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A little late, but this month's schedule:

 

June 7-10: Stanford St. Jude Championship, TPC Southwind, Memphis, TN (Jeff Maggert)

June 14-17: U.S. Open, Oakmont CC, Oakmont, PA (Geoff Ogilvy)

June 21-24: Travelers Championship, TPC River Highlands, Cromwell, CT (J.J. Henry)

June 28-July 1: Buick Open, Warwick Hills G&CC, Grand Blanc, MI (Tiger Woods)

 

Adam Scott is in the process of gagging away yet another tournament on Sunday. Triple-bogey on 14 and he's 4 back after starting the day with a 3-shot lead. Worse, he's 4 behind WOODY AUSTIN.

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Austin has some momentum headed into Winged Foot, with the current season's best finishing round of 62 good enough to win.

 

I'm looking forward to the tournament itself next week, but the course sounds like it's going to be sinister.

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Austin has some momentum headed into Winged Foot, with the current season's best finishing round of 62 good enough to win.

 

I'm looking forward to the tournament itself next week, but the course sounds like it's going to be sinister.

If it wasn't sinister, it wouldn't be a US Open, would it?

 

Oh, and it's Oakmont. Winged Foot was last year.

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Good win for Woody today. I always pull for that guy for some reason. I still remember several years ago when he was a lock to win the MCI Classic and Davis Love III chipped in for birdie way off the green on the 18th hole and beat him in a playoff (where Woody missed two putts in sudden death that would have won him the title). Looking at the scores players were shooting on the course all week there, Austin's 62 is very impressive.

 

I guess the curse of Australian players not being able to close out victories claims another victim in Scott. Maybe this guy is the next Norman after all (which pains me to say since I love the Shark)...

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I can't believe I said Winged Foot. My email is through the Golf Channel, and they've been hyping up Oakmont for about 3 weeks now.

 

Good call on the sinister thing. I don't mind a winning score near or over par a couple times a year, but I don't want 8 or 9-over to be the best either. That being said, I think we're in for a treat if it's nearly as entertaining as last year was. And this is coming from a Mickelson guy.

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Wow. That really makes it unfair for the short hitters. The top 20 or 30 in driving distance on the tour can reach that with a 3W, for everyone else it's going to be a driver. Nice. Good luck holding that green hitting a driver into it.

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These greens are ridiculously fast to begin with. They had to slow them down for a prior Open.

 

This tournament is going to be insane. Also, they said that they were going to use different tees on each day for a number of holes, probably including the aforementioned 8th. I'll be stunned if someone shoots 6 over for the tourney.

 

Also, I believe that the 8th is not a downhill hole. I've got Vijay to win it, btw. Tiger's going to have to break out the driver and he will get punished by the horrific rough.

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I'm gonna go with Furyk. Perfect game for this course, past US Open champion, and hometown boy.

 

I think we can write off Phil with his wrist injury. I don't want to be the one to play this card, but Tiger looked pretty average (by his standards, at least) in The Players and the Memorial. Coupled with the way Zach Johnson, a first-time major winner, held his composure on Masters Sunday with Tiger breathing down his neck....I'm inclined to pick the field this week.

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I like Els to miss the cut.

 

I've got Padraig Harrington finally winning a major.

 

As silly as it seems to predict a former champion to miss the cut....things aren't exactly right on track for Els' three-year plan, are they?

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For people saying how tough the course is, I'd like someone especially Tiger to rip through this course with like a -12.

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I can't wait to see this course on Sunday.

 

The rough is sick. No way that Phil finishes this tournament.

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