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Starts Thursday at Carnoustie.
Golf Channel coverage:
Thursday and Friday
1:30 A.M. our time to 4:00 P.M....almost 15 hours!
From listening a bit:
Carnoustie normally the toughest of the rota courses.
Baked out fairways...little rain this summer...somebody said the stimp reading on the fairway might be faster
than on the green. Crazy distances....some guy on a par 4 of about 350 yards hit a 7 iron....from the tee....and he was not laying up...his intent was to bounce it on the green! On the long par 4 18th...the disaster hole for Van deVelde in 1999...Dustin Johnson hit a driver into the 'bern' [brook] next to the green....maybe around 460yds.
Wispy rough....but some of the rollouts will find the pot bunkers.
A little rain possible but not enough to soften the course....modest winds each day.
The experts say that the scores will be lower than expected if the weather forecast is right.
It's always fascinating to see how the players adapt to hitting ground balls to the pins as opposed to most of the courses in the U.S.
Starts Thursday at Carnoustie.
Golf Channel coverage:
Thursday and Friday
1:30 A.M. our time to 4:00 P.M....almost 15 hours!
From listening a bit:
Carnoustie normally the toughest of the rota courses.
Baked out fairways...little rain this summer...somebody said the stimp reading on the fairway might be faster
than on the green. Crazy distances....some guy on a par 4 of about 350 yards hit a 7 iron....from the tee....and he was not laying up...his intent was to bounce it on the green! On the long par 4 18th...the disaster hole for Van deVelde in 1999...Dustin Johnson hit a driver into the 'bern' [brook] next to the green....maybe around 460yds.
Wispy rough....but some of the rollouts will find the pot bunkers.
A little rain possible but not enough to soften the course....modest winds each day.
The experts say that the scores will be lower than expected if the weather forecast is right.
It's always fascinating to see how the players adapt to hitting ground balls to the pins as opposed to most of the courses in the U.S.
