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Originally Posted by ColdNoMore
Much like Augusta, what makes this course special is the opportunity on the finishing holes for players to make the risk/reward decision...and see big swings in their scores.
It's been a great US Open and I can't wait to watch...what happens on the back 9 today. 
Those who aren't interested in watching, can always go play one of the extremely daunting executive courses...that we have here in TV.  |
Actually, the final three holes were the easiest, second easiest and fourth easiest on the course today. They did not require a lot of risk reward decisions. The fifteenth did, but after that, it was pretty straight forward. And we didn't see a lot of big swings in their scores. Koepke kept making birdies while Harman didn't. Matsuyama had a low round but he was too far behind. Thomas and Fowler just shot themselves out of it early. Rickie didn't look confident at all. He seemed to have a worried look on his face all afternoon. It would have been a shock and a disappointment to see Tommy Fleetwood win, but he made a good showing.
I like Brooks Koepke as the winner. I think we'll see great things from him in the future. It would have been disappointing to see some of the other's win our national championship. We don't need more Jack Flecks or Lucas Glovers winning the US Open.
Hopefully, next year they'll put some teeth in Shinnecock.
As far as the executive courses you really should try to play Amberwood, Oakleigh, Belmont, Pelican, Yankee Clipper Truman and Roosevelt from the back tees if you think that they all that easy.
I'm a decent player and I had to hit several long irons into a lot of holes on those courses. And some of them have some very undulating greens. I played Palmer today from the blue tees and I'd say that those executives that I list are more challenging than Palmer.