PINEHURST BABY!!!!
It doesn’t get much better than this.
US Open golf at the American capital of golf.
The US Open typically serves as golf’s greatest test.
Across 3 US Opens at Pinehurst No.
Plus the course and the weather should lead to a baked out and absurdly challenging test of golf.
Last year’s leaderboard and recent winners, along with the 2014 leaderboard from Pinehurst.
2023 Leaderboard
2014 Leaderboard at Pinehurst No.
2
Recent Winners
Major Champions at Pinehurst
The Course
Pinehurst No.
2 is an American gem.
It’s as tasty as it gets.
This image really accentuates how the course has changed since the restoration.
This leads to a minefield of nasty stuff if you get a little wayward off the tee.
Either way its a challenge and penal if you miss.
Of course, the star of this course is the green complexes.
Virtually every green here is a turtleback shell.
Everything slopes off the green in every direction.
Tying into all of that is the course is a lengthy 7,540 for a par 70.
As it should be.
Which means they’re jamming the Cock down everybody’s throats.
Format
This is golf’s largest field at 156 players.
So they’ll be off early and playing well into the early evening.
The Trophy
It’s glorious.
This is the one.
This is the one ya dream about.
Legendary characters from Hogan to Nicklaus to Palmer to Woods hoisted this thing.
So many trophies want to be this one but there’s only one.
Plus the gold medal to go with it.
The Board
Scottie Scheffler is obvvvvvviously a heavy favorite here at an absurd +280.
That’ll happen when you win 5 of the last 8 events you’ve played.
And everything I described about what it takes to win this tournament above…. screams Scottie Scheffler.
It’s really hard to imagine him not being right there at the finish line.
Who can challenge him?
His T-4 here in 2014 when he was a relative nobody was his first of his career.
Cameron Smith To Win +5000/Top 10 +350- Tight lies and using the putter off the greens?
Feels a lot like an Open in that regard and certainly a strong suit of Cam.
Shane Lowry Top Win +8000/Top 10 +600- Similar to Cam.
Also T-6 at the PGA, so this is value.
Denny McCarthy Top 20 +320- It’s going to require some grit out there this week.
Very underrated and great length.
Worth a flyer given the good history here.
He’s going to win this week, it feels inevitable.
Go for him Top 5 +300 end of Round 1 too.
Let’s have ourselves a week.
Enjoy the US Open.
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