Shots to learn from the US Open Part One

Some players – and a handful of ex-pro commentators – have been scathing of the way ‘the amateurs of the (cheap golf clubs) USGA positioned some pins on ultra fast greens to make them almost inaccessible to the world’s best players’.

However, Tiger Woods and Lee Westwood declared the course fair if a little brutal at times(Mizuno MP-58 Irons).

This Donald Ross course was designed in the early part of the last century with greens resembling turtle shells – upturned saucers with flat sections receptive to only the perfect(Mizuno JPX A25 Driver) approach but with run off areas that demanded delicate chips and pitches to save par if a player mishit or miscalculated and approach.

With modern machinery – compared to past century hand mowers and horsedrawn gang mowers – cutting the grass more finely and with great accuracy, the tournament(Mizuno JPX A25 Fairway Wood) organisers have extended these run-off areas and false front to greens to embarrass the world’s best.

However they have responded with a wonderful array of short games skills from which we can all learn.