THE UNITED STATES OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP
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Props to Speith for hitting the ball all over the place and being -1.
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The modern Seve
For real. Seve won more majors including one where he got up and down from the car park but both never gave up on a hole or round
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Brooks with 15 feet for birdie on 18, currently at -1. Feel safe saying it now. Let’s go!
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-2. It’s on.
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My in progress takes …
Spaun isn't an unknown quantity and him getting in the Playoffs at The Players probably deserves more respect from me than I give it but The Players has always been a strange tournament that has often produced a strange leaderboard … I don't think anybody behind him is afraid of him running away with anything. I'll say that I'd be impressed if he shoots 73 or better tomorrow.
Koepka probably got more out of his round today than he played so that's encouraging for him … his round today reminded me a bit of some of the stuff I saw with Bryson around Augusta where there were some smoke and mirrors early that caught up with him eventually. Let's see how tomorrow goes as he's not really been stringing rounds together as of late in Majors.
Most impressive round for me today was Rahm … he looked to be in solid control of his game and putting himself in a position where he was having relatively low stress. I think he would take 3 more 69's and take his chances.
Also need to acknowledge that Spieth probably was unlucky today to shoot even … I'll continue to say that courses where par is a good score set up well for him as his "Seve ability" gets him out of trouble that he's going to get into on any course anyway.
Rory will be an interesting watch tomorrow as he had the Jekyll and Hyde 9's … if he's able to go shoot something like 67 or 68 tomorrow and pull himself up to +1 or +2 after 36 holes he won't be in a terrible spot come the weekend
Not surprised at all with Scottie's day as I said before the tournament … this is a course that accentuates his "weaknesses"
I still suspect that anything at or better than par will be a great number come Sunday with the forecast coming …
Today was probably the best scoring conditions that you can get.
Tomorrow will likely get a little rougher and I wouldn't be shocked to see the scoring average jump by a full shot tomorrow.
The weekend is going to have a lot of weather challenges and if it puts water on the course then you're going to get a combination of the course playing longer and the rough becoming even more of a challenge as those thick lies just get heavier and more inconsistent.
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We can now mention Rahm
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Not really concerned about it getting too easy if it’s wet. As you said the wet rough and I’d add that Oakmont has so many hard pin options that if gets wet they’ll find some spots that they wouldn’t dare put pins on if it was dry.
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Scottie and Bryson at 3 over aren't out at all but they need a good round
Rory is still ignoring the media at 4 over
Scottie had to replace his driver at the PGA same as Rory. He just didn't cry about it
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Agreed
If it gets soft you're just going to see a laundry list of tucked pins ranging from 3-6 yards on embracing everything being tucked
If the ground gets saturated and you lose rollout then you're going to have a course that's just going to play insanely long and difficult … the nature of the green complexes isn't going to eliminate the difficulty of getting the ball close
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Nobody at anything up to probably about +4 is really out of the tournament yet but they will need a good one on Friday to get themselves back within striking distance … ideally up to even but no worse than +1 heading into the weekend
What today proved is that there's a good score out there if you can execute shots and roll some putts …
What today also proved is that if you start getting wayward you can take yourself out of the tournament quickly
