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When the average player watches the u.s. open, it is difficult to get a handle on how difficult a US Open Golf course the week of the tournament.Allow me to give you an idea on the type of courses we usually play to compare.
The average male golfer will play a job that between 6300 and 6800 feet in length, this week they will play Pebble Beach on almost 7100 feet long. This is actually short for modern US Open courses, the last few played between 7300 and 7400 feet long. When is the last time you played a 500-yard par 4?
In addition to the average person hits in a fairway that 30 to 40 metres wide while staring at the US Open participants fairways with a width of 22 to 29 meters wide on average. this narrow fairways are usually very strong and if it's not raining very hard that makes it very difficult to keep the ball in the fairway. A big reason for this is that the USGA during the tournament, the amount of water that is used to a minimum.
If they are from the fairway in the second reduction of rough are different, they are now looking forward to your ball in raw that is the length of your lawn, IF U DIDN'T CUT IT for a couple of weeks.They can just 200 meters from the green but they do have a Sand Wedge in their hand, because they try to advance the ball back for the fairway.
The fun doesn't stop when they're on the greens.The speed of a green during the US Open is usually 30 to 50 percent faster than the speed of the average public course green and on occasion the USGA has let the speed outing which greens faster than anyone could ever imagine. Even tour players.
The best story I ever heard about how hard a US Open course is came from Phil Mickelson.A few years ago, he was asked "how hard is it to an open course of U.S. games?".
He told how he was playing with a friend of him on the Monday after playing in the open at Shinnecock Hills in the Middle 1990s. Phil said his friend who has a handicap of 0 at a club in San Diego, a good player who usually around par shoots.Shinnecock Hills on Monday to play the same course under the same conditions as the Sunday, his friend shot 105.
I think that says it all.
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