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    Torrey! Torrey! Torrey! US Open 2021

    The US Open starts tomorrow at a course I'm very familiar with. I'll be watching it mostly to see if I can spot all the people I know who are marshalls and so on (an acquaintance was honorary starter for one of the practice rounds a couple of days ago).

    As for the tournament, the stories going in are Phil Mickelson at a very familiar course trying to complete the career slam. I think it's exceedingly unlikely that he'd win two, back to back. And then there's a Brooks Koepke vs Bryson DeChambeau invented feud.

    I don't think this is Bryson's course. I don't think he's ever done well at the Farmers - he missed the cut in 2017 and 2018, and the rough is very rough and going to be even rougher for the open. You can lose your ball in 2 inch high grass at Torrey even when it's not prepared for the big tournaments. Hitting massive bombs that drift off the line is probably not a good strategy.

    Sadly, the other competitor for most offensive player on tour, Patrick Reed, does have a good record here.

    I feel like it might be a weekend for the old geezers who hit straightish. Adam Scott and Justin Rose, perhaps.

    #2
    It is only a matter of time before someone named Torrey Pines plays in the US Open.

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      #3
      Is Rahm going to be in the field after his Covid whoopsy? He'll be worth watching if he is.

      But like most fans, I expect I shall mostly be cheering on Lefty.

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        #4
        Yep. Rahm's playing. He proposed to his wife in the Torrey Pines nature reserve that's on the other side of the fence to the course so he has some love for the locale. He's also won there before. Not a bad call.

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          #5
          Might as well throw our bets up here before it starts. All £1 each-way (top 11 pays out). I tend to avoid the really short-odds candidates as there's little value each-way unless they happen to win, and this is golf so who knows.

          Schauffele 16/1: local lad, four out of four top tens in US Opens, must win his first major soon? Fancy him to contend either way.
          Spieth 18/1: my wife won't stop betting on him if he's in any sort of form. He is in some sort of form.
          Finau 22/1: great record in US Open setups, due some/any sort of win, I like the cut of his jib.
          Lowry 33/1: rounding into some sort of form, knows how to play in the wind, isn't guaranteed a spot on the Ryder Cup team yet.
          Zalatoris 33/1: unblemished major record in his short career, apparently fearless, has made me a lot of money in the last twelve months backing his ascent.
          Casey 40/1: seems undervalued given his form/experience. Very much a top 11 punt rather than an expectation of victory.
          Nienaber 200/1: hits it longer than anyone else, he could be this year's breakout story (last year was Zalatoris) if he can handle the long grass.

          Anyone else throwing loose change at this thing?

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            #6
            Matsuyama each way, and as ever, Kooch for the top ten at 150/1!

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              #7
              Not quite a bet, but a pool thing where you pick four players and the lowest combined placing wins. I’ve gone local: Mickelson, Schauffele, Hoffman, Morrikawa.

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                #8
                I've always wondered if the fact they always schedule the final round of the US Open to be Father's Day in June is deliberate, and then wonder if, in fact, Father's Day was invented and became a thing precisely because it was the last day of the US Open. As far as I know it (Father's Day, not the US Open) has no religious significance.

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                  #9
                  It is the former

                  The holiday has been the third Sunday in June since 1910, at a time when the golf tournament did not have a fixed date

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                    #10
                    Final round is today.

                    Henley, Hughes and Oosthuizen lead, with only Louis having been in anything like this position in a major before (he has five runner-up finishes across the four majors as well as his Open win).

                    Lurking two back are McIlroy and DeChambeau, with Rahm, Wolff and Scheffler one further adrift. DJ, Morikawa and Schauffele, all four off the lead, are close enough to play a part if they get on a run.

                    It's nicely open, and hard to pick a winner - speaking of which, here's how my bets are coming along...

                    The Good
                    Schauffele (T9), Spieth (T14) and Casey (T21) have a decent shout at making the top 11 and returning some funds - the latter two posting very good scores on Saturday having made the cut on the number.

                    The Bad
                    Lowry (T45) and Nienaber (71) also made the cut with nothing to spare, but were over par yesterday, significantly so in Nienaber's case - he was a 200-1 punt and whilst he can hit it long, his irons and putter weren't working yesterday and he shot Saturday's highest score, an 80.

                    The Ugly
                    Home before the weekend were Tony Finau and Will Zalatoris. Stupid game.

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                      #11
                      I went with Rahm and Scheffler (among five picks) so I'm still in the running. I'm kicking myself for not thinking of Oosthuizen, who was second at last month's USPGA.

                      I have no chance of staying up until the finish (which won't be until about 1-30 am BST).

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                        #12
                        The third is a lovely hole, isn't it? A downhill par 3 which begins to fall off to a cliff and then the ocean beyond. I once went to look for my ball after going through the green and a rattlesnake was looking back at me.

                        I love seeing people struggle on Number 13, because that’s always my nemesis hole and the commentators always describe it as a reachable par 5. But once someone gets out of position it can mess them up, and it’s good to see how someone like DeChambeau tries (and even better fails) to get out of the hollow in front of the green without going into one of the load of bunkers.

                        The obverse is number 14 which they all seem to find so easy, but for me I’m usually trying to hit from the right into the green and it’s surrounded on three sides by penalty area canyon and it’s so hard to stop the ball going off the putting surface and heading towards real trouble.

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                          #13
                          It’s getting very rammed up at the top of the leaderboard, and with lots of well known and good players. The coverage can’t work out who to focus on. 10 players within a couple of shots of the lead including Oosthuizen, McIlroy, DeChambeau, Koepke, Casey, Morrikawa…

                          The field has to spread out soon, but it’s hard to know where the run is going to come from.

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                            #14
                            A little stretch where everyone seems to be falling apart and dropping shots. Rahm looks a relatively good bet right now. He’s holding it together a bit better than Louis, Rory, Bryson, Brooks. Poor Mackenzie Hughes got a super unlucky break on eleven by getting stuck in a tree.

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                              #15
                              For those not watching, that was his ball stuck in the tree, not Hughes. Though it did look for a brief moment like he was considering getting up there.

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                                #16
                                I have lost balls in the trees there, but it’s always in the actual Torrey pines which have very dense branches. Never in a tree like that.

                                DeChambeau just played 13 like a drain and is basically out.

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                                  #17
                                  It's a bit cruel having a camera on Rahm in the clubhouse, enjoying (and trying not to be seen to be enjoying) Oosthuizen missing putts.

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                                    #18
                                    Those putts by Rahm on 17 and 18 are the stuff of legends

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                                      #19
                                      I’d love to see a play-off between these two, but if - as seems inevitable - Rahm wins he deserves it. He’s the only player who seems to have held it together on the back nine.

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                                        #20
                                        He did deserve it, he stepped up when no-one else did. And he's getting to be a bit of a very spectacular last minute, long breaking putt specialist.

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                                          #21
                                          Originally posted by San Bernardhinault View Post
                                          It’s getting very rammed up at the top of the leaderboard
                                          Was that a deliberate pun?

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                                            #22
                                            Rahm becomes world number one with that win. The rankings are looking ominous for Europe Ryder Cup wise though. Rahm is number one, McIlroy number ten, and every position in between is a sea of stars and stripes.

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                                              #23
                                              https://twitter.com/VC606/status/1406886583140245507

                                              The wonderful world of OWGR.

                                              Happy for Rahm, vaccination preparedness notwithstanding; Casey and Schauffele paid out each-way, so it was an OK weekend for my low-level golf wagers.

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