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Author Topic: So why has Merion been out of the US Open rotation for so long?  (Read 1321 times)
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« on: June 16, 2013, 06:24:42 EDT »

I wasn't very familiar with it before this week- but man, what a great course.  Tough, but fair.  Just the way a US Open course should be.  I've always thought that you can judge a course by the quality of the players at the top of the leaderboard- and through 54 holes, the leaderboard speaks for itself (Tiger's absence notwithstanding).  Should be a great final round today. 

But why has the US Open been absent for 32 years?  Is it because it's too short by today's standards?
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« Reply #1 on: June 16, 2013, 06:32:15 EDT »

I wasn't very familiar with it before this week- but man, what a great course.  Tough, but fair.  Just the way a US Open course should be.  I've always thought that you can judge a course by the quality of the players at the top of the leaderboard- and through 54 holes, the leaderboard speaks for itself (Tiger's absence notwithstanding).  Should be a great final round today. 

But why has the US Open been absent for 32 years?  Is it because it's too short by today's standards?
Two reasons:
1) It is "too short" for modern golf equipment
2) it is "too small" of a property to host a major tourney. 

The second is probably the main reason,  it is a very small piece of land, which if you look at how often a player putting has to wait on the players on the next tee box to tee off you can see.
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