To preview the 2024 U.S. Open, Golfweek interviews Jeff Hall, who is the Managing Director of Rules and Open Championships at the USGA, to give a detailed description of each hole at Pinehurst No. 2.
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[Music] ho 18 our finishing hole certainly sets up for a lot of drama we’ve seen some of that through the years I think players have Choice here off the tea you know some may want to play driver and try to bang it up here as far as they can Others May play you know a bit more of a strategy club and get it get it in play in this Fairway because it’s not a particularly long uh long hole to start with 450 yards a 280 yard t-shot which in this day and age is a three-wood it leaves 165 170 yard to this putting green as you can see with this green falls off all the way around false front and in the front is is significant plenty of area to place the whole location I suspect we may see something in this area for Mr Stewart’s dramatic p on on 18 and 1999 we’ll I’m sure replicate that moment on Sunday or well we’ll put the whole location there the players will have to try to replicate the moment but a really wonderful finishing hole where there is really an opportunity for that two shot swing somebody could make a bogey with a a careless t- shot into the uh Wire Grass areas and yet they should have a club in their hands where they can be it’s very scorable they can be a bit more aggressive if they need to make a three so looking forward to what’s going to happen here and there’ll be all kinds of energy around this putting green in June [Music]
