across Los Angeles, as part of Trump’s mass deportation campaign.
“This course is built to be like this,” Spieth said. “So they’re not doing a whole lot different to the golf course. You hit a good shot, you get rewarded for it here. And if you don’t, you’re in big trouble. It’s pure golf, no funny business about it.”Spieth was keeping score on this day — he gave himself an 18-inch birdie putt after a 50-yard chip on the short par-4 17th and was 2 under for the day. He also did plenty of chipping and putting. On one hole, he had his caddie throw him golf balls down into the bunker. The grass was so thick it gobbled up the balls before they reached to the sand.
The rough was as advertised, mainly the sheer density of it, and it was made even more difficult considering how wet it was.Spieth wasn’t worried so much about the grass off the fairway — everyone has to deal with that at some point during the U.S. Open. It was what followed.“It magnifies once you make a mistake if you don’t play the right shot,” he said. “It’s not like making a mistake is the end of the world. It might cost you half a shot. You just have to take what it gives you.”
More than 60 players in the U.S. Open field were at the Memorial two weeks ago, which also featured rough that was longer and thicker than normal. Growing grass has not been an issue in the Ohio Valley this year. The difference is the speed of Oakmont’s greens — reputed to be the fastest in the land — and not many forced carries.“This test here, because they give you more runways to try to run it up to the green, it entices you to think you can do more than you should,” Spieth said. “That will be the biggest challenge this week — swallowing pride. Bogeys don’t hurt you. Anything more will.”
The forecast was for more scattered showers on Monday, and then a break from the rain until the weekend.
Oakmont is hosting the U.S. Open for a record 10th time, and its reputation is strong enough that even the best can expect a strong test. First impressions, of course, can be misleading.The senator is going through what authorities have described as “critical hours” after undergoing surgery at a private clinic in Bogotá.
“He survived the procedure; these are critical moments and hours for his survival,” said Bogotá Mayor Carlos Galán early Sunday after receiving information from the medical staff at the Fundación Santa Fe clinic.“His condition is extremely serious and the prognosis is reserved,” the clinic added hours later in a new medical report.
Police arrested a 15-year-old boy for the shooting who they considered the perpetrator. Authorities have not disclosed a motive.Colombia’s Ombudsman’s Office condemned the attack, saying the country “cannot allow a return to dark times when violence sought to silence ideas, candidacies or political leadership.”