There was plenty of complaining about the condition of the golf course and especially the greens. If the course was that bad why did the winner beat under par? Anybody realize three of the last five
U.S. Opens the winner had matched par or one over to win. Rory shot 16 under and last year 9 under at Pinehurst were the only under par scores. More than half of the scores in the history of the tournament have been over par. Since 1970 when golf courses have become manicured the scores have been under par more.
So the golf was good I wish I had of been able to have seen the results of many of the shots or putts. Fox loved to show long range shots of drives where they used a tracer so you could follow the ball. What they needed to do was use the tracer on putts. The greens were so brown the ball was lost many times blending into the greens or should I say browns. Once Fox would zoom the camera in to follow the ball we could see it other wise missed most putts.
I have HD TV but that wasn't much good either. The blonde interviewer who stood in front of a monitor and tried to interview certain players. Where did they get her from. Friday after Jason Day had collapsed her interview question to Jordan Speith was where is your head now after Day's spell. What kind of question is that to ask the leader of the tournament?
The blimp shots made the course look like a sand pit that was no longer used and had grass growing is spots. I thought the course was really unfair when you drive the ball almost in the left rough but before it gets through rolling it has plunked in the right rough.
If we had a hard time following the ball how do you think the cameramen felt? There were way too many shots where the camera had no idea where the ball was and several times announcers were describing shots and the camera shot on TV was of something else. Despite all the bad things getting to watch the U.S. Open four nights in a row til after 10:30 is hard to beat.
He didn't win but Jason Day just might have won a million fans for his effort. I had major knee surgery in 1974. It took me ten years before I had enough confidence not to watch every step I took because one little pebble if I stepped on it wrong would flip my knee out and I would be flat on my face. I know Day's every movement he had to be thinking am I going down again? All think in the middle of the U.S. Open.
What more could any golf fan ask for? The winner Jordan Speith made a birdie on the last hole to take the lead and had to watch Dustin Johnson missed a ten footer to win. Then missed again. We will always remember Johnson's three putt for bogey but he made par and lost. This tournament truly is the sign there is a new king of golf. Tiger has his worse tournament ever and Speith becomes only the sixth player ever to win the Masters and U.S. Open in the same year. The only problem I see is there will be no golf Monday night.
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