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How the pros play Congressional

• zagraniczniak 1,984 Posts

  Sun, Jun 12 2011 2:49 AM

  The Washington Post has an interesting interactive graphic showing how numerous professionals have played each of the holes at Congressional in recent tournaments there:

  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/sports/usopen/2011/how-congressional-has-played/

• thumbwrench 40 Posts

  Sun, Jun 12 2011 6:10 AM

  Pretty good information. Who do you think might win it? I've got to pull for Mickleson although I don't think the course works in his favor with the extremely tight fairways. The other tab on the linked page shows you how they've tightened up the course for the Open.

   

  Tony

• piztaker 5,743 Posts

  Sun, Jun 12 2011 6:42 AM

  It'll be a Brit of course. Mark my words. 

• andyson 6,415 Posts

  Sun, Jun 12 2011 7:15 AM

  Great info Zags!  Thanks for the post!

  I found it very interesting how often the pros hit 145 to 175 yards out of the fairway bunkers yet the best I can do with the always 30-40 lies at Congressional (or RSG and Oak) is 70 to 100 yds at best.  Appears they don't always get 30-40% lies like we do.

  Can WGT sometimes allow a 20-25% lie in the Congressional, RSG and Oakmont bunkers please?

• StrangeMagic 1,304 Posts

  Sun, Jun 12 2011 9:06 AM

  andyson:

  Can WGT sometimes allow a 20-25% lie in the Congressional, RSG and Oakmont bunkers please?

  Good point andy....

  a good example is a "hard sand" lie, like those found at Kiawah....

  those lies are almost like hitting off fairway, very little yardage loss..

  SM

• zagraniczniak 1,984 Posts

  Sun, Jun 12 2011 12:46 PM

  piztaker:

  It'll be a Brit of course. Mark my words. 

  Piz,

  Marked. A sleeve of virtual balls of your choice says it will be a Yank. (You can have the whole UK, including Northern Ireland, which is pretty generous these days golfwise, plus any Channel Islands as a freebie.) A third country is a push. Are you on?

  Zag

• thebigeasy707 5,885 Posts

  Sun, Jun 12 2011 8:50 PM

  zagraniczniak:

  piztaker:

  It'll be a Brit of course. Mark my words. 

  Piz,

  Marked. A sleeve of virtual balls of your choice says it will be a Yank. (You can have the whole UK, including Northern Ireland, which is pretty generous these days golfwise, plus any Channel Islands as a freebie.) A third country is a push. Are you on?

  Zag

  The course has been set up nicely for Rory McIlroy IMHO.

  TBE

   

• YankeeJim 25,827 Posts

  Mon, Jun 13 2011 4:50 AM

  andyson:

  Can WGT sometimes allow a 20-25% lie in the Congressional, RSG and Oakmont bunkers please?

  They do. There's places where it's 10-15% on Congressional.

• andyson 6,415 Posts

  Mon, Jun 13 2011 8:54 AM

  YankeeJim:

  They do. There's places where it's 10-15% on Congressional.

  I can't recall one 10-15%.  Where are they Jim?

• devonnnnn 1,085 Posts

  Tue, Jun 14 2011 3:34 AM

  Every time i hit it in a bunker on congres ik got a terrible lie. would like to see some improvement with the bunkers