You’re halfway to a career grand slam. Of the two you’re still to win. Is there one you feel you’ve got a better chance than the other? US Open style or a length? I don’t think so. Um, you know, I think I I like both both styles of golf. I love kind of getting beat up at the US Open. I think that’s a fun a fun battle between us and us and the golf course. And then coming over here, like I said, you get to do a lot of stuff that I wouldn’t normally do. And um like around the greens here for for example when we’re in the states if we’re practicing short game around the green playing a practice round I probably will use two clubs. I’ll use a 60°ree and a 56. And here I’m bringing like five or six clubs sometimes all the way down to an 8 iron. And to me, it’s a it’s a much more traditional style of golf where um you can you can tell that the game is invented over here because if you come out here with a with an older gentleman who’s maybe a 10 handicap and he can’t really hit the ball very high, he can still play these golf courses because you can run the ball along the ground and um no matter where you are, there’s always a shot to be played. I think in the states we have to deal with a lot of grain and stuff like that around the greens and um you know some heavier rough and like when you look at let’s just compare the US Open and the Open Championship. Two totally different types of challenges. When you miss the green at the US Open, you’re basically going to hit a similar type of shot each time where you’re just opening the face with a 60 and trying to play like a bunker shot to get the ball close to the hole. Extremely difficult for anybody. It’s it’s something that I would say nobody’s really perfected how to do it. And then you get over here and I miss a green and I’m going to go over there assess the lie. You know, sometimes I may get a really clean lie. Sometimes I may get a really a thick lie. And with a thick line, I’m probably going to have to do more of my traditional open the face on the 60. Use play like a bunker shot. I get a clean lie and you know I may be using an 8 iron to pitch it up the slope or maybe a 50°ree depending on how much pitch there is in the slope. There’s uh over here I’d say there’s just more options and it’s just a little bit of a a different test than than some of the tests we see at home.

43 Comments

  1. And that’s the way Golf should be everywhere. It’s nice to play a different course, but the concept should be the same.

  2. Scotties talks about golf like kevin durant talks about basketball. I love how much detail they give when answering good questions.

  3. He explained exactly why I think links golf is the toughest. Different lies all the time, more often tight so you cant use the bounce on wedges as effectively as elsewhere.

  4. Why’s he always doggin on 10 handicaps? 🤣 we’re not THAT bad. I’ve scored in the low to mid 80’s for a full year now lowest being 78. Putting is our biggest nemesis

  5. The thing with Scottie is there is no crap talk that comes out of his mouth. He says it like it is. Some proper difficult courses in the USA, Bethpage Black, Oakmont to name two absolute brutes but there are plenty of nightmare courses here too but different factors come into it. Scottie recognises that and you have to be more creative with chipping and pitching, bump and runs are almost unheard of in the USA or at least not so common. Well done Scotty for explaining it to the masses

  6. great detailed answer… when was the last Time I actually learned something listening to a pro golfer talk?

  7. I enjoy watching the non European play in the Scottish and The Open over here. I just feel like The courses in the states are much the same where as over here you have undulation everywhere including fairways and greens. As Scottie’s says they don’t have to do to much thinking around the greens in the states

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