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Wednesday 23 May 2018

Lebron To The Rescue

In this Wednesday, Oct. 4,
2017 file photo, the sun sets on
the Shinnecock Hills Golf Club
in Southampton, N.Y. The 2018
U.S.
Associated Press
Column: US

Open has a

new way of

presenting

old courses

By DOUG FERGUSON
Associated Press
SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. (AP)
— If the U.S. Open was
suffering from an identity
crisis, then a return to Shin-
necock Hills should cure
that.
But only to a point.
Jack Nicklaus was the
strongest voice of concern
a year ago, and it was
easy to see why. The U.S.
Open went to two mod-
ern courses in three years,
Chambers Bay in 2015 and
Erin Hills in 2017. The land-
ing zones at Erin Hills were What A Knot
nearly wide enough on
some holes to fit three fair-
ways from a U.S. Open that
Nicklaus grew up playing. Cleveland Cavaliers’ LeBron James (23) reacts after a play
It wasn’t necessarily a bad against the Boston Celtics in the first half of Game 4 of the
test, just a different one. NBA basketball Eastern Conference finals, Monday, May 21,
And for those who spent 2018, in Cleveland.
the better part of four de-
cades playing them, it was Associated Press
puzzling. Page 22
“I think the USGA has got-
ten away from their identity
with what they’re doing,”
Nicklaus said, though he
conceded that Chambers
Bay was unique and he
had not been to Erin Hills or
seen the way courses were
set up.

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