TPC Boston update and Oakmont nails one more tree
Geoff Shackelford has two articles of note on golf courses changes to significant courses.
The first is an update on TPC Boston which is being reworked by talented architect Gil Hanse (with Brad Faxon serving as player consultant) and the article couldn’t be full of more good news on the improvements that Hanse has inserted into [...]
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More Oakmont setup news for the US Open
Mike Davis is sounding more and more like somebody who doesn’t belong at the USGA. He actually thinks. He actually doesn’t plan on having 8″ rough right off the fairway. He better be careful.
“I was just there Sunday-Monday, and it’s more lush than I think we’d kind of hoped,” said Mike Davis, the course set-up [...]
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Rush: “They’ve taken out 4,000 trees, which is good.”
Depending on which side of the isle you fall, this might be the first time you agree with Rush Limbaugh, who played Oakmont on Tuesday.
I just had a great time. It’s probably the hardest golf course that I’ve ever played. I shot a 94. I’m going to tell you, for you people that play golf, [...]
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U.S. Open course setup
Mike Davis, the USGA’s course setup guy, gave a lengthy description of how Oakmont will be setup for June’s U.S. Open at the media day on Monday.
Some of the highlights.
But this year we’re at 7,230 yards on the scorecard. Now that is a par-70. That is, I would say, medium-length as U.S. Opens go. It [...]
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Rees Jones and Cog Hill
It’s been known for well over a year that Rees Jones has been hired to buy the USGA’s affection renovate Cog Hill in the hopes of getting a U.S. Open. It’s also well known that the USGA wants to have a midwest location that can become part of the U.S. Open rota and, ideally, it [...]
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Crime put on hold during U.S. Open
If there’s one thing you can count on, it’s local TV news finding the most innocuous news item and turning into the plague. Pittsburgh’s KDKA is reporting that some court cases will be put on hold during the U.S. Open so that the police officers and detectives can work security at the U.S. Open - [...]
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Tiger says Oakmont tougher than Augusta
More from Tiger’s practice round at the host course for the 2007 US Open.
“It’s a great test, but has a lot of blind tee and second shots,” world number one Woods said in his monthly newsletter Tuesday. “Overall, I’d say it’s a lot harder than Augusta National.
“It’s an old-style course and I kept trying to [...]
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