After Friday’s exhaustion waits for a chaotic weekend

Oakmont, without. – There are some people, those who lack brain cells, who float down the turnpine pens and make their horns when traveling through the highway they divide Oakmont country club.

Thousands of fans have made their way beyond the eastern bridge this week, a walk needed to unlock the other side of the course, and since the crossing is visible from the turns below, many drivers, entertained in their complete disrespect for decoration on a large golf tour, lie in the horns.

Few know that it does nothing. Please. This golf course is quite difficult.

Get the highest golf player in the world, for example. At 4:15 pm on Friday, well after he signed for one over 71, Scottie Scheffler was in the range. And it had been, for more than an hour.

Surrounded by shaky coach Randy Smith, Caddy Ted Scott and agent Blake Smith, Scheffler hit the irrons, Woods, his driver. He used stretch sticks and then not. He used Trackman for a while and then stopped. He had some one -hand conclusions, his body language was weak, and he made gestures as a man seeking answers. At one point, his lid sat crooked and barely above his head, while he had an animated conversation with Randy Smith, his long coach of shaking.

Scheffler, the best player on the planet, was opened properly.

He was not alone.

“Everyone looks like they’re exhausted when they enter the course,” Denny McCarthy said. “Is a punch in the face.”

How about ion rahm? He played excellently, but could not make a blow to these diabolic greens.

“I’m very upset and very crazy now to think about any perspective,” he said. “Very frustrated.”

Rory Mcilroy tomahawked a 20 yard iron down the road. A couple of holes later he destroyed a tee marker. Shane Lowry cursed the course. Thirteen players shot in the 80’s and only three players are under the same time. (Sam BurnsYour 36 holes, somehow shot 65, two strokes better than anyone.)

And you know what? This tour will become wetter, more tense, more chaotic and perhaps even more difficult.

Hot and humid honey and rounds have taken 5.5 hours. And that is not even considering the mental aspect of an open US. Victor Hovland, who had one of the lower rounds of the day (68), said the thought that goes to every blow is exhausting. Rough is brutal. The greens are fast and steep like some other courses these people play. The bunker’s lips are high and sometimes the best you can do is just escape.

This tour, this golf course – and this game – can do things to a man.

The consensus seems to be that Oakmont has been difficult but fair. Hovland said the rough is stable throughout the property, which is rare for most courses. He even added that he usually despises the greens that are steep forward, like many of the Oakmont are, but it works somehow.

“There are only many strategies,” he said. “You have to be super accurate in your distance control.”