The US Open is as much a mental test as it is physical. Still, the rules violation Shane Lowry found himself in Friday afternoon at Oakmont was so absurd that he and Rory McIlroy could only laugh at it.
There are a lot of spots at Oakmont where you don’t want to hit your golf ball. But there’s one spot at Oakmont where you really don’t want to hit your golf ball because for most of the first round, it was an automatic bogey.
After finishing a nine-hole practice round Wednesday with a few lob shots from the gnarly rough to the back-right corner of the 18th green at Oakmont Country Club, Adam Scott shook hands with a few volunteers and then signed autographs.
Adam Scott is hungry to right the wrongs from a missed cut at the 2007 US Open at Oakmont which he concedes was “the worst I’ve ever played in a major.”
The future of Sydney’s Moore Park Golf Course has ignited renewed scrutiny after internal government documents, cited by The Daily Telegraph, revealed the NSW Government announced plans to halve the layout before key financial impacts were finalised.
Just over a week ago, Adam Scott joined Rory McIlroy for a scouting mission at Oakmont Country Club. Descriptions of the world’s toughest golf course seem credible when you hear two Masters champions played well, and were still given an absolute bollocking by the Pittsburgh area course.
The topic of Rory McIlroy’s driver has been red-hot after his big dog was deemed non-conforming during the week of the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow.
If Oakmont Country Club represents one of the most difficult tests in professional golf, in at least one sense it will be starkly simple: a shot from the fairway means a player can think about how he wants to play the shot to the green, whereas a ball in the rough will suggest he shouldn’t even bother.
Australian Golf Digest
