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Official 2013 U.S. Open at Merion Discussion Thread

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Originally Posted by Shorty

Next there'll be threads here where someome notices that they saw a player putting with the flag in 40 years ago.

Which, by the way, was once allowed. Not sure when the rule change happened, but here's a pic of Tommy Bolt at the 1958 US Open (which he won):


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Landing area on #16. The fairway bamks up to the right but it is very narrow and nobody will try to hit it up there. It's a short iron over the quarry to the hole, so they will most probably play shor

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Ehem...

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The ridiculous thing is not that Phil is flying back for his daughter's 8th grade graduation, it is that her school is even HAVING an 8th grade graduation.  Alas this is becoming far too common.

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Originally Posted by Motley01

Phil hater? Haters gonna hate. What so you can justify criticizing him because he went home on Monday. Phil stuffed that in your jacket yesterday dude.

LOL....actually, I am about as big of PMick fan as there is....just that those first couple of tee balls were a bit skanky...maybe a bit of reverse jinx psychology??

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Not saying he'll win. There's a lot of tough golf left. But the field is sliding back steadily toward Tiger. He's T16 at the moment. Was T 50 something this morn...
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Yeah, Tigs even par round was actually pretty solid as far as not giving up ground...

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Originally Posted by colin007

Yeah, Tigs even par round was actually pretty solid as far as not giving up ground...

I think even par should be a solid round for Saturday and Sunday. Only a hand full of players shot under par today. One of the reasons why I like the US Open.

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That's I chose even par as the score to win. Just got the wrong player shooting it (Kuchar).


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I feel kind of like a hater for saying this, but I'm half-way rooting against Phil. No particular reason other than I want Luke Donald to win.


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I never understood why commentators and such thought Marion was going to get massacred. It didn't make much sense too me, especially considering how high the rough was going to be and the speed of the greens.

Also, it's the US Open, for Christs sake. Mike Davis would import deadly animals and sic them on the players if he could.

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Originally Posted by Lash

The guys on TV said most of them would leave a tee or something along with their normal marker so that it wouldn't be moved. And yes, they kept the same pin locations to finish out the first round.

You pin the marker down by placing three tees around it so that it can't move with wind or anything else.


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Just watching the end of Phil's round, what a competitor!  Great to see him playing well and also good to see Merion is playing tough.

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We could see a winner at over par.

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ESPN, Enough with the interviews of the USGA guy or the grounds keeper guy or some other random guy we don't care about!  We want to see golf, not three bald guys talk about Merion.  If you really want to talk, show players golfing while you talk.

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zipazoid Great Member

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We could see a winner at over par.

If there's no more rain, I agree.


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Okay this is stupid -

They got Rich Lerner on TGC reporting live next to the 18th green, just pontificating about Merion. He has to keep his voice down as players are nearby on the green....

How about MOVING AWAY FROM THE GREEN?!?


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