For the first time in 18 years, the U.S. Open will feature bermudagrass rough. Take a closer look at how the dense rough at The Los Angles Country Club’s North Course will present competitors with a variety of difficult lies and could factor into decision-making at the 2023 U.S. Open.
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Yeah until its cut down and all the penalty for missing the fairway is removed. And instead of keeping the course tough and penal you're just going to roll the ball back. Priorities are all wrong!
They said a couple days ago that the rough had NOT been growing due to the fact that the marine layer was sticking around way longer than expected. And that was 2 or 3 days ago. And now they're saying the rough is severe ?? Makes no sense to me
Guys at the USGA stop kidding yourselves! You make these videos about how tough it is and how thick the rough is each year, but in reality it’s not true. Go have a listen to what Tiger Woods himself said about the conditions of modern U.S. Opens vs the past. Theyre just not as tough. You guys seem afraid to make the fairways super narrow, and to grow the rough up thick enough where a drive into, is a wedge out each time. The golf courses don’t have to be 7800 yards and you don’t have to bifurcate golf balls either.
The rough should be a severe penalty as it always has at the US Open. And accuracy off the tee, driving the ball into the fairway should be rewarded. It would bring shorter accuracy players into contention as well, and not just the bombers. You fellows have really lost your way over there, and it’s obvious for even the average golf fan to see. Hopefully you find it one of these years, and give the fans something extraordinary to watch once again, and the challenge of a lifetime for the players, truly worth of the moniker US OPEN CHAMPION