December marks the final month of the year and with it brings the final Major of 2020 with this week’s US Women’s Open at Champions Golf Club in Houston.
It’s a conversation that has been amplified in 2020, partially due to the R&A and USGA’s Distance Insights Project but mostly because of Bryson DeChambeau.
Lewis officially claimed her spot overnight when the USGA announced the 10 players who had been added to the field based on their positions on the 2020 LPGA Tour moneylist.
The decision falls in line with the USGA holding the US Open at Winged Foot in September with no spectators. Additionally, the LPGA has yet to play any event where fans have been permitted since resuming its schedule on July 31.
Whatever ones lingered about whether Bryson DeChambeau’s plan to bulk up and hit the ball as far as possible would hold up in the cauldron and nuance of Major championship golf have been answered. This week at Winged Foot, he killed nuance.
While the rest of the field succumbed to Winged Foot, Reed fought back. Which is how golf’s lone wolf was the only one howling after 36 holes, Reed’s temerity and fortitude rewarded with the halfway lead.
The first green has so much hustle and flow, the USGA specifically tells players that its handling it differently than the other 17th, maintaining it a slower speed so that the ridiculousness doesn’t become too sublime.
Since he began his US Open quest as a professional in 1992 at Pebble Beach – where he missed the cut – it’s only the fourth time that Mickelson will not be a part of the most compelling part of this show.
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