2022 US Open (Golf) - The Country Club in South Brookline, MA

moretsyndrome

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This is almost the perfect Open. A few guys are playing their balls off and gathering just a few under par.
No clown golf where you miss by an inch and the ball flies 100 yards past the hole. Just really challenging conditions making for compelling competition.
That being said, that’s a horrible hook, Fitzy
 

LogansDad

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This was a fantastic tournament. Can't believe Willy's putt slid by.

Fitzpatrick's caddy losing it was too cool. Sports are good.
40 years as a caddy. First major. Awesome.

That shot out of the sand on 18, all things considered, is one of the better shots I have ever seen.
 

LogansDad

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This is almost the perfect Open. A few guys are playing their balls off and gathering just a few under par.
No clown golf where you miss by an inch and the ball flies 100 yards past the hole. Just really challenging conditions making for compelling competition.
That being said, that’s a horrible hook, Fitzy
This is spot on. The course was absolutely spectacular.
 

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This is almost the perfect Open. A few guys are playing their balls off and gathering just a few under par.
No clown golf where you miss by an inch and the ball flies 100 yards past the hole. Just really challenging conditions making for compelling competition.
That being said, that’s a horrible hook, Fitzy
Yes, this. The course was FAIR and difficult.
 

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Just for the record I was rooting against him but now, as is often the case, I feel like an idiot.
 
The setup was absolutely fair. It could have been a *touch* more difficult and still been on the right side of fair to me, but it made for a compelling tournament in which birdies could be made.

What wasn't fair - and is true of pretty much every tournament, and certainly every US Open - is the fact that shots missing the fairway by 5 yards were usually much worse than shots missing the fairway by 10 yards, into the trampled down areas. Fitzpatrick and Zalatoris on #15 is the prime example of this; I mean, at this point they might as well circle every trampled down area, declare it ground under repair and force players to take mandatory relief at the nearest point inside of the ropes in the deep rough. (All of the complaints about divots in the fairways...but this is a much more common issue, and between the trampled down areas and all of the TIO relief, extreme waywardness too often gets rewarded over marginal waywardness.)
 

Don Bradman

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That was great. NBC blows. But the US open at Brookline was great.
Agree about both. On NBC, people keep saying Sky is so much better, so I found a stream and watched from around 3 p.m. to the finish. It was pretty much the same. They used the exact video feed and there were almost as many commercial breaks (but at least 'interesting' commercials I hadn't seen 5 million times), including a couple during NBC's no-ad last hour. They did not have the 'playing through' nonsense so during those periods you had full screen of whatever NBC was showing with Sky commentary. I was trying to listen to both, which is hard, and I like the Sky commenters but in the short time I followed I didn't find them dramatically better than the NBC crew. I'm sure others who've listened to both more extensively have different opinions. I will seek this out again during the Open and expect a larger difference between the broadcasts.