Welcome into US Open week…or better known as the week that USGA takes a historic golf course and finds new and various techniques to destroy it. The only good thing that this week is that Mike Davis has relinquished his yearly butchering of the golf course and turned it over to John Bodenhamer who has run USGA amateur events since 2011. I have to believe John can not possibly screw up the course set-up anywhere close to what Mike Davis has done the last few decades. Again, the bar is not set very high.
The best thing of the week though is that we return to the West Coast meaning we receive primetime golf. I can’t start to tell you I am excited by this. Sunday breakfast in the Masters and Saturday night US Open golf at Pebble Beach two weeks apart is about as good as it gets in my opinion.
Let’s just assume John isn’t a complete idiot like Mike Davis and that he leaves well this week. We receive a US Open, as intended, on a historic course with tight fairways, long rough rather than a clown’s mouth in website. Going off this assumption I believe this week we are left with one of the leaderboards of this year. In other words, I believe the cream rises to the top this week. So with no real significant surprises how will the very best on earth shake this week? We break down the top contenders from the area for your 2019 US Open.
(As always, chances are at the time this has been written and will probably change throughout the week)
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