Gentlemen,
I may well be under-informed but it seems to me that the USGA has had less input into re-configuring Pinehurst #2 that they have had with respect to previous U.S. Open venues. Is this, from afar, a valid impression?
I am more interested in how this U.S. Open plays out than I have been for many a year. I hope this is due to the course itself separating the sheep from the goats and not excessive rough demanding boring down the middle application. The wiry grasses in the waste areas are, to me, a far more interesting hazard than simply thicker grass.
It will be very interesting to see how things are changed, in terms of length I guess, when the women tackle it later in the season. I always feel that the ladies strategies in attacking any given hole would be more in line with how I might tackle things ( though no doubt, in my case, with considerably less expertise!).
Pat,
Are you afeart that mother nature will produce soggy greens, too much wind or what precisely. I would have thought that a course of this calibre would withstand the vagaries of nature … no?
Cheers Colin