Do you know this face? Neither do I. It’s the face of Olin Browne, the leader after round 1 of the 2005 US Open. He’s tied with more well known Rocco Mediate at -3. At -2 you have Lee Westwood, Brandt Jobe (who’s been playing well lately), KJ Choi and ’96 champion Steve Jones. I honestly don’t think come Sunday any of these players will be in the hunt.
Notables: Tiger at Even par. Els, DiMarco, Furyk, Sergio and Freddy at +1.
Notables circling the drain: Duval at +6, DLIII at +7. Last place belongs to Paul Casey who shot a +15 85.
There hasn’t been anything really surprising. The rough is just right. The greens were perhaps a little softer than your typical US Open. The usual “flash in the pan” players are at the top of the leaderboard but will disappear.
Jay Flemma my golf blogging buddy is on location there. He’s getting a golf blogger’s perspective from the media tent and the course so go check it out.
Johnny Miller had a good quote when talking about Spencer Levin’s hot temper: “He makes Pat Perez look like he’s on Prozac.”
In the bad quote department Chris Bermin needs to stop with his terribly stupid “names” he gives to the players. This isn’t sportscenter dude. Those dumb names you make up like “Roger Chocolate Malt-be” and “Fred Funk Railroad” don’t really fly in golf. We don’t think you are as funny as you think you are. Why do we have these ESPN hacks doing golf anyway? Are they bringing in the “big guns” because it’s the US Open? Give me a break.
After much fanfare, the new TMAG (TaylorMade, Adidas) blog is up and running. This blog looks great. It is nice and clean, and keeps the “theme” of the whole TMAG site. The Carlsbad Confidential link now goes straight to the “people” subsection that I couldn’t find yesterday. The people subsection is one of 4 basic categories at http://www.tmaginsider.com/. The other 3 are: Home, Tour & Products. There is an “about” page and a “media” page as well.
OK, I was a doubter before and I did give them some hell, but for the first few hours it has been up it is looking good. (Much better than the old one). I’m sure as they have time to tweak, it will get even better.
The US OPEN starts tomorrow. The most recent poll regarding your preference for the US Open playing conditions is now closed.
The results…..drumroll please
Medium: Even par should win it. -> 68%
Very difficult: Over par score wins. -> 26%
Don’t care -> 5%
Easy: Give me a shootout! -> 0%
The overwhelming majority of 68% (myself included) prefers the winning score to be EVEN PAR. A few of you wanted to see the pros punshised by a difficult course while NONE of you wanted to see a Bob Hope-esque shootout.
I’m now starting the new poll which will run through the US Open and probably the week following:
The 2005 US Open playing conditions
1. Just right
2. Too hard
3. Too easy
4. Don’t care
What is up with this site?: http://golf.online-advice.info/
It seems all they do is repost all the golf blog entries and put a crapload of ads all over the place.
Oh, I almost forgot….IT’S US OPEN WEEK!
Much of the talk this week will be about the famous Donald Ross creation: Pinehurst #2 (pic below)
While I haven’t played Pinehurst #2, I have played another Donal Ross course in Pennsylvania called Aronomink. Players in the know call it “The Mink.” The Mink is an amazing course (pic below). Near the first tee there is a bust of Donald Ross with the quote “This is my masterpiece.”
The Mink has beautiful tree lined fairways that undulate greatly. The undulation and design of the course causes many tee and approach shots to be quite deceptive. You think you’re striping one down the middle of the fairway, only to find out the fairway was 20 yards right of your line.
When you get to the greens they are huge with massive undulation and tiers. Most of the greens have specific quadrants you must hit or it is 3-putt city, just like Augusta.
When I was just getting started with my golf sites I did a little review on The Mink. It is located at my sister site Web Country Club. CLICK HERE for that review. I was fairly green when I did that review so it’s not quite up to par with the reviews I do these days. (sorry for all the puns in that last sentence) I’ll port it over here some time under courses-reviews.
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