Golf: Usual mix of skill, patience needed at golf's toughest test

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The US Open has a reputation as golf's toughest test and a typically-exacting examination of skill and patience awaits the world's best players at ...

SAN DIEGO, California: The US Open has a reputation as golf's toughest test and a typically-exacting examination of skill and patience awaits the world's best players at the 121st staging of the major championship which starts on Thursday .

Players, however, will be more concerned with how deeply their balls nestle down in the wiry rough that, to listen to the players, will often be penal but also occasionally offer a reprieve. "So the discrepancy is big. It's a US Open. You're going to get good breaks and bad breaks," added Rahm.Several former champions weighed in, with Rory McIlroy perhaps the only contrarian.

"I think they've mowed it a little bit since Sunday because you were losing balls around the greens," Woodland said."It's brutal"."I don't think I would like it 20 times a year, but it's really fun for a week," said the 2012 winner."You feel like it's kind of survival every day.""If you don't hit the fairways, you're going to be in trouble," he said."The rough is playable.

 

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