US Open/Fox

[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.