The organisers of the 116th US Open have insisted the Oakmont Country Club as encountered by competitors is no different from the course when played by members.
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Rose will be competing in his 11th US Open and he hopes to draw on memories from his tie for 10th when the championship was last held at Oakmont in 2007.
A nine-times victor on the PGA Tour who squandered a three-shot lead in the final round of the 2010 U.S. Open at Pebble Beach where he closed with an 82, Johnson knows that patience will be a prized commodity at treacherous Oakmont this week.
Phil Mickelson turns 46 on Thursday. Your tee times and practice rounds (are the same).
If the trip sounds familiar, it should.
The good news is that Mickelson didn’t give back a shot the rest of the day, especially impressive since Merion surrendered only one other round under par to the 78 players who completed the first round.
“And just trust that where you’re hitting it into the spots is the best leave”.
“I’ve done everything humanly possible to be here from a recovery point of view, from a fitness point of view, from a practice point of view, but there’s no doubt my practice schedule has certainly been on the light side”.
“It wasn’t like I hit bad shots or did anything”, Johnson said Wednesday.
“So it’s definitely been a tight timetable”, he added.
“I’ve got a great group with Jason and Louis this week”, Scott said.
“It’s awesome to think I said that, but at the time I felt so stressed out that I really felt if I ever got to No.1 I would be done”, Day recalled ahead of the second major tournament of the season.
Should he win, Spieth, 22, would become the second youngest to win his second U.S. Open title, behind John McDermott, who won the event for the second time when he was 20 years old in 1912.
To say it was overshadowed by some other events isn’t telling the half of it. You start thinking about results, you’ll never play your best golf.
First, soccer’s World Cup was being unveiled all over America.
Also, try to pick golfers who have a spectacular short game, as they’ll need it in order to score well this coming weekend.
And then there was that infamous slow-speed vehicle chase on the other coast as police tracked O.J. Simpson in the murder investigation of his ex-wife and her friend.
“Actually, I’m not going to comment on that”, he said. “I think they putt very similar to Augusta (National) and, in some places, they are more severe”. “So I remember that”.
“I’ve been putting well the past few years”.
Northern Ireland’s four-time major champion Rory McIlroy also looms large in a star-studded field set to be tested by a fiendishly hard course.
“You have to be so disciplined”, former Open champion Rory McIlroy said. “If we can get ourselves in contention here, I can draw back on Colonial, what happened at the end there”.
For the next four days we’ll find out: Are the players ready for Oakmont?
“It just honestly feels like a normal week that I got here earlier for and I’m preparing harder for”, he said.
“I think any parent would, if they had a chance to be at their child’s eighth-grade graduation; I think that’s a big milestone as they head into high school the following year”.
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“It might have something to do with the fact that it’s behind me that I’ve played well the last two weeks (a second last week in Memphis, a T20 at the Memorial)”.
