Over the years, I've gotten a lot better managing that", Stricker said Friday. He only shot 75, with just one birdie. "Then clawed all the way back and actually picked up one more to the good by the time we were finished".
Earlier this week, before it even began, players grumbled about Erin Hills' long fescue grass making for a merciless rough, and inclement weather forecasts ultimately forced grounds crews to trim the golf course's signature feature. I started missing some left and tried to correct it and missed a couple right.
He said: "It feels really good and it is not every day you enjoy a round of golf with an 8 on the card".
As for Day, he entered this week with a stellar track record at the U.S. Open - five top-10 finishes in six career starts. A bogey at the extremely hard par-4 fourth hole was the only blip on the front nine, and he made the turn at one-over for the day.
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