[Dr Winston O Boogie jr]

Originally Posted by simpkinp

I am very disappointed so far. Not only is the course ugly (and they keep calling it beautiful), but by the shots I see, not as hard as they made it out to be. Two men are -5 the first round already? And many more close behind. Not what they promised us. Didn't they say the golfers would struggle to make pars? Maybe it will be different tomorrow, some wind, harder pin placement. Unfortunately it will still be ugly. Oh, and interesting commentators, Curt Menefee and Joe Buck? Will Bradshaw, Howie and Michael be on tomorrow? Sure like that kid "Hammer" though.

You evidently didn't watch the threesome of Tiger Wood, Ricky Fowler and Louis Oosthuizen.

The projected cut is +3. the average cut at a regular tour event is minus two or three.

So far, the leaders halfway through the second round are at -6. Johnson will probably get to -7 as I watch.

The main problem that I see with the golf course is that it gives a huge advantage to bombers which is exactly the opposite of what the US Open has been about throughout it's history. The USGA has always put more emphasis on accuracy and precision than distance. There seem to be a lot of holes where it gets very wide if you can cut the corner. That is exactly what happened when John Daly won the PGA Championship at Crooked Stick. The fairways narrowed up in the landing areas and many of them doglegged right or left. Daly was able to hit it over the corner of the dogleg not making his landing area huge but giving him very short clubs into the greens. I fear that that is exactly what's happening here. Dustin Johnson should run away with this.