The average is golfer is lucky if they get to play a single one of those courses in their lifetime. MacIntyre will be playing all of them, back to back to back to back.
Architecture’s best rule is: Use what’s there. Sometimes that’s a perfect landscape, a Shinnecock Hills with wild grasses, sand ridges, a distant bay. Sometimes it’s Florida citrus land, a pasture and canals.
Off the tee Thomas used Titleist’s new TS3 driver, a club he put in play the first week it was on the USGA’s Conforming List of Driver Heads at the US Open at Shinnecock.
Phil Mickelson’s brush with the rule book got him in hot water at Shinnecock Hills. Unlike his actions at the US Open, however, Mickelson’s latest snafu was self-enforced.
Did you wait until the last minute to find a place to stay while attending this week’s US Open at Shinnecock Hills? Well, you’re in luck, because there’s a stunning rental house in the Hamptons that’s still available. And it’ll only cost you $US500,000.
Rickie Fowler’s pursuit of a first Major championship will continue next week at the US Open. For now, he’s content celebrating one of life’s major milestones.
All is not lost for Scott. There is another cutoff for players inside the top 60 in the world after the FedEx St Jude Classic (June 11), just as US Open week begins.
Australian Golf Digest
