re: Kevin Na Mad About the Rough at Upcoming U.S. Open

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Chambers Bay was different. They burnt that course out. Players had a right to bitch there.

Erin Hills has always had that fescue. It's nothing new. USGA didn't add it or make it any thicker.

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I will agree with you here, and I've played both courses under normal conditions.

Chambers Bay, even during the middle of the summer, is usually a wet, soft, and long course that put a premium on ball-striking. I played it before the Open there, and it was hard not because of the goofy conditions, but because it was long as hell, kind of windy, and had a bit of a funky lay-out. The USGA went out of its way to make that tournament more dependent on lucky breaks than on shot-making.

As the crow flies, Erin Hills is about 100 miles from Chicago, and they have had the same weather we have had recently. Unless the USGA was taking blow-dryers and UV rays to the course for the last month, it is just going to be a long, wet course for virtually everyone. I do think it will be more fair, but length and accuracy off the tee are going to be even more important than usual. I think it will play much more fair than that goofy golf you saw at Chambers Bay.