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Originally Posted by FireGilbert
How does a harder course help the best players rise to the top? It's golf, whoever plays best that weekend wins, no matter what the course. If the Open was played under more difficult conditions Keopka still wins, it's just with a -4 instead of a -16. For whatever reason the star players struggled this weekend, even under easy conditions, and they would have struggled even more on a tougher course.
If anything a harder US Open course hurts the better players and produces surprises as luck plays a much bigger role. Plenty of no names have won recently and plenty of stars have failed to win. Phil Mickelson for example has won the Masters, the major with the easiest conditions, three times yet has never won the US Open.
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Huh? the best players "usually" compete for major wins because the best players are just that...the best players. on tougher courses talent,nerves and experience should rise to the top.
In 2000 Pebble Beach was set up so tough some players were calling it almost un-fair but in the end four of the top 15 players in the world finished in the top 5.
And of course Tiger won by 12 strokes and was the only player to break par.