Welcome into US Open week…or better known as the week that USGA takes a historic golf course and discovers new and different ways to ruin it. The only good thing that this week is that Mike Davis has relinquished his yearly butchering of the golf program and turned it on to John Bodenhamer who’s run USGA amateur occasions because 2011. I need to think John can’t possibly screw up the course set-up anywhere near what Mike Davis has done the last couple of years. Then again, the bar isn’t set very high unfortunately.
The best thing of this week however is that we return to the West Coast meaning we receive primetime golf. I can not begin to tell you this excites me. Sunday breakfast at the Masters and Saturday night US Open golf at Pebble Beach two months apart is roughly as good as it gets in my view.
So let’s just assume John isn’t a complete fool like Mike Davis and he leaves well enough. We get a US Open, as intended, on a historic course with tight fairways, long demanding rather than a clown’s mouth in website. Going off this assumption I believe this week we are left with a few of the leaderboards of this year. To put it differently, I think this week the cream rises to the surface. So with no real significant surprises how will the very best on earth shake this week? We break down the contenders from the field for your 2019 US Open.
(As always, odds are at this time this has been written and will probably change during the week)