I would say that an over simplified set up allowed an untested child an opportunity to win a US Open. We were very close to having the oldest and then the youngest champions in the history of this great championship on the first two tries at this new mind set. This isn't supposed to be tee ball where everyone wins.
I'm not sure I understand. The golf ball didn't know how old In Bee walk in the Park was yesterday. She played beautiful golf. The rest of the contenders didn't.
Double bogies on #2 for Creamer and Lewis in the final group? What the heck happened! That's an easy hole. Someone somehow got over the back...a near-fatal mistake on a course where the main goal is to stay below the hole.
Sketchy sand play by anyone that left themselves with medium to long bunker shots...no doubt worried about hitting it over.
Again Lewis and Creamer - BOTH over the back on #9! This happened in part because the tee was pulled back, leaving a longer approach. The shape of the green mandates that you have the right club and execute. Wrong on either and you suffer.
Creamer on #10...goes for the green (why?) and then plops her pitch into a branch. Poor course management on someone forced to desperation because the leader was not wavering.
Alfredsson missing short putts all day. Ouch. She's snakebit.
On the good side, how about Park's approach on #15! Unreal back to that hole location. Creamer tried the same and came up on the side of the mounded green. Execution.
You may call a walk in the park boring, but others celebrated Woods' runaways in 1997 and 2000. Park's romp was along those lines yesterday, with the exception that she's not an overpowering golfer
a la Alfredsson or Wie.
She had it on cruise control. Boring if you say it is, but I'm sure I'm not the only one that was duly impressed by a player whose game was in another league. Sorenstam had been striking it beautifully all week and needed a holeout to break 80. Park put pressure on everyone by eliminating mistakes. That's not unusual in the U.S. Open.
The oversimplified setup certainly had enough teeth on Sunday when there was some wind.