{"id":66074,"date":"2020-09-14T00:29:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-13T21:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/there-will-be-whining-at-winged-foots-long-awaited-us-open\/"},"modified":"2020-09-14T00:29:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-13T21:29:00","slug":"there-will-be-whining-at-winged-foots-long-awaited-us-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/there-will-be-whining-at-winged-foots-long-awaited-us-open\/","title":{"rendered":"#\u2018There will be whining\u2019 at Winged Foot\u2019s long-awaited US Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#\u2018There will be whining\u2019 at Winged Foot\u2019s long-awaited US Open<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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September 13, 2020 |<\/span> 5:29pm |<\/span> Updated September 13, 2020 | 5:29pm<\/span><\/p>\n

\n Winged Foot has been waiting.<\/p>\n

Winged Foot has been waiting 14 years, dating back to the last time it hosted the U.S. Open, in 2006.<\/p>\n

Winged Foot has been waiting through the COVID-19 postponement, moving the 2020 U.S. Open from June to this week.<\/p>\n

Winged Foot has been waiting while the 13 PGA Tour tournaments since the restart of its season following a three-month pandemic pause have delivered winners with an average winning score of 17.5 under par.<\/p>\n

Winged Foot has been waiting while world No. 1 Dustin Johnson won at 30-under par in the Northern Trust, 21-under par at the Tour Championship and 19-under at the Travel<\/a>ers.<\/p>\n

Winged Foot has been waiting for Phil Mickelson, who\u2019s been waiting 14 years to settle a score with the West Course, most particularly No. 18.<\/p>\n

Winged Foot has been waiting for Tiger Woods, who in 2006 was barely a month removed from the death of his father, Earl, and never stood a chance to make the cut that week.<\/p>\n

Winged Foot has been waiting for the bitching and moaning by the players about how difficult it is, how the USGA\u2019s setup is more app<\/a>ropriate for the Ironman Triathlon than a golf tournament.<\/p>\n

In the 20 U.S. Opens since 2000, the winning score has been over-par four times, even-par three times and double digits under-par only four times.<\/p>\n

The USGA always has been about defending par, and in that process it\u2019s been known to cross the line of manipulation on occasion (see Shinnecock Hills in 2004 and 2018). And in that process, many of the players have gotten defensive \u2014 not only in their play, but vocally, too.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere will be whining,\u201d NBC Sports analyst David Feherty said this past week. \u201cThere always is when you got a golf course that\u2019s so penal off the tee.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Phil Mickelson, Dustin Johnson, Tiger Woods<\/span>Getty Images (3)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You know what? Too bad.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a place for the tournaments that produce 25-under-par winners. That place is not every week.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a certain fascination that golf fans get out of watching the best players in the world struggle for par instead of hitting gap wedges into par-5 greens with their second shots.<\/p>\n

Those who argue that the difficult setups are not fair are missing the point. How can they be unfair if everyone in the field is playing the same golf course?<\/p>\n

Geoff Ogilvy won that 2006 U.S. Open at Winged Foot that Mickelson lost with his implosion on the 72nd hole at 5-over par for the week.<\/p>\n

Winged Foot has hosted nine professional major championships and twice the winning score was below par \u2014 Davis Love III\u2019s 1997 PGA Championship and Fuzzy Zoeller\u2019s 1984 U.S. Open win.<\/p>\n

The most famous was Hale Irwin\u2019s U.S. Open win at 7-over-par in 1974, which was so difficult that Dick Schaap wrote a book about it, titled, \u201cThe Massacre at Winged Foot.\u201d<\/p>\n

The cut in that U.S. Open was 13-over par. Schaap\u2019s book famously prompted then-USGA championship chairman Sandy Tatum to say \u201cWe\u2019re not trying to embarrass the best players in the world; we\u2019re trying to identify them.\u201d<\/p>\n

The weather in the days leading up to this week\u2019s U.S. Open has been cool and dry, and that trend is forecast to continue through tournament week. That will make for firmer and faster conditions, which when combined with the narrow fairways and brutal, lush rough will make for tough scoring conditions.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just a difficult course,\u201d world No. 2 Jon Rahm said after a recent trip to see the course for the first time. \u201cIt\u2019s long. It\u2019s narrow. It\u2019s undulated. You just need to play really good golf. I\u2019m not shocked that the winning score last time was 5-over par. And if it gets firm \u2026 I don\u2019t see how any of us shoots under par.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reigning British Open champion Shane Lowry took notice of Rahm\u2019s scouting report.<\/p>\n

\u201cI imagine it\u2019s going to be one of the tougher U.S. Opens that we\u2019re going to face,\u2019\u2019 Lowry said recently. \u201cI heard Jon Rahm\u2019s comments saying that over par will probably win the tournament. It excites me a little bit to be able to see what it\u2019s like, but obviously it won\u2019t excite you too much if you don\u2019t have your A-game<\/a> with you.\u2019\u2019\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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