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Message: [QUOTE="LIuconn, post: 2235741, member: 134"] Interesting setup this week. I'm all for new courses in different parts of the country to host the US Open, but I wont lose sleep if Erin Hills isn't chosen again. Course too expansive: crowds 5-deep lining tees, fairways and greens make it feel like a major - low-looking turnout made it feel non-major. No roars being heard on TV from other areas, players stepping off shots because of it and all that. Risk/reward holes didn't have enough risk. Par 5s and short 4s didn't have the hazards or green complexes to make the players think twice picking a strategy or club. Par 5s had easy bailouts to make birdie from. No teeth. Sometimes at US Opens pars feel like birdies and that's how it should be. Love the wide fairways but 60 yards wide is excessive for a US Open. Plenty of great 2nd shot courses (like Augusta, Riv, etc) Yield birdies but a player MUST play from the correct spot of the fairway to have a chance since the greens and bunkers are so challenging. Guys were cashing in birds from all over the park this week. Any course with holes not framed with trees and contrasting grass/sand colors won't present so well on TV. It helped Fox had pro tracer on every shot. Brooks is a deserving champ. The guy has all the firepower DJ has and is a few years younger. He should be around for a long time. Brian Harman is a killer and he'll compete for more majors. [/QUOTE]