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The US Open
The 2011 Open should be interesting. Beautiful tough golf course located in Bethesda Maryland(FUNFR is in and grew up near this course). No Tiger as that injury is still naggin(in spite of some fool here thinking he was not injured and pulled out of his last tourn because he was not playing well). MICKP...the best current golfer that has not won an Open although he has finshed 2nd a record 5 times (maybe you need to throttle back a tad Phil when it matters). STRST is hot coming in....as is TOMDA....DONLU. WESLE and Martin Kaymer have to be considered. Parity has reached the PGA and there are actually a number of others that could be considered favorites.
One interesting deveopement is that Tigers caddy will be looping for SCOAD. The Poa annua greens have been replaced with bent and are in perfect shape.....firm and fast. The fescue rough will feature the USGA-favored graduated cuts to further penalize shots the further they land from the fairway. The first cut is an average of 18 to 20 feet wide and 3 3/4 to 4 inches tall, depending on the hole. The second cut of rough goes 18-20 feet further from the fairway and is 4-5 inches high. They've added tees and skewed some of them so as not to have a straight look down the fairway....and added length. The golfers will NEED to be able to work the golf ball left OR right. The Field: Robert Allenby, Australia Aaron Baddeley, Australia Briny Baird, United States of America Jonathan Byrd, United States of America Angel Cabrera, Argentina Chad Campbell, United States of America Paul Casey, England K.J. Choi, Korea Stewart Cink, United States of America Ben Crane, United States of America Jason Day, Australia Luke Donald, England Jason Dufner, United States of America Ernie Els, South Africa Rickie Fowler, United States of America Harrison Frazar, United States of America Fred Funk, United States of America Jim Furyk, United States of America Sergio Garcia, Spain Brian Gay, United States of America Lucas Glover, United States of America Retief Goosen, South Africa Bill Haas, United States of America Todd Hamilton, United States of America Padraig Harrington, Ireland J.J. Henry, United States of America Charley Hoffman, United States of America Trevor Immelman, South Africa Fredrik Jacobson, Sweden Brandt Jobe, United States of America Dustin Johnson, United States of America Zach Johnson, United States of America Martin Kaymer, Germany Anthony Kim, United States of America Matt Kuchar, United States of America Martin Laird, Scotland Marc Leishman, Australia Davis Love III, United States of America Hunter Mahan, United States of America Graeme McDowell, Northern Ireland Rory McIlroy, Northern Ireland Phil Mickelson, United States of America Ryan Moore, United States of America Kevin Na, United States of America Geoff Ogilvy, Australia Jeff Overton, United States of America Ryan Palmer, United States of America Tim Petrovic, United States of America Scott Piercy, United States of America Ian Poulter, England Chez Reavie, United States of America Justin Rose, England Rory Sabbatini, South Africa Adam Scott, Australia John Senden, Australia Heath Slocum, United States of America Brandt Snedeker, United States of America Henrik Stenson, Sweden Kevin Streelman, United States of America Steve Stricker, United States of America David Toms, United States of America Kirk Triplett, United States of America Bo Van Pelt, United States of America Camilo Villegas, Colombia Nick Watney, United States of America Bubba Watson, United States of America Lee Westwood, England Mark Wilson, United States of America Y.E. Yang, Korea  
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14 Jun 2011, 03:39 PM
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Welcome back, Rich
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14 Jun 2011, 04:51 PM
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 Just for the Majors Nick...........
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15 Jun 2011, 11:15 PM
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Thank you for the information about this course. No wonder a golf course is not played on for an entire year to get the course ready if I am remembering correctly.
Double thank yous rich.  Should we expect some really low golf scores this week. Well hopefully it will not be as bad as Winged Foot.
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16 Jun 2011, 08:16 AM
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no low scores Peter...not IMO. Tough course. Typically in an Open they are fighting to stay around or just under par.
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