There won’t be any 63s in this US Open. The winning score will NOT be 16-under par. Which, whether they admit it or not, is a relief to officials at the USGA.
Tiger is back playing, which sure beats the hell out of where he was a year ago this week – on the couch and watching on television as Brooks Koepka obliterated Erin Hills.
While the tour is to be commended for trying something like this, where pace of play is overtly enforced, it’s little more than symbolic without the tour’s top golfers participating in the endeavour.