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Is anyone watching the US Open?

Fox is covering golf for the first time that I am aware of. The coverage is OK but the announcers look and sound like the rookies they are are.

I do not like the course. It is very much like a British Open course and unlike anything I have ever played in the US. It has huge tricked up greens and a lot of traps with gray sand. Jordan Spieth and Dustin Johnson along with a few no names are atop the leader board. Today is moving day as they say. It should be interesting.

Today's coverage starts at 1:00 on FOX. The final pairing does not tee off until 4:50 our time.

I thought the same thing on the course. When I first saw it, I thought it was the British Open. OH. btw, yes I am watching it as much as possible. RTR!

I thought the golfers had stumbled into a large road construction project. But it is fun to watch the pros struggle like the rest of us.

I watched Tiger stink it up for two days. He shot an 80 and a 76 on a US open course. I shot an 85 today from the white tees (6700 yds) on my home course, a course the Nike Tour tore up from the blue tees a few years ago. I guess Tiger is still better than I am.

Jason Day, Dustin Johnson, Branden Grace and Jordan Spieth are atop the leaderboard at -4. Four players are at -1 and everyone else is over par.

I think the U.S Open is a copy of the British Open anymore. This course though is the closest to being like the British Open than any of the past courses used. I have played a couple of links courses and they are much different and a lot harder than the regular courses. I always thought the owners were too cheap to mow the grass and etc. but I now realize it was all by design.

I do not remember any tournament, especially a major, where the announces are talking about some greens have more dirt than grass. It is hard watching on TV to determine the shape of the green.

I would be very unhappy if I paid to play a resort course and it was in the condition of this course. 

First chance I've had to watch much of it. Looks like they are playing 'Goofy Golf' on the greens.

I've seen balls rolling all over the place and I never seen that before. Greens are usually more dead than these. RTR!

Dustin Johnson 3 putts from 12 feet on the 18th to give the victory to Jordan Spieth. I'm glad Spieth won, but I hate to see anyone finish like Johnson did.

Spieth has won the first 2 majors of the year. Kudos to that young man!

Fox needs to stick to baseball and football. Their golf team is dreadful.

This young man is playing like Tiger use to. RTR!

For my 2-cents.... I worked in TV for 30+ years including a long stint at ABC during the heyday of Roone Arledge at ABC Sports.  IMHO, Fox's coverage was just bad TV.  The announcers/commentators added nothing. NO-THING.  They didn't explain shots or difficulties in a way that helped viewers grasp the immense challenges of this course. At times I wondered if they really understood golf.  And the production was seriously lacking.  Then needed lots more cameras to cover a course a complex as this one.  On many shots between camera angles that left you wondering where the ball was going and commentators that didn't add any useful info, viewers were lost.

The best part was the 'tracker' on the tee shots as it showed length & direction of shots.

Just all around bad TV.  The USGA should be furious and very worried about Fox's long term contract.

USGA should be severely criticized for not watering the greens so that there was a real putting surface.  OK...make the course as hard as you want, but greens gotta be reasonable puttable.  These were too far outside the boundaries of reasonable.

The ending was exciting and sad as 2 and Ricky have said.  Spieth is an emerging dominant player.  Surprising how quickly he has shoved Rory off-stage.  He has a knack for making big shots when he has to -- like Tiger used to do.  But you gotta hurt for DJ.  So close (again)....yet so far.

A poster at WA said it looked like they were playing at Chernobyl Country Club.  :lol2:

Greg Norman was OK, not great. The others need a lot of practice. Terrible camera work. The shot tracker was good once I, the viewer, figured out the driving targets. The announcers never helped by saying the preferred line at just to the left of the TV tower. I biggest complaint is the camera's could not follow the balls. They had trouble showing a ball hitting and rolling in the fairway until it was about to stop.

Happy for Spieth. Tough break for Johnson. It happens. Spieth did the same thing on 17.

Do you play PM, pmull?  I went up and played The Bear Trace at Tims Ford St park in Tennessee Saturday...wooooo...that was a reality check.  (Course was design by Jack Nicklaus)

The Golden Bear LOVES sand.

Yes I play. Point Mallard most of the time because it is close but I get over to Huntsville occasionally. I would like to meet you and play sometime. PM me if you are interested.

You can say that again!  It felt like there were 75 bunkers and sand traps on that course. 

We were letting a smaller group (and much better players) play through at one point, and we were just sitting in our carts beside a green.  We noticed a small deer over about 25 yards away eating grass.  A couple minutes later she walked right past some guys teeing off...i mean within 20 feet of them.  They had to hold their shot and let her walk across the tee box. 

We do the same thing with the alligators in Myrtle Beach.  :lol2:

I wish I had gotten the hang of golf it looks like a great game to play. I do like to watch the Pros though with some of the shots they make. One thing I have wondered though? Are these guys today as the Jack, Arnie and Tom W. and the cigar smoker? RTR!