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Post by weekendhackers on Jun 14, 2017 18:57:25 GMT
Anyone have any thoughts on this years US Open course? Looks like it will play a little slower and softer then originally expected which could results in some decent scoring. 9 looks like a nasty little par 3.
I expect the good drivers to do well...although with the wider fairways and tricky green areas maybe someone like Jordan could play well.
DJ, Rors, Pieters, Rahm, Fowler. That is short list.
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Post by Sea Island Mafia on Jun 17, 2017 1:36:42 GMT
Anyone have any thoughts on this years US Open course? Looks like it will play a little slower and softer then originally expected which could results in some decent scoring. 9 looks like a nasty little par 3. I expect the good drivers to do well...although with the wider fairways and tricky green areas maybe someone like Jordan could play well. DJ, Rors, Pieters, Rahm, Fowler. That is short list. Almost posted "Who doesn't belong on this list?" the other day. and you know me, I was meaning Fowler, lol. Wow.... what a tough tourney to predict thus far. DJ +4 Rors +5 Pieters +3 Rahm +5 Total +17 Not to mention Day (+10), Rose (+2) , Scott (+3), Stenson (+3), Watson (+4) , Hatton (+4), Walker (+6) not making the cut. That's cumulative +49 over par for those names... on a US Open where there was tied a record low for the cut (+1). Crazy.... or omen? Just when we thought we knew some things, thought we knew the 'horses'... |
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Post by greenjacksixpack on Jun 17, 2017 2:38:19 GMT
Weird one...you have a few of the "exciting" guys there you would maybe expect...but really relatively few. Then on top of that, you have more of the "average" guys in comparison doing at least absolid job thus far. I lost Day, Schwartzel,Hatton...and othèrs who have had many moNoren ments throughought the year. Meanwhile, you have Lingmerth, Laird, Cink, and the Web guy I added there still alive. Now... Hideki admitedly was like lead fluffer today. We back that up tomorrow with a similarly nice round, and this could be a very exciting Father's Day. Also, Weisberger has had a very strong year...just not much to show here in the States of yet...so this is nice to see. But really...so many gone I would have expected to see still at least playing. Not a big cut,either....will be interesting to see who utilizes tomorrow.
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Post by Annihilation Nation on Jun 17, 2017 3:14:12 GMT
I am a little more impressed with Erin Hills than I thought I would be. I wish the USGA would have either made the fairways narrower or left the fescue higher. With the wide fairways they should not have cut down the junk. They should have left it knee to waste high. IMHO that crappy fescue does not belong anywhere near a golf course. It just looks bad on a course. I just hate the trend of having the U.S. Open on these types of link style courses. We don't need 2 British Opens every year. It's time to get the trees and water back at the open like it should be and get that 20 foot high weed field out of here. How about having a U.S. Open at Augusta National but have the rough be nasty and be a real penalty. If you think the greens would be fast in early April imagine how fast they would be in mid June.
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Post by Sea Island Mafia on Jun 17, 2017 17:27:59 GMT
I am a little more impressed with Erin Hills than I thought I would be. I wish the USGA would have either made the fairways narrower or left the fescue higher. With the wide fairways they should not have cut down the junk. They should have left it knee to waste high. IMHO that crappy fescue does not belong anywhere near a golf course. It just looks bad on a course. I just hate the trend of having the U.S. Open on these types of link style courses. We don't need 2 British Opens every year. It's time to get the trees and water back at the open like it should be and get that 20 foot high weed field out of here. How about having a U.S. Open at Augusta National but have the rough be nasty and be a real penalty. If you think the greens would be fast in early April imagine how fast they would be in mid June. Aaron Ills (  ) not as bad as what Crenshaw did to Pinehurst #2, a few yrs back. Talk about fugly. |
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Post by Annihilation Nation on Jun 21, 2017 22:28:33 GMT
After watching Erin Hills I think the course made for some pretty boring golf. The only thing the golfers really had to worry about was the Fescue which was already cut down. Considering the lack of any real hazards the punishment wasn't severe enough to effect the golfers. I am not quite like Josh in being against putt-putt courses from time to time because not every event should be a brutal test. I think the U.S. Open is kind of known as the toughest test of the year where even par is a GREAT score. Erin Hills barely produced that at all and barely had the players second guessing their games. Although this course was a little more pleasant on the eyes then Chambers Bay or every OPEN course but it didn't really elicit much beauty. I didn't feel that those in the lead really were tested all that much and were really all that scared of getting pars like a normal U.S. Open. I think it is time for the U.S. Open to go in a new direction. I wouldn't actually mind an Open to be played in Florida on one of the most prominent water courses in the country. Who knows which course that would be but I am sure there is something available down there.
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Post by greenjacksixpack on Jun 22, 2017 14:55:38 GMT
That one where it was Kaymer with everyone else twelve strokes begind him....that was a really odd one.
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) not as bad as what Crenshaw did to Pinehurst #2, a few yrs back. Talk about fugly.