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• bubbsboy 6,879 Posts

  Sat, Dec 20 2014 2:03 PM

  5th at Merion back pin, no greenkeeper in the world would put that cup at the back there, bit of realism i thinks needed now and then.Total mockery of that hole im afraid

• WGTicon 12,511 Posts

  Sun, Dec 21 2014 11:52 AM

  bubbsboy:

  5th at Merion back pin, no greenkeeper in the world would put that cup at the back there, bit of realism i thinks needed now and then.Total mockery of that hole im afraid

  hi

  we get our pin locations from USGA, so if it's there, then it's likely to have been used before for US Open

  -wgticon

• bubbsboy 6,879 Posts

  Sun, Dec 21 2014 12:00 PM

  No problem Icon, thanks. Does seem a bugger though ;-)

• ApexPC 3,164 Posts

  Sun, Dec 21 2014 3:10 PM

  You can see in the Course Layout section that each day of the 2013 US Open on the Merion East Course, each hole had a different yardage indicating that the USGA used not only different hole placements on each hole each day, but they also use different tee placements on each hole each day. 

  The longest set up for #5 played 510 yards.

• bubbsboy 6,879 Posts

  Sun, Dec 21 2014 3:28 PM

  Good info Apex. Its just the pin placement is strange, i have birdied it (luckily i guess), and have been so happy to 1st putt as close as possible to assure a par. Miss it past pin and take it on then a big weeeeeeeeeeee is expected. Very unforgiven, but suppose thats the fun of it, i think lol

• ApexPC 3,164 Posts

  Tue, Dec 23 2014 11:02 AM

  US Open venues are purposely set up with little in the way of forgiveness, and we play all of WGT's US Open venues in US Open condition.