US Open/Fox

[Smalls]

Originally Posted by AlexOrtego

you are mistaken, the greens were not "FAIR" , any place that you can read the greens perfectly, have perfect pace, but not make the putt or even hit the lip is unfair. The ball jumped, kicked left/right, amongst other things. I loved allllll the slopes and the setup but the greens were a joke.

One announcer said "this would be there last area of the US i would choose for Poa Annua greens"

Reread my comment and tell me where I said they were fair.

Nevermind, I'll save you some time.......I didn't. I said i didn't see any player say it was unfair. I also said that I didn't think they were suitable for a major. In fact, I believe I referenced several times, in this thread, the fact that I witnessed one player make a terrible approach, only to have his ball roll 5 feet from the cup.

[Duck Butter]

The USGA was in charge of the course, they took over the management of the course (like they always do before the tourney to make the course tougher) and it wasn't supposed to be as bad as it was but once the damage was done they couldn't get it back in shape at time. The drought hurt it bad

The course is pretty nice actually when its not being managed for the US Open

[Reggoh]

Originally Posted by Smalls

I witnessed one player make a terrible approach, only to have his ball roll 5 feet from the cup.

Smalls you have mentioned this several times in this thread... I wanted to point out that I saw A BUNCH of guys intentionally target areas WAY away from the flag because of the contours on this course. It was the only way to get balls close.

I'm sure some guys got some lucky breaks from poor shots but most of them were aimed in odd spots to use the slopes. There were also some guys that made great shots right at the flag and ended up over the green... they didn't play the course properly. That is why Mark Davis said that the winner would need to do some homework because the course was difficult to read and could not be played like normal.