# US Open (Golf) Thread, and is anyone going. **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [June 10, 2011, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-open-golf-thread-and-is-anyone-going/584975 "2011-06-10T14:00:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-open-golf-thread-and-is-anyone-going/584975/21 "2011-06-17T17:04:42Z")
Yep, the scene on 18 looked like four-somes at my club. Except four-somes have ball retrievers. ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-open-golf-thread-and-is-anyone-going/584975/22 "2011-06-17T22:57:37Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > Seen a lot of blue shirts in the gallery. Haven’t seen any blue shirts with just a head though. 😃 You just weren’t looking hard enough. I didn’t follow McIlroy around as the crowd was crazy. I sat on the 10th hole for most of the morning and saw the majority of the morning people come through. I started walking around noon. The course made it really hard to follow one person so I ditched that idea. I ended up sitting at the green for 15. That seems like a really hard par 4, I saw Els, Furyk and Love bogey it. 18 just seems like it’s too hard, the green is really thin and the grass is mowed so the balls go right into the water on three sides. I think it’s too much for a par 4 and it should be a par 5. I hope it’s a good weekend. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2011, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-open-golf-thread-and-is-anyone-going/584975/23 "2011-06-18T00:50:50Z")
Well since everyone is playing the same golf hole, the par is basically irrelevant. It is not playing the toughest to par thus far, that honor goes to hole #11, which looks like more of a brute to me. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2011, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-open-golf-thread-and-is-anyone-going/584975/24 "2011-06-18T05:52:24Z")
Reportedly Anthony Kim made four errors on Y.E. Yang’s scorecard today, but Yang caught all of them before signing his card. I knew Kim was a partier, but holy shit, was he drunk on the course? _Four mistakes?_ He’s lucky Yang didn’t tell his caddie to go and kick Kim’s ass. ---
**Author:** ![brocks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7feea3/32.png) [@brocks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brocks)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2011, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-open-golf-thread-and-is-anyone-going/584975/25 "2011-06-18T11:22:43Z")
It’s stupid that players have to add up their own scores, and it’s abysmally stupid that they can get DQ’d if they make an error. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2011, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-open-golf-thread-and-is-anyone-going/584975/26 "2011-06-18T14:51:05Z")
> [@brocks](#): > > It’s stupid that players have to add up their own scores, and it’s abysmally stupid that they can get DQ’d if they make an error. IIRC, Players do not have to add up there own scores. They are only responsible for the score on each hole. so yes they have to add up to 3 or 4 or 5 or 6, but they are not responsible to add the score to 73. there was an issue a few years back in a junior tournament. on the local level where there was a kid with a learning disability was unable to add up his score on each hole. The kids were not allowed caddies. IIRC, there was no provision for a person (parent) to tell his playing competitor what the kid made on each hole and he had to be disqualified. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2011, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-open-golf-thread-and-is-anyone-going/584975/27 "2011-06-18T15:22:22Z")
Haven’t been able to confirm the Anthony Kim/YE Yang story. All I found was a entry in OkSt forum alleging an John Anderson story. Haven’t found anything substantial. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2011, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-open-golf-thread-and-is-anyone-going/584975/28 "2011-06-18T17:09:32Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > Haven’t been able to confirm the Anthony Kim/YE Yang story. All I found was a entry in OkSt forum alleging an John Anderson story. Haven’t found anything substantial. It was reported on ESPN last night. It was from John Anderson. ---
**Author:** ![sitchensis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sitchensis/32/4892_2.png) [@sitchensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sitchensis)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2011, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-open-golf-thread-and-is-anyone-going/584975/29 "2011-06-18T19:04:11Z")
How can anybody watch this shit. I love watching golf, but it has been an hour and I don’t think they have shown three shots in a row. I didn’t tune in to see a bunch of interviews, commercials and boring conversations about presidential golf. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2011, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-open-golf-thread-and-is-anyone-going/584975/30 "2011-06-18T20:51:50Z")
Was there a weather disruption earlier? That seems a bit late for the last pair to be going out otherwise. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2011, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-open-golf-thread-and-is-anyone-going/584975/31 "2011-06-18T21:01:55Z")
Yes, the weather disruption was yesterday and they finished up round 2 this morning. USGA decided not to squeeze the times with threesomes and split tees. Instead they went with two-somes, #1 tee only, and 10 minute increments on tee times. Any more weather issues today, and they will not finish round 3 today. We were stuck with a lot of vignettes (fluff) early in the telecast, that no one really wants to see. ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2011, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-open-golf-thread-and-is-anyone-going/584975/32 "2011-06-18T21:21:32Z")
There was some nasty rain yesterday. I was soaked in a couple of minutes. I don’t believe there’s going to be any rain today, which is a good thing. Glad to see McIlroy not fall apart. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2011, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-open-golf-thread-and-is-anyone-going/584975/33 "2011-06-19T18:48:07Z")
I don’t know if anyone has thought about this yet, but Rory could be the next Tiger Woods! ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2011, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-open-golf-thread-and-is-anyone-going/584975/34 "2011-06-19T20:01:35Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > I don’t know if anyone has thought about this yet, but Rory could be the next Tiger Woods! I prefer if Rory stayed like Rory, humble, grounded, polite, respectful. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2011, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-open-golf-thread-and-is-anyone-going/584975/35 "2011-06-19T20:29:34Z")
It was a joke. BTW, this course is playing too easy. Nothing taken away from RM, but look at how many people are under par. The US Open should have a winning score around par. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2011, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-open-golf-thread-and-is-anyone-going/584975/36 "2011-06-19T21:03:45Z")
They made the conscious decision to cut down on the height of the rough, and then to compound that it’s been a bit wet and rather windless, both of which make it easier to execute shots. But yeah the rough will probably be back to 4-6 inches for next year (Olympic Club). ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2011, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-open-golf-thread-and-is-anyone-going/584975/37 "2011-06-19T23:11:58Z")
29 players finished under par at the 1990 US Open at Medinah. this year there will be around 20. ---
**Author:** ![Implicit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Implicit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Implicit)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2011, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-open-golf-thread-and-is-anyone-going/584975/38 "2011-06-19T23:20:56Z")
The course certainly got easier through the tournament due to the rain, by my count 12 people shot under par Thursday and around 30 will for their round today. If you post a 70 (-1) today you move the wrong direction on the leaderboard. ---
**Author:** ![Xema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2011, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-open-golf-thread-and-is-anyone-going/584975/39 "2011-06-19T23:48:35Z")
Even on an easy US Open course, four sub-70 rounds adding up to 268 is impressive. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2011, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-open-golf-thread-and-is-anyone-going/584975/40 "2011-06-20T00:28:51Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > They made the conscious decision to cut down on the height of the rough, and then to compound that it’s been a bit wet and rather windless, both of which make it easier to execute shots. But yeah the rough will probably be back to 4-6 inches for next year (Olympic Club). I’ll be there. BTW, I certainly didn’t mean to imply that this was the easiest US Open ever, but it did play easier than what is expected out of this tournament. Good for Rory. And let’s not forget Jason Day. 2nd place at the Masters and the US Open. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-open-golf-thread-and-is-anyone-going/584975.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-open-golf-thread-and-is-anyone-going/584975.md?page=3)