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Why Shinnecock may not offer the US Open test it has in the past
Key takeaways
- The USGA took the unusual step of asking for the seventh green to be watered mid-round during the 2004 US Open at Shinnecock Hills
- This is probably the closest the event comes to being played on a links course.
- It is not quite on the shoreline, but is treeless, windswept and exposed, and the links-like turf runs fast and firm.
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The USGA took the unusual step of asking for the seventh green to be watered mid-round during the 2004 US Open at Shinnecock Hills
Golf correspondent Published46 minutes ago Lessons have been learned, insist organisers of the US Open after the past two visits to Shinnecock Hills descended into controversy over brutal and ultimately substandard set ups of the Long Island layout.
US Opens are invariably about the golf course and the way it is laid out to test the world's best players, but whenever America's national championship is staged at Shinnecock there seems an extra dimension to the extremity of the examination.
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