The golf course looks fantastic! Looking forward to a great tournament.
+1
If I hear one more comparison to Chambers Bay I'm going to barf.
Erin Hills-slightly soft (for the moment) due to a wet spring and heavy rain earlier in the week.
While I get the modern need for "perfect" fescue, often mother nature doesn't cooperate and those who set up the course for an event (or daily play) have to make decision as to how much and where they want to cut it back.
But at least it's something that can be done.
It's certainly better than a bank of gorse which often lines one or both sides of fairways at great UK courses leaving even a smaller findable corridor to drive in with NO chace of finding or playing the ball.
The fact that 2 foot fescure is near a fairway is what some players find objectionable(forgetting how wide the actual corridor is), but narrowing the super wide fairways would satisfy that gripe and be a poor solution as it would disable angles.