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Oakmont, PA. – Xander Schauffele wrapped nine holes from the most important us open exchange rate and smiled. This was on Monday, just a circle of practice in Oakmont. But the picture illustrates why Schauffel seems to be rarely suffering at a great benefit that the most difficult test in golf.
He finished from the top 10 only once in eight previous American open performances. His largest result is 75 in the third round in Brooklin 2022. years. He tied 14. that week.
“Maybe I’m just sick and enjoy the challenge,” Schauffel said with another smile. “Something about that is really hard. I think a good attitude goes a long way. It is obviously said than to do, hard to maintain and good attitude through whole. I think they are very fun.”
The attitude will be tested in the oakmont, a course with rough so that it looks like cabbage and greenery so fast that you can feel like putting in the bath. Stipmimeter was developed after the inventor of Gene Sarazen which strikes into the bunker in Oakmont.
Schauffele has not yet realized the winning part of it, at least not at the US open. Despite his top 10’s, he hasn’t seriously challenged in the final class.
This year represents a different test for 31-year-old California, who pierced last year in the greatest events by conquering PGA Championship and British open.
He still tries to find his slot after disappearing two months with a rib injury that significantly slowed the beginning of his season. It was a serious challenge – sitting at home, resting, working next to nothing.
“I felt like I was playing at a pretty high level. Then I hurt myself,” he said. “My expectations of what I knew I could do where I was different. And I accept it hard. I think it was the biggest call I’m coming back.”
So, it opens us in Oakmont – fun, he calls it – can be a good measure of where he is.
Most 156 players, and even a few alternatives, dated the course on a relatively dry day that should be at least until the weekend.
Justin Thomas was among those who came to Oakmont a few weeks ago to enter a serious study, knowing the exercise circles can be the biggest ground because they last so long. Everyone is trying to figure out what to do from the rough, where to miss, how to avoid mistakes.
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Dustin Johnson played nine holes, the first returned to the oakmont since he won his first big nine years ago. He played the last seven holes they don’t know if he will make him punish him for his golf ball that moves on his fifth green. It is a serious mental toughness.
There were several changes, including smaller trees.
“The course is as hard as I remember, if not harder,” Johnson said.
Usga likes to test every part of the game, and that includes the mental side of it. Jack Nickus, a four-time American champion, he said he listened to players who complain about the days that led to the open and figure, could exclude them.
“I hope a lot of players are psychosis,” Thomas said. .
Thomas mentioned and the need to get a good attitude. The definition is different for each player. It is committed to him over every shooting on each hole and accepts the outcome.
“I think I start another guess myself once or not trusting my instincts, let me know in trouble,” Thomas said. .
Country Club Oakmont chose his bunkers over his trees. The massive removal of the tree also has its fans and spent.
With Schauffele, it can be difficult to say when losing cool. And he is not a big believer that someone throws the club cost himself. Tiger Woods, who won the US three times, was among the best on the putting any rages behind him before settling through his next shot.
“I think I look pretty nice to the forehead when I play, but I can only be absolutely just to throw up,” Schauffel said. “I think a really good attitude is a kind of acceptance of what happened and allowing yourself to be quite zero to hit the next shot.”
It’s not just US Open Where Wherfele showed outstanding consistency. He dropped down the stretch in Prepeal hollow to make a cut, and his cut is on 65 tournaments entering the Oakmont. It is the longest string because the forest made 142 in a row in a row that ended in 2005. years.
Clearly has a game. And he has a right head for the US Open.
“Part of my place is that we all play the same course, and it will be difficult,” he said. “You may think something is dishonest, but it doesn’t really matter at the end of the day. Whoever can deal with it, the best to play well. It’s like a fun challenge opposite like you live in the nightmare.”
