In the latest episode of the SIST and Hear from Oakmont, old Golf writers Sean Zak and Dylan Dethier destroyed what this year’s test had to do.
Zak described Vibe as the players came out of the course after the first round: “Many clouding, a lot of sweaty browsing, many, like the hell I just the third Bogey 18?”
“Hard hard to remove emotion from their reactions and understand, okay, what do these people really think about the Golf Course?” Added dethier. “Because they are accustomed to 68 to be a good result. Suddenly today, 72, two above the par is a good result.”
Whenever the main players fight, the theme of justice always seems to come out. Here are Oakmont, Zak did not think the players were ready to make that claim, except in the case of no. 12, which Scottie Scheffler quoted as a road almost impossible to hit.
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“I would like to see the percentage of boys actually able to keep it in that in the afternoon, just because it’s so strong and there are so many steps on the road,” Scheffler said on Thursday. “So there are few things like that, it makes it so challenging. I mean, you can hit a great blow to that hole out and no matter what, it will surely end there in the first or rough cut.”
Other players admitted that in open US, sometimes you have to be satisfied with a higher result than usual.
“I’m extremely happy,” Ion Rahm He said about his opening round of 69. “I mean, I played an extraordinary golf to shoot 1 under, which we don’t usually say, right?”
After all, Zak said he loved the challenge the Oakmont is posing.
“This is a proper configuration. This rough is properly a test,” he said.
Scheffler said his approach to get Oakmont is simple.
“There is no ton of strategy,” he said. “Judas right, you climb there in the box of tee and be like, what club can I get on this free road? And then you try to hit that club on this good road, and if you don’t, it’s like, okay, how will I get out of this rough and turn the ball back into the fairway so I can have a stroke?”
Will it get stronger, faster and more crazy while the week continues? Dothier is not against.
“I liked what Xander said. He said, I’m a sicko like everyone else. I just want it to continue to get harder,” Dothier said. “I’m with. So let’s have a weekend.”
For more from Dothier and ZAK – as well as the additional player comments on Oakmont – check out the full episode of Sir and heard below.
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