Has anyone made any links to any potential crossover courses ? Northeast golf in particular.
Merion perhaps? Similar yardage and Par 70.
Look for Phil to have a good week.
These are the insights you can only find in the DG forum.
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More seriously, I do think it’s really hard to assess how a new course will play. Even basic things like yardage can be misleading. Players seem to get things consistently wrong in the lead up to new courses at majors. For this week, I don’t know anything about the course; it looks like a course the architecture community will like. But no idea how it will play.
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From what I’ve seen (course fly overs and insights from those “in the know” on X), the fairways don’t seem to be as tight as Merion. And I doubt they’ll have the rough as gnarly as it was for that Merion US Open.
Too me, it seems closer to near by Aronimink. Another Par 70 with similar length and hole designs. Last time Aronimink hosted an event (2018 BMW), the guys went pretty low. But if I remember correctly, they had a ton of rain that week so they had a soft course.
If I had to bet (which I will in a couple of days), I think it’ll play pretty easy for this field this week barring any high winds.
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Don’t see 66.8 scoring averages at Merion.
Haha definitely not. What’s amazing to me is the field averaged 80% (!!) GIR today. That’s insanely high.
The greens aren’t that large. But they were extremely receptive. And hitting approach shots from the rough wasn’t very penal.
And of course, a lot more rain coming on Friday.
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Only course to average over 80% for the week since 2015 is Kapalua (multiple times).