Tiger Woods has described the venue for this month’s US Open as “very challenging” after seeing for himself why a top US Golf Association (USGA) official said extensive homework was required at Chambers Bay.
Woods, who won the last of his 14 major titles in the 2008 US Open at Torrey Pines, scouted the Washington State site on Monday and Tuesday before heading to Muirfield Village Golf Club for this week’s Memorial Tournament.
“When Mike [Davis] says something like that, you have got to pay attention to it, because he’s an extremely bright man and we got out there and it was like, ‘Oh, my God, there’s so many different options here’,” Woods said on Wednesday.
When Mike [Davis] says something like that, you have got to pay attention to it
“It’s very challenging in the sense that Mike has so many options that he can present us as challenges off the tees or into the greens. There are so many different numbers that you have to know off the tees and how that’s going to play.”
Woods’ comments should serve as another warning to players who have yet to visit the venue for the June 18-21 Open after USGA executive director Mike Davis said that anyone who gets in only a couple of practice rounds will have no chance of winning.
“The idea of coming in and playing two practice rounds and having your caddie just walk it and using your yardage book, that person is done,” Davis said in April. “[He] will not win the US Open.”
