Is Oakmont too easy?
Where's the carnage, where's the high scores? +10, said Vijay. The winning score looks like it will be under par.
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It's way too early to call it "too easy." Give me a break...
78, 80, 85, 86...Vijay himself is at or below the cut line at +8. What tournament are you watching? The gallery is stumbling all over the place after tripping on all those lost tempers!
The rain made it less killer on the early round, but it sounds like since the sun has come out, they're getting destroyed. You're jumping the gun just a little.
patience, patience. It'll happen. Maybe not +10 but it's gonna be ugly.
I assume this is sarcastic. Hundreds of rounds by the best players in the world, and only four under par. Great shots (I've been there both days) that run off the back of the green; drives that land in the fairway and end up in drainage ditches. I haven't looked carefully, but I think that no one at Tiger's score or better is in the top 20 in the world rankings. (Toms is 22)
It is BS.
Doral -- still best test in golf.
Just ask "It's just subcutaneous fat" Phil Mickelson that question. He won't be around for the weekend, so act fast. I saw him interviewed today and he actually thinks the course injured him during his practice round. I hate to break it to you Phil, but you were swinging the club through the rough for the umpteenth time when you injured yourself. Plus, despite his "workout regimen", he's still woefully out of shape.
I would love to see him win a U.S. Open but he's too delusional about his physical condition and his game to ever win it. His best chance was last year and he blew it.
...and...
The course was pretty "easy" for Paul Casey today. Thankfully he hasn't made any anti-American comments. Yet.
35 golfers shoot in the 80s. I don't find that entertaining. Fownes famous quote is a poor stuck shot is forever lost, or something like that. Today, I saw a lot of good, quality shots that still ended up being lost shots. First the Masters, now Oakmont. What will Carnoustie be like? I agree with a previous comment. This is BS.
I think it was Adam Scott who made the comment during an interview after yesterday's round that on a lot of greens they have a 3 foot by 3 foot window to hit. That's not golf. You're supposed to be rewarded for good shots, not perfect shots. Same thing for the fairways. If you hit a fairway you shouldn't expect it to roll into trouble.
Dr. Bob Rotella said it best. "Golf is not a Game of Perfect".
I give the USGA credit. After Friday they realized that the course was getting away from them and watered the greens overnight.
Saturday it was much more fair and enjoyable to watch these guys. Still a hard course, but good shots were not being penalized. Let's hope they keep it up on Sunday.
Let's go Bubba!
I am tired of -30 scores. These guys are good, but the final score does not have to be ridiculously low to prove it to me. Suck it up, crybabies. The opponent is the field, not the golf course. Looks good to see them struggle if only once a year.
Imagine, making the course the members play easier for the pros!
Go Bads!
Being from Pittsburgh, I look at Oakmont this way; it's the blue-blood version of this blue-collar town...where even our golf courses are tough and the greens are rough!
For one, I'm thrilled to see these guys really getting tested. Would I want it to be like this every week? Probably not. But at least a few times a season, they ought to prove what they're really made of.
Funny, but it seems to me that these guys are playing a course that actually resembles the sort of poorly maintained muny courses a lot of us have played over the years, with hard-baked greens, deep rough and bumpy, nasty fairways. I'm having a blast watch them negotiate this course.
And how happy are we that Angel booted Whiny Boy Phil from the weekend? Ecstatic. Mikelson has a good game...but a loser attitude.
Sunday should be interesting....
Ron
It's definitely not too easy. I was at Oakmont yesterday and that is a brutal course. I laughed a bit at the "this is like a muni course" comment from Ron. This is an elite course, and it is in amazing condition. A muni course it is not. This is elite level country club all the way.
Clearly not a muni course but I have always wanted to see what the scores would be like if the PGA tour did hold an event on a muni course that was in no way specially prepared for the pros and they played from the blues. Would we see a bunch of sub 59s?
Okay, listen, I know the difference between a muni course and Oakmont. I've walked this course and realize how beautifully maintained it is.
I was trying to make the point (and apparently failed!) that the level of difficulty which you often find at a municipal course, with rock hard, dried-out greens, is (in a way) comparable to what the pros have found at OCC.
And yea, wouldn't it be interesting to see them all play a really skanky course? Sounds like a new reality TV show!
Ron
"Is Oakmont too easy?"
...maybe for the International players.
Two chokes in a row, where Tiger had the lead on Sunday, and didn't put it away. A double from the fairway on three, bogey on easy 11 from the fairway. He has no one to blame but himself, and no comfort but his hundreds of millions and his hot wife.
"Perfect," Ogilvy said. "Even the practice rounds are brutal in the U.S. Open. It's nice to have some fun and actually make some birdies."
...after completing the Windmill hole at Harveys Golf and Burgers.
These PGA guys are becoming girley-men on steroids.
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