After all of the questions we had approximately Chambers Bay and its uncommon method to US Open golf, two rounds have proven us that it'll nonetheless provide us what we anticipate from a US Open.
There are the same old complaints about some thing of the path. In this situation, it's the fescue-poa veggies and the uncommon "changing pars" of holes 1 and 18.
After Round 2 the leading score is -5, which just happens to be the same score that led after Round 1. That's pretty typical US Open scoring, no matter where you play. ( For those of you who don't know, except for 2 of the previous 114 US Opens, a final score of -8 was enough to get you into a playoff if you didn't win outright. The 2 exceptions? Tiger Woods in 2000 won with -12 and Rory McIlroy in 2011 won with -16. )
Some of the favorites have slammed their trunks -- for me, Rickie Fowler is the maximum splendid because he became my preferred to win -- and the protecting US Open champ didn't make the reduce. That occurs extra frequently than you may suppose. It's hard to guard on a one of a kind, and every so often dramatically specific route each year.
Some expected contenders slightly made the cut however are nevertheless now not out of it -- Phil Mickelson, Rory McIlroy and Adam Scott, to call some. The leaders are only nine pictures beforehand of individuals who made it on the wide variety, and we have already visible a sixty five (-five), more than one 66s and a number of 67s. Guys like Phil and Company are completely capable of posting a couple of those scores this weekend and getting themselves proper again into the mixture.
Likewise, we have several surprising names in that mix like Branden Grace, Joost Luiten and Tony Finau, in conjunction with some of the same old suspects who often pop up -- Dustin Johnson and Jason Day, as an example -- and one most important winner, in this example Jordan Spieth.
And don't forget this picture from the ultimate Ryder Cup?
Jordan and his teammate Patrick Reed have both shot their great-ever US Open ratings to date and will be the very TV-friendly very last pairing in ultra-modern penultimate round.
So while it is all stated and completed, it appears that blatantly extraordinary Chambers Bay goes to host a reasonably regular US Open in any case. All it desires is a great battle down the stretch...
But it is the gamers' duty, is not it?
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