The 121st Staging of The US Open begins in the early hours of tomorrow (Australian Time).
The US Open returns to Torrey Pines, San Diego California, for the first time since 2008. On that occasion Tiger triumphed on one leg, and no, not the middle one.
The course will be fully tricked up, fast greens and very penal rough, particularly greenside. I'd expect many of the players will "bail out" and opt to play out of the bunkers than take on the rough.
Been a bit of talk around the Koepka Vs De Chambeau slanging match which has continued over social media. Appartently big Brooks encouraging fans to heckle Bryson. Not sure that's quite in the mild mannered spirit of golf. Don't think that's Palmer/Nicklaus type behavior, but whatever. There was a bit of tension years ago between Tiger & Phil, but that has cooled now. So perhaps that's a case of a couple of young bulls marking their ground.
John Rahm enters the week as the $10.00 favorite, following his Corona holiday at the end of the 3rd round of the Memorial where he had a commanding 6 shot lead.
DeChambeau is the defending champ and is a $15 hope. The next line of betting see's DJ and Xander Schaufeelle together as $17 quotes.
Going to be an interesting tournament to see who can get it done, a roughie may be Garrick Higgo - the young South African looked the goods last week, and took the money.
I am on Xander this week. A San Diego native, who has been knocking the ball around at Torrey Pines since high school. Hoping some local knowledge see's him salute.