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I dunno....I've been watching the US open,  and the rough doesn't impress me.  It looks ragged, but easy..........IMO

considering how shaggy/ragged it looks, yea...It's the US Open, but really??????????????????????????

With that said, my home course rough is nearly as bad!!!  Miss a fairway/Ur...screwed!@

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Our rough looks nice, right?  LOL...........I am standing behind my ball!!!

On closer inspection:

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Miss a fairway on my course........and you have serious issues..............

I've been watching the US Open......IMO, the course setup is a big weak.  Heck...I nearly play that kind of rough every day!!!

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Must be nice. There are almost no courses around where I live that have rough anything like what you have. Don't know about the private courses, don't get to play them, but all the public courses have little to no rough. Not that they can't have it, it's just that it would slow play up too much. Even the Robert Trent Jones courses the rough is very playable but at the same time it's not as nearly as wide as in your photo and beyond that your lucky to find your ball in knee high grass.

As far as the Open goes from what I've seen, the rough looks fair. The course setup the last couple of years the rough has not been so harsh that the players just have to take a wedge and hack it out, they at least give the players a chance.

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13 under after two days?  An unprecendented score in the US Open.  The rough must be a little tame, the greens a little easier than usual, or something.  Sure, he's a talented kid, and it probably sounds like I'm taking away from his play a little but...   but it's also possible the conditions are more suited to 131 after two rounds than many/most/all other recent Open venues.

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i definitely feel there is something out of whack but couldn't give a clue as to what it is.  Its not that Rory has had to worry too much about the rough(he's been hitting on a string since it started) but his score is just so absurd compared to everyone else.

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The scores in general seem a tad low for a US Open---usually it seems that a couple under par is the leader.  Even neglecting McIlroy, there are a bunch of guys at -2 after two days.  However, I'd say that means it's just a tiny bit easier than usual, because it really doesn't look like anyone else will go much below -4 or -5.

McIlroy at -11 (and Yang at -5) after two days just means he (they) are having a great couple rounds---if the course were "easy" we'd have a lot of other guys pushing low.  I'd expect tougher pin positions for the weekend, so I would be very surprised if anyone else shoots super-low...

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Yes....

ELEVEN under.

Not picky at all, just correcting me.  Thanks.

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well the key is the amount of rain they have gotten. That makes for a soft course and if you put these guys on a soft course, they are gong to be impressive. I think maybe they could have narrowed the fairways a bit or something.

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That rough doesn't look bad at all.

Try playing on a links course with rough grown upto your knees and see how you get on..............

Originally Posted by BuckeyeNut

I dunno....I've been watching the US open,  and the rough doesn't impress me.  It looks ragged, but easy..........IMO

considering how shaggy/ragged it looks, yea...It's the US Open, but really??????????????????????????

With that said, my home course rough is nearly as bad!!!  Miss a fairway/Ur...screwed!@

Our rough looks nice, right?  LOL...........I am standing behind my ball!!!

On closer inspection:

Miss a fairway on my course........and you have serious issues..............

I've been watching the US Open......IMO, the course setup is a big weak.  Heck...I nearly play that kind of rough every day!!!



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It's really a challenge for the USGA to make the course play hard.   They can't control the weather and it's rained almost every day.   Yes the rough is a bit less than I would have expected but I'm sure they had factored in a certain amount of firmness.   The fairways and greens have been made much easier by the rain and there's also been little to no wind.     Mother nature neutered what could have been a a very difficult course/setup.

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Originally Posted by trickymicky69

That rough doesn't look bad at all.

Try playing on a links course with rough grown upto your knees and see how you get on..............

Ya mean like this??............LOL

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Thin to win won't work here.......LOL.  Prairie grass defines the course and is present on every hole.  Forced carries off every tee and placed in just that right spot to catch any ball that strays too far from the fairway. You can't play from it....lost ball and 2 stroke penalty virtually every time you find it....

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Originally Posted by GolfBear

It's really a challenge for the USGA to make the course play hard.   They can't control the weather and it's rained almost every day.   Yes the rough is a bit less than I would have expected but I'm sure they had factored in a certain amount of firmness.   The fairways and greens have been made much easier by the rain and there's also been little to no wind.     Mother nature neutered what could have been a a very difficult course/setup.


I agree on the rain and soft greens, but there is no excuse for the weak rough.  they had all of 2011 to grow some rough, and they failed to do so.

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The week before it was almost 100 every day so they had to water the greens heavily to keep them from getting out of hand. The week of it rained almost every day at some point so the greens got softer than expected. It was the greens that created scoring opportunities if they could have got them as firm and fast as they like all those shots out of the rough wouldn't have held on the green. The rough was about 4 inches long which would have been suitable if the greens were firm and fast but weather didn't allow it. The only thing I thought they could have done better was made them play more yardage except for saturday since it's moving day.

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i have to say this...but to take something away from rory in this case would be incredibly wrong to do. was the rough incredibly penal compared to other years? eh...i'd say prolly it's about normal. the scoring came in the greens. as for rory...you can't talk about his score and how it would've been or not been impacted by the rough since he was basically NEVER in it...

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I would agree with the above that it was the greens that made the course easier than many US Opens.  The rough was penal but was mitigated by the soft greens.  But what Rory did in putting away the competition was remarkable.  They all got to play the same course, he just played it better.

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