U.S. Open's Harsh Conditions Challenge Players on Final Day

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00:00the course itself as it usually is with u.s open smiley that they're kind of the story first right

00:06what about the court and oakmont was tough i mean to have one guy finish under par for the entire

00:12week that's what they want they want something like that at a place like this i did think though

00:18smiley as much as we love this stuff and we love watching guys hack it up out of big rough and

00:24i like it was tough that they played um and they finished yesterday and the kind of conditions

00:31that they were playing in for the final round of a u.s open i thought it was a little too much i mean

00:36sam burns is hitting out of a pond uh on one all out i don't think it would have mattered if he got

00:41the drop or not i think that spawn still would have won but i thought the conditions were a little over

00:46the top smiley in the back nine and they should have waited till this morning they probably should

00:51have i think it was definitely a little past borderline and the only comparison that you can

00:57possibly make is okay let's say this was a pga tour event what what would the pga tour have done with

01:03uh the rule set that they have on site and would they have deemed the conditions of the golf course

01:07to be playable i think i think they probably would have waited a little longer to send the guys out

01:14to let the fairways try to uh just absorb a little bit of that rain that just came down for i mean came

01:19down in buckets for like 30 minutes and uh of course i of usga probably has a prerogative they

01:27want to finish on sunday night uh in prime time um and so so do we as a broadcaster it isn't it isn't

01:33our decision they they decide when when to go when not to go but of course i was happy to leave this

01:40morning that that's uh that was nice for me but uh i'm with you i'm with you i mean these guys uh

01:46mike they they train every single day uh to to have an opportunity to be you know in the mix on

01:52the back nine of a sunday and you hate to see you know just the quirkiness of really wet golf balls

01:58and having no control over how far the ball goes or left and right which i understand is part of the

02:06sport but when it gets to kind of a point where you know guys are literally hit like playing in

02:12conditions they never played in before that's where i think he got a little dicey for sure