2021 US Open Thread

[Herman Cain]

The US Open this year is at Torrey Pines . Phil Mickelson has won there 3 times on the regular tour. He is putting in some hard work this year to try and capture that elusive US Open Championship.

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/mickelson-at-home-and-running-out-of-time-for-us-open-title

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

The US Open this year is at Torrey Pines . Phil Mickelson has won there 3 times on the regular tour. He is putting in some hard work this year to try and capture that elusive US Open Championship.

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/mickelson-at-home-and-running-out-of-time-for-us-open-title

The Travelers Championship has a great field this year.  Week after the US Open. 
Phil, Kopeka, DeChambeaux

[Herman Cain]

https://www.pgatour.com/expert-picks/2021/06/15/fantasy-golf-advice-tips-picks-2021-us-open-torrey-pines.html

[Herman Cain]

https://nypost.com/2021/06/16/lee-westwood-and-caddie-helen-storey-got-married-before-us-open/

[Herman Cain]

Koepka opens with a -2 at Torrey. Phil goes +4 . Half the field still has to tee off. b

[MuggsyB]

Scores are looking pretty low early.  The best hole I ever played in my life was #2 at TP-North.   I think it's the hardest hole on the course and it was dead against the wind about 430 yards.   I'm not a particularly big hitter so I had no chance of getting to the green in two on this Par 4.  I'm not sure I could with no wind.   I hit a solid low draw, and I was still like  240 yrds from the hole.  I literally cannot hit a 3 Wood from the deck so I launched my 4 hybrid on the 2nd shot.  To this day I have not hit a better shot and still have no clue how I pulled it off.  I absolutely tattooed the ball, another low draw, that got to about 30 yrds from the hole.   Then I played a bump and run that was a freaking thing of beauty.  It checked before rolling  with a slight left to right break and fell into the cup as if I was putting front 6 feet. I wound up with an 86 but for those three shots somebody up there liked me!

[Herman Cain]

Scores are looking pretty low early.  The best hole I ever played in my life was #2 at TP-North.   I think it's the hardest hole on the course and it was dead against the wind about 430 yards.   I'm not a particularly big hitter so I had no chance of getting to the green in two on this Par 4.  I'm not sure I could with no wind.   I hit a solid low draw, and I was still like  240 yrds from the hole.  I literally cannot hit a 3 Wood from the deck so I launched my 4 hybrid on the 2nd shot.  To this day I have not hit a better shot and still have no clue how I pulled it off.  I absolutely tattooed the ball, another low draw, that got to about 30 yrds from the hole.   Then I played a bump and run that was a freaking thing of beauty.  It checked before rolling  with a slight left to right break and fell into the cup as if I was putting front 6 feet. I wound up with an 86 but for those three shots somebody up there liked me!

Great round on a tough course

[Herman Cain]

https://www.cbssports.com/golf/news/2021-u-s-open-scores-two-time-champion-brooks-koepka-ensures-peers-know-the-major-still-runs-through-him/

[MuggsyB]

Great round on a tough course

Thx Herman.  I did pretty well...but had a few debacle holes.

[Herman Cain]

Par is 71 this week.

[MuggsyB]

It would be nice to see Rory put up a decent 1st round score.

[Herman Cain]

https://www.espn.com/golf/story/_/id/31655281/phil-mickelson-bad-day-rory-mcilroy-good-day-comes-next-us-open

[MuggsyB]

Richard Bland is -5???  Who??

[cheebs09]

Richard Bland is -5???  Who??

He doesn’t sound like a very exciting player.

[MuggsyB]

He doesn’t sound like a very exciting player.

Lol.  I'm guessing he's not the betting favorite.

[MU82]

He doesn’t sound like a very exciting player.

Well he's no Eagle-producer like Henley ... no beast like Wolff ... no superhero like StreelMan ...

Ya can't use his name for a comedy sketch like Wu's On First ...

And he's neither an ED-drug pitchman like Fleetwood ... nor a porn-movie name like Woodland.

So yes, quite Bland in comparison!

[Dr. Blackheart]

He doesn’t sound like a very exciting player.

Not a good porn name either.

[Herman Cain]

Phil Mickelson hovering around the cut line +3 after 9 holes

[MuggsyB]

Phil Mickelson hovering around the cut line +3 after 9 holes

Lefty is in serious trouble Herman.  Maybe you should give him a  quick pep talk before he plays 14-18?

[tower912]

The cut going to +4 may save him. 

[MuggsyB]

The cut going to +4 may save him.

Oh...I didn't realize that.

[tower912]

No guarantees.  But I think that is what it will take for him to play the weekend.

[MuggsyB]

Two big par putts for Phil on 15 and 16.

[MuggsyB]

Schauffele can really pop it out there.  I think he just hit a low  cut about 325?  How?

[Herman Cain]

Phil finishes at +2 makes the cut . Looks like final cut will be +4 which brought a lot of guys back in .