![]() ![]() Open setups ever since taking over the role from now-retired Tom Meeks in 2005. I don't play as much as I used to."Īnd yet, Davis has received a heavy dose of praise for his work on U.S. I think it's 3-point-something right now. Open venues likely wouldn't put much of a scare into the world's best golfers.Īsked about his own game, Mike Davis, the USGA's senior director of rules and competitions, simply laughs before discussing his handicap. It should be quite a show, though it has a tough act to follow.Just as an "American Idol" judge may not be able to outperform the competitors, the man responsible for setting up U.S. He'll have to watch this one from home, just like he did the Masters and the PGA Championship. He is recovering from multiple broken bones in his legs from a Feb. Woods, of course, won't be around for the next U.S. Woods shot 67, prompting the caddie to say, “He just won two tournaments with one round.”Īnd he was right, though one took more work than the other. He was so predictable that John Wood, a caddie in 2008 who now works as a walking analyst for NBC, stayed behind to watch Woods finish his first round of the PGA Tour event on the South Course in 2008. ![]() Woods, though, used to feast on Torrey Pines. Woods, Jack Nicklaus, Ben Hogan and Denny Shute are the only players to win a major and a regular PGA Tour event on the same course in the same year. Patrick Reed won at Torrey Pines in January and will be attempting to join a most elite group. I imagine there will be six or seven holes where you say, ‘All right, I’ll have a good look at birdies.' The rest you pitch on the front and get it to the middle.” I don't know if the fairways will be narrower, but they'll play more narrow. ![]() “I've seen the forecast of cooler nights, 75 degrees and no rain, so they can do whatever they want (with the setup). “The biggest difference is how firm the greens are,” Jordan Spieth said. Open than he was when he won by eight shots at the PGA Tour event in 2008. Even so, Woods was 14 shots higher in the U.S. It's not a direct comparison because the PGA Tour event at Torrey Pines includes one round on the North Course. Open, a major that can create enough drama on its own as it tries to identify the best player with a course that can be extreme. It has the potential to be a sideshow at the U.S. More: Bryson DeChambeau makes pit stop in Detroit, amid white-hot feud with Brooks Koepka Someone leaked an unaired Golf Channel interview with Koepka in which he rolls his eyes when he notices DeChambeau walking behind him, pauses the interview and then uses salty language to express his disdain for DeChambeau. That has been as entertaining as anything in golf since the PGA Championship. DeChambeau would love nothing more than to join them, and that might be the final word in his social media riff with Koepka. Open in consecutive years - Curtis Strange (1988-89) and Brooks Koepka (2017-18). Only two players in the last 50 years have won the U.S. “If they make it the same way, I'll continue to play the same way.” “If it plays the same way, where you can bomb it into certain places and play to a better angle, I'm going to do it,” DeChambeau said. And then DeChambeau won by six shots at 6-under 274, the lowest score ever at Winged Foot. Opens had yielded only two 72-hole scores under par among 750 players who had tried. That much was said about Winged Foot last year, the New York course that in five previous U.S. Open, his 10th major-championship appearance “I don’t think the USGA has to do a hell of a lot to make it very difficult,” Louis Oosthuizen said “It’s already a tough golf course.” ![]() Throw in the USGA, narrow fairways, the dry air of June, and 7,652 yards on a South Course that plays every bit that length at sea level. It's one of the strongest courses on the PGA Tour in January when the turf is soft and there is less regard for the winning score. What should be expected is Torrey Pines being the kind of test that defines an old-fashioned U.S. “So I’m going to put everything I have into it.” “I know that I’m playing well and this could very well be my last really good opportunity to win a U.S. Open, it's the only major keeping Mickelson from the career Grand Slam. ![]()
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