Wolf
Well-known member
His excuse of raising the game in his wife's native Slovakia is hilarious. More likely wants a shot at the Olympics next year 😂
US Open 2019
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Slab
Occasional Tour Caddy
Ok Stenson wins the weird haircut of the week
It's clearly a 2-part effort with no time to get it finished before he tee'd off
It's clearly a 2-part effort with no time to get it finished before he tee'd off
Slab
Occasional Tour Caddy
What a sweet connection off the tarmac path on 18 by Brooks!
Pleased to see Rose back to form although his attire these days is shocking. Whether he can hold onto that form remains to be seen. Will Koepka be happy as I thought that could have been a little better but the man is a machine in majors and can see him up there on Sunday. Good to see McIlroy carrying on the form from last week and if he can avoid his one major round poor score could really have a chance. I see this boiling up into a classic and thought they had the course set up perfectly
backwoodsman
Tour Winner
Good to see Rose do well - but difficult to say he "was on form"? Having just watched all 65 of his shots (via the US Open app), his driving was fairly poor, as often was his second shot. He was so often playing from the rough or bunkers. But his bunker play, his short game from greenside rough, and his putting were of a completely different order! 65 was a darn good score, but l think it fair to say it was somewhat scrambled. If he can get it on the short grass more often, and keep up that level of short game, then he's likely to be hard to beat.
Dan2501
Tour Winner
Rose has struggled with the big stick all season, continually had to drop to taking 3 wood off the tee to keep it in play. Put together a very solid round though, a lot of the later starters seemed to struggle as their rounds went on so did very well to get to -6.
Tiger seemed to recover well after the shocking 5 on 5 with that being the only bogey on his card, very solid play and puts him in a decent position going into today. Looking like we're going to have a cracking leaderboard with Rose, Fowler, Schauffele, McIlroy, Molinari, Rahm, DeChambeau, Matsuyama, Koepka, Woods, Day and Scott all starting under par.
Tiger seemed to recover well after the shocking 5 on 5 with that being the only bogey on his card, very solid play and puts him in a decent position going into today. Looking like we're going to have a cracking leaderboard with Rose, Fowler, Schauffele, McIlroy, Molinari, Rahm, DeChambeau, Matsuyama, Koepka, Woods, Day and Scott all starting under par.
Orikoru
Tour Winner
Went to bed at 1 hoping to wake up and see Brooks had made me some first round leader money, but no. The four guys I backed outright are between E and +3, meanwhile the three other guys I considered backing but didn't are all between -2 and -3. Just another standard major for me.
Grant85
Head Pro
Personally disappointed in the set up.
I know, a bit like a links course, there's not that much they can do if there isn't a good 3 club wind. However, looks like the USGA have, at least for this year, moved away from trying to get par as the winning score. Perhaps they have finally relented to player power and have just set up a 'tough PGA Tour week' type event.
Appreciate there is a fine line to tread for the USGA and even if they are just an inch over the line, they are going to get burned at the stake by players and ex-players who are commentating - but I think most people would have been expecting firmer and faster greens.
Will be interesting to see if the greens are allowed to firm up, but at the moment you'd say we are heading for a winning score of -15 or -16.
I know, a bit like a links course, there's not that much they can do if there isn't a good 3 club wind. However, looks like the USGA have, at least for this year, moved away from trying to get par as the winning score. Perhaps they have finally relented to player power and have just set up a 'tough PGA Tour week' type event.
Appreciate there is a fine line to tread for the USGA and even if they are just an inch over the line, they are going to get burned at the stake by players and ex-players who are commentating - but I think most people would have been expecting firmer and faster greens.
Will be interesting to see if the greens are allowed to firm up, but at the moment you'd say we are heading for a winning score of -15 or -16.
Wolf
Well-known member
Way it goes sometimes with the golf betting. I've been lucky this year had Woods/Scahuffele/Koepka at Masters and Koepka/DJ/Spieth at PGA.
So far in this one I've got Woodland/Scahuffele/Koepka with outsiders on Kaymer and Hovland. If they can all maintain I'll be in for another good week, but then again they could all have a mare and fall away
Apparently the guy who sets the course up for the US PGA is different to the one from the last few years. He has certainly not tried to be brutal, as you say lesson learned, but maybe has gone too far the other way. Without the wind these guys have not struggled there. If the forecast for the remainder of the tournament is still tame do they have the ability to toughen it up or is it all too late now?
Imurg
The Grinder Of Pars (Semi Crocked)
2nd round will be set up similarly to the first to make the draw fair.
After the cut I'd expect them to toughen things up a bit
After the cut I'd expect them to toughen things up a bit
Bunkermagnet
Journeyman Pro
Enjoyed watching the highlighted groups early on, but got so fed up with the Sky commentary later on I gave up.
Course looks good, but greens look a touch soft and forgiving, the fairways a touch to wide and rough a little bit to easy.....for the US open.
Course looks good, but greens look a touch soft and forgiving, the fairways a touch to wide and rough a little bit to easy.....for the US open.
Grant85
Head Pro
Yes - Mike Davis was the guy who was responsible for previous set ups and they have brought someone else in, John Bodenhammer. So clearly he doesn't want to trash his reputation at an iconic venue as players seem to feel very comfortable criticising US Open set ups. Apparently Bryon was having a pretty big chirp, having clearly missed the memo that someone shooting 65 in the afternoon meant that the course was gettable.
As I said, if the wind was up in the high teens / low 20s, then I think we'd have a scoreboard that looks much more like the US Open.
Doesn't look like much wind is forecast really - maybe the guys this afternoon might get a bit to contend with.
Marshy77
Journeyman Pro
Nothing wrong with attire, looks smart. Maybe it's just not your colour.
Some great golf played yesterday and the course looks stunning. From what I saw G Mac seemed to keep going whilst Mickleson really seemed to struggle on the greens.
Jacko_G
Blackballed
Some utter drivel on this thread.
Orikoru
Tour Winner
Since everyone seems to be talking about it, I rather liked Rosey's outfit. I'd wear it myself.
Wolf
Well-known member
Think the course will dry out a touch next couple days and come Saturday and Sunday pins will be in less favourable positions than they were on day 1 and will be on day 2 .
As for Rose, nope those colours together a No go for me he needs to get someone to sort his wardrobe out
As for Rose, nope those colours together a No go for me he needs to get someone to sort his wardrobe out
Jacko_G
Blackballed
Absolutely.
Wolf
Well-known member
People just need realise this is only round 1 done in the bag, US Open gets harder as the week goes on as usually does the Open Championship
Dan2501
Tour Winner
I hope they lose the course at some point over the week, let the greens get too firm and the wind pick up. I'm a sucker for carnage and Tour pros struggling and moaning. It's great.
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