They’re some of the most undulating, fast, hard greens to putt. The 7th hole could be a driver and so could the short 2nd if it’s downwind. They have taken out many trees at Oakmont since I have been there, making the course look more like a links-style course than it used to be.
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“They’ve moved some tees back, but you’re hitting it into the same position as we did in ’94”. That’s one thing that really sets Oakmont apart. Nobody is going to scramble out of this rough.
“You’ve got to hit whatever club that you know is going to get on the fairway”, McIlroy said. That’s the kind of pressure that you’ve got to enjoy and love.
Fowler has been going through a rough patch, missing his last two cuts, at the Players and the Memorial tournament, and blamed his putting. The Fargo South High School graduate hit one into the mess on Monday during his practice round on a par-5 hole on the back nine “and you could hardly see the ball”, he said. “It even rewards slight misses versus big misses. if you have a significant miss, you’re really in trouble, and that’s the way it should be”.
The overriding emotion this week may be one of “trepidation”, but Rory McIlroy believes winning the US Open at Oakmont could be the biggest accomplishment of his career. You just count them up at the end of 72.
Willett said that he wears the Masters green jacket at “different times when you go to events”.
Oakmont is a unusual combination of two majors.
Over the years, the US Open has been defined by narrow fairways, thick rough and firm greens. The result is rarely pretty, Johnny Miller’s 63 notwithstanding. “But I probably allowed myself a bit of lapse in concentration down the last hole seeing as I needed seven or eight putts to win”.
Its a notion the 2011 U.S. Open champion is well aware of, one hell try to put to rest this weekend. Tiger Woods dominated the Masters and U.S. Open in 2002, only to get caught in bad weather at Muirfield on his way to an 81 in the third round to lose his bid. “It’s not supposed to be fun”.
“It will be a challenge, but I’m certainly looking forward to it”, Spieth said. In 2007 the US Open was played in Pennsylvania, in the same course, and the Argentinian Angel Cabrera was victorious but five-over the par, which was at 70.
He laughed along with a roomful of writers. “You know you’re going to be put under a lot of pressure on basically every single golf shot you hit out there, so you have to be prepared for that”. So you have to be prepared for that. But it’s more of a mental barrier that you’ve got to break through when you have certain things like that go on.
FARGO-The social media videos and photos of the PGA Tour players practicing at Oakmont (Pa.) Country Club were bordering on outrageous.
Day has won seven of his past 18 worldwide starts, including the PGA Championship previous year as well as last month’s Players Championship.
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“It’s just a matter of going out there and executing it”. He also finished three shots behind Day at the 2015 PGA Championship. The perception of McIlroy’s year was that that he was a disappointment, thanks in part to that ankle injury he suffered in mid-summer while messing around with a soccer ball. “I’m going to be ready for the start Thursday”. Not really. I think that my game has changed and evolved over the years, so it’s good to sort of see it through a fresh pair of eyes this week. Ultimately, when I look back, I don’t remember Dustin’s putt. I definitely feel like I’m a more disciplined and more experienced player than I was a couple years ago.
