00:00Let's head next to the third major of the 2026 season, June 18th through 21st, the U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club in Southampton, New York.
00:12So this is an interesting one when you look at a lot of the other classic Northeastern golf courses.
00:19So William Flynn's considered the principal architect after a 1931 redesign, but this was actually an original C.B. McDonald and Seth Rayner layout, which, you know, C.B. McDonald did, you know, National, which is right across the street.
00:34I mean, you could walk between Shinnecock and National up there. National Golfings of America, I should say the full name there.
00:40Here's a fun little tidbit on that. By 1930, Shinnecock faced a highway extension, which later became Route 27 that would have bisected its course.
00:48The club acquired new land to the north and commissioned William Flynn to design a completely new 18-hole routing, which opened in 1931.
00:56He preserved a few ideas from the prior 1901 C.B. McDonald and Seth Rayner layout, but largely created a new routing that took full advantage of the rolling sandy terrain.
01:06Its most recent renovation was in 2013 by Bill Core and Ben Crenshaw.
01:10It is a par 70 in the 2018 U.S. Open. It played 7,440 yards and the course record, again, as we've already mentioned, 63 held by Tommy Fleetwood and Adam Scott.
01:22U.S. Open at Shinne. I mean, this is pretty classic in terms of what you're going to get from a U.S. Open test.
01:28It's going to be tough. The fescue is going to be up.
01:30But who you got to win this major, Smiley?
01:34Well, the three guys that I have written down.
01:37I have Scotty Scheffler, four top sevens in the U.S. Opens.
01:41I have Rory basically counting down from nine all the way to second over the last six or seven years.
01:48And you like that?
01:51That's good. That's my YouTube audience.
01:53So you're taking Rory at Shinnecock.
01:54All right. So you got Scotty Scheffler already open.
01:58I like it. I think it's this is going to be a very interesting one because we'll kind of get into it maybe in a separate discussion about Scotty's chances to complete the career grand slam, why it could or couldn't happen.
02:13I think his record in that major sometimes unfairly gets, you know, overblown or undersold, just like he's not a good U.S. Open player.
02:21And then you go look at his results like, wait, he's just it's not he's not a good U.S. Open player.
02:25It's just that he's won everything else.
02:26And he's been amazing in all these.
02:27And maybe he hasn't found that success at the level he normally does in this major.
02:32I think that this is my pick here.
02:38It's sort of a gut feel play.
02:40It is a I have a guy who everyone's waiting to kind of break out in a major winning sense.
02:48He's already he's already a star on tour.
02:51He's everyone loves this guy's potential, but we're waiting for like a real elite sort of coming out party and winning some some some serious hardware.
03:01And his his U.S.
03:03Open record is short and it's not great.
03:05Missed the cut at Oakmont and finished tied for 12th of Piner.
03:09It's actually he was kind of in the mix of Piner and then made a big number on.
03:12Oh, I forget the whole but just kind of took himself out of contention.
03:16But I think Ludwig Oberg, I just feel like for some reason he just turns on cyborg mode this week, just hits a bunch of fairways, just really kind of lasers in and excels in the U.S.
03:33Open test.
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03:39He's just due to win a major.
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