Oakmont final day thoughts?

U.S. Open - 2007

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Old 06-19-2007, 09:25 AM
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Originally Posted by 12 piece bucket View Post
I don't get it. If the best players in the world are averaging 77 or whatever on a golf course . . . something is afoul. What's the big deal about them making a birdie. The USGA is selfabsorbed. Tweeking these old courses to "protect" them and par is like putting a mustashe on the mona lisa. It's not golf. The guys at the Masters are doing the same thing. Bobby Jones wouldn't recognize his golf course.
From what I have read I don't think the USGA had to do much to Oakmont other than cut the rough and slow down the greens!!!
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