The main ingredient after the best US open putter

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In Pinehurst No.2 last summer, Sam Burns Recorded his first career Top 10. This week at Oakmont, he is enjoying similar success.

Playing in the early wave in the second round, Burns posted the lower round of the championship while he scored six birds along the way to a 65-year-old. The round pushed the 28-year-old up to the manager’s table and the first five as the battlefields of the afternoon to make the cut.

“For this golf course, you really have to release it,” Burns said. “It is very difficult to try to run here. You will hit some in the harsh, you will hit some in a few bad points, you can also do it with authority.”

Burns is definitely shaking well this week, but it is his flat weapon that is his last weapon. The winner five times runs PGA Tour this season in SG: setting, and that sweet blow is well translated into Oakmont while it ranks within 30 best in the field in the week’s placement.

So what is it that makes the burns such a brilliant layer? After his second round, we received a little mirror.

Burns’s main ingredient for large placement

If you see burns in the greens, you will notice that it is not too analytical in its approach. While some players are extremely regulated when it comes to setting (think Bryson Dechambeau), Burns is much more oriented.

“He plays Golf, I think, very freely, and he has truly natural good instincts when it comes to setting him up, and many of them are just very reactionary,” he said Scottie SchefflerOne of Burns’s best friends in the tournament. “He has good bases, good instincts and he puts many reactionaries. That’s really everything he has for her, it’s as simple as her.”

It can be seductive to become very rigid when you have a buckle in your hands, but when you start analyzing, bad things tend to happen. With Burns’s approach, everything is based on the confidence of his technique and the use of feeling to get the ball into the hole.

“I try to keep it very simple,” Burns said. “I think if you look at the setting, the ball is rolling on the ground. There is a lot of imperfection in the bar. There are many different lines that the ball can enter, depending on speed, so if you try to be very perfect with its placement it can lead you crazy, so I just try to read it really, put a good roll on it, focus on it.”

If you are someone who fights in the greens, it can serve you well to borrow a page from the Burns book. Call in your technique in green practice, but once you have reached the course, do not be too rigid in your approach. Be athletic and reactionary in the country.

It seems to have worked well so far for Burns in the US Open diabolic greens. The chances are, they will work for you too.