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Oakmont, Pennsylvania – My God, Robert Macintyre was delighted. Chiffé, even. He led him as well as he can drive a golf ball. He found fairways and avoided thick things. He converted his difficult putts at a regular rate. The 28 -year -old Scot played golf and believes he is able to play on Thursday.
“This is up there in the top 10 of all the rounds I have played,” he said.
He even pulled by.
The United States Open is back in Oakmont Country Club this week, which means that the United States Open is back to the most difficult golf test. The superstars launched clubs and chips stamped in the turn 1. Rory McILroy transformed a first-nine in 41 on the way in. Sixteen golfers drawn in the 80s on a configuration by 70, and the only former major winners still under the peer are Brooks Koepka and Jon Rahm.
So, do not make the mistake of looking at an open American classification with a leader of 4 under the round 1 – and 10 total golfers under the peer – and think that you are deprived of the Oakmont potential to inflate the dashboards.
Golf so far is indeed bad. It’s hard. This is the second first round in the highest United States in 10 years, even higher than the last trip of Oakmont in 2016, and the top of the ranking will continue to return over four days. Because more than any other adult and any other course, an Oakmont US Open does not concern your highest level. These are your stockings on 72 holes.
So Adam Scott, a man playing in his third open to Oakmont, was asked what he thought it will take to win if he is not raining this weekend.
“I like more than four,” said Scott.
Ok, what does Macintyre think?
“You shoot on four levels of level level, you move away with a medal and a trophy,” he said.
Rory is currently in a battle with the PAR-5 4th. pic.twitter.com/zduqib36km
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The sun rising in the western sky of Pennsylvania at 6:40 am Thursday, Dr. Matthew Vogt settled on the first tee as a foreigner who believed. There was a dentist of McCordsville, in Ind., Who grew up outside Pittsburgh and obtained his way here in a qualifier of 36 holes at Walla Walla, Wash. He felt good in his training circles. He did not feel like a token, an original story, an old caddy oakmont taking a time from tee. He won this.
Vogt intensified to strike the opening blow of the US Open 125th, his eyes presenting no fear or doubt, and launched a journey so far to the left, he passed over the crude, from the neighboring ninth fairway and until the rough on the other side of n ° 9.
Credit where it is due, Vogt struck a fantastic recovery shot to save the peer. Unfortunately, Vogt was 12 on the ball when he finished in 82 shots.
“My God, honestly, I came with such optimism for this golf course,” said Vogt, “but it’s so difficult. It’s so hard. I would say that you have the impression of being struck in the face, but ultimately, yes, I would say that it was fun.”
It was not only a punishment for the dentist. A few minutes later, Tommy Fleetwood n ° 13, n ° 13, found the danger of the native region on the left and had to take a drop. An opening bogey began to make its way to a disappointing 44. Shane Lowry, the leader of 54 holes in Oakmont nine years ago, pulled a 79 despite an eagle in Trus on n ° 3. Dominant forces such as sport consensus – all drawn on 3 -over.
The 2016 United States Open here has been filled with constant rain and stop, and another 11 golfers finished the round 1 s. At the end of Sunday, there were only four. On Thursday, he was only 10 years old, and he will only become difficult every day.
There is a slight misunderstanding on the test that Oakmont creates. It is indeed the most difficult course of major golf course, but it is not the type with constant dangers or intimidating hills, which leads to obvious blowing holes and overwhelming penalties. It is a course that browses you again and again, little by little, slowly but surely, until he can recognize the real golfer still standing after four days of attrition.
Fairways are difficult, but not incredibly difficult to find. The course is long, but nothing wild according to modern standards. The Greens are comical, but they are large and landable. It’s a course that simply tests you in a simple way, but with each shot without a single break.
It is therefore not a question of decreased the leader on day 1. It is a question of knowing who can maintain the disasters constantly around the corner for 72 holes.
“Your head begins to turn here, and it moves away from you,” said Vogt.
Xander Schauffele is not the only former major champion sometimes disconcerted by Oakmont. (Patrick Smith / Getty Images)
McILroy seemed to be composed and stable at 2 sous nine. Then he bogey n ° 1, went to Par-5 n ° 4 and hit him directly in the thick and criminal native zone. It took him three hacks to return to the fairway, and it was impressive to do Bogey. He will start the second round on Friday tied at 63rd to 4.
“If you miss the fairway, it is essentially an AVC penalty,” said Jordan Spieth, who even shot the peer.
Patrick Reed made an albatrossess on n ° 4 to reach 2 sous and become one of the stories of the day. He was slowly, and on his last hole on the 18th, he found a bunker, went to a big rough from there, tried to become cute on the edge of the green and finally Triple Bogeyey to fall at 3. “When I looked at him earlier on the cover, the guys made the balls on the hills the 1 and 10. It will never happen again,” said Reed.
The Caddy of Macintyre had to remind him after each bad position that they had a plan and had to stick to it. Do not try to be a hero. It kept him alive. He was not the only one to hear that. “If you are out of position in the harsh, you lose control,” said Scott. “It can take two or three to bring it back to a place where you can control the next blow. It’s really relentless, really. “
JJ SPAUN is not your 18 -hole leader because he made four birdies. Many people have attached stoves together. He is the leader because he never let a hole move away from him. He is at the top because of his remarkable backups like that of n ° 4 of the church’s benches bunker.
“It is sort of the key to this tournament and this place simply does not lose your vapor,” said Spaun, “not losing your concentration and converting these putts saving from momentum.”
This is the other thing to recognize. The only two golfers to draw 67 years or better – Spaun and Thriston Lawrence – put in mind, both classified the first four in the field in traucots acquired on green. It is the least lasting competence in a course like this. Some of these putts will not fall on Friday. Or Saturday. Or Sunday.
Oakmont is indeed brutally difficult, and this will continue to be over the week. How do we know? Because even the golfer in third place, if Woo Kim, admits that he is not sure.
“Honestly, I don’t even know what I do on the course,” said Kim. “A little hit, but I have the impression that this course is too difficult for me.”
(Top photo of Trevor Gutschewski: Ross Kinnaird / Getty Images)
