Erin Hills

This could be carnage especially after watching the Na video. There are going to be a lot of lost balls and the pace of play will be horrendous. Fantastic if a little ghoulish viewing for us mere mortals. I wonder if this plays into the hands of someone like Westwood who is straight off the tee and usually struggles at the other end on the green
 
palindromicbob said:
Those that are further off will probably benefit from hitting crowd walkways. It's those just fractionally off will be punished.
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Its not so much that as that they love their maintained dark green rough and to get it with a normal sprinkler head you end up overwatering and hitting the native gunch. Think the seasonal difference in rough you get on a links over here
 
Dasit said:
With this we are going to see loads of provisional, and penalty + distance, should be tasty :D
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And about as slow as it can get..
6 hour rounds....
Someone should open a book on the number of lost balls..

I'm all for Major courses to be tough but, as is fairly usual within the US Open, it could easily be reduced to who makes fewest mistakes rather than hits the best shots...happy to be proved wrong but it's not my favourite tournament of the year.
 
That's a great video

The course will reward people who keep the ball in the fairway - that's how it should be imo , all the comps that allow the players to smash it miles wide and still have a shot are imo awful - US open is a proper test
 
So we know that the long grass is thick and it can be as close as two paces from the fairway but do we know how far away from the desired landing spot it is filmed

I guess we can all think of many spots on the courses we play everyday where long grass or other undesirable lies are only a couple of paces from the fairway, it doesn't mean its anywhere close to where we were supposed to hit the ball!

The course guide photos seem to support the youtube vid with normal to wide fairways with pinch points and other overgrown areas well off line, if they go in there then boohoo, should've taken an iron or 3w off the tee if they can only boom boom their driver with a disregard to supposed hazardous areas

Bring it on, should be great viewing
 
Played Erin Hills online last night, certainly generous fairways, but if you do get out of position , it's tough, plenty of nasty run offs on greens which will steal balls that are not in exactly the right place.

Agree that it's the players that make fewest mistakes will do well
 
Fairways are generous. + rain last night and right now will reduce the run-on. As ever at the U.S. Open long and straight will get it done. For parallels look for Kapalua (wide fairways - elevation changes), Whistling Straits (very similar off the tee and visually - just down the road) and Augusta as starting points. A freshening wind throughout the tournament will turn this into a big challenge from tee -to-green.
 
While I'll never be in his fan club, credit where its due to Rory for his comments about his fellow pros and the long grass getting trimmed back on a few holes

Even just using the pics and vids online you could see how generous these fairways are, seems like some players cant face their weaknesses
 
Rory is spot on about his fellow pro's moaning about the rough, the fairways are really wide, if they can't drive it on these fairways they deserve to get penalised.
Looking forward to it 😀
 
Slab said:
While I'll never be in his fan club, credit where its due to Rory for his comments about his fellow pros and the long grass getting trimmed back on a few holes

Even just using the pics and vids online you could see how generous these fairways are, seems like some players cant face their weaknesses
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Absolutely ridiculous cutting the rough after players moaned about the length of the it,poor lambs :rolleyes: lets just hope Carnoustie plays as tough as ever for next years Open and they dont listen to the players wimpy complaints.
 
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