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Lots of golfers had their reasonable proportion of dissatisfaction in this last weekend’s US Open at Oakmont Country Club in Pennsylvania.
Shane Lowry proclaimed outward, “F — this place” after missing a putt, and on Sunday, despite JJ Spaun’s late charges of going home his first major, only three people finished under pari in the final round.
One of these three players was Xander SchaUffele, whose +6 overall was tied to 12. In the tournament. The conditions were brutal from the jump, but the two-time great champion thought the course was “very fair.”
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Xander SchaUffele plays a shot on the first fairway during the third round of the US Open Golf Tournament. (Charles Leclaire-Preferred Pictures)
“Everyone had to play the same course,” SchaUffele told Pakinomist Digital in a recent conversation.
Schauffele admitted that there were “weird breaks” that took place over the weekend when golfers shot the line with danger. However, “you don’t have to hit it in the piles or the hard ones – you can just hit it in fairways.”
“I thought the course was fair. I thought it was more playable because it was raining a little, and fairways and greens were more forgiving,” he added. “You had to golf extremely well, which is what you had to do to win an American open. You saw jj take control of the rain delay, which is what you have to do to win and be a great master there.”
Schauffele will be one of several big Champs at TPC River Highlands in Cromwell, Connecticut, this weekend to Travelers Championship, where the last seven winning scores have been -22, -23, -19, -13, -19, -17 and -17, a polar opposite us open scores.
2024 PGA and Open Champion won the travelers in 2022, and while everyone will shoot lower, SchaUffele said that having both types of golf is a good balance.
Xander SchaUffele holds up Travelers Championship Trophy after winning the Travelers Championship Golf Tournament. (Mandatory Credit: Vincent Carchietta-usa Today Sports)
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“A mixture of both is nice. It’s healthy. I’ve never thrown away from the US Open Challenge, and I’ve never thrown myself away from -25 to win a tournament,” Schauffele said. “If you were to play Oakmont under US open conditions every week for 20 weeks, you would carry yourself out, and vice versa. If you had to play a course where 25-Under wins for 20 weeks, you would also carry yourself out. I think having a split and a little variation is nice to us.”
This year’s Travelers have exactly what SchaUffele wants as he aims to take fire in front of the open, FedEx Cup and Ryder Cup on Bethpage Black in what has been a “strange” season for him.
“They’ve definitely done some things to make the TPC River Highlands more difficult,” Schauffele said. “In the past, lower ru, fairways used to be wider, they changed a few holes to make it more difficult and less scoring friendly … You are rewarded for really good shots, but there is water on a lot of holes that are deeply rough on some short-sided pins, a guy next to the fact that you can shoot low but you can be on straight pair. well. “
Xander SchaUffele, Left, shakes his hands with his caddy, Austin Kaiser, after winning the Travelers Championship Golf Tournament. (Vincent Carchietta-usa Today Sports)
However, it will be a sharp difference from what went down in western Pennsylvania.
“It will be weird to be able to make seven or eight birdies in a round versus at Oakmont.”
