Golf: Paul Gow, host Warren Smith and 2006 champion Geoff Ogilvy go through the treacherous course that is Pinehurst.
It’s almost always hosted at notoriously tricky courses – like at Winged Foot, where Australian Geoff Ogilvy won in 2006 with a score of five-over par.But at the same time, Pinehurst No. 2 – the second of ten courses at Pinehurst Resort in North Carolina – is a unique challenge.Start Your Free Trial Today >The Pinehurst Resort opened in 1895, with a rudimentary nine-hole golf course opened three years later and added to in 1899.
What makes it so difficult is the variation in hitting conditions from the rough. No two shots ever feel the same. It’s hazardous and unpredictable. There’s a famous saying of Pinehurst that goes something like this: they don’t track Greens in Regulation, they track GreensOgilvy added: “But the real challenge at Pinehurst No. 2 is the greens are all upside-down saucers. They repel the ball on all four sides. Almost all 18 greens, if you’re sort of towards the edge of the green, the ball is gonna roll off the green.
2001 and 2004 US Open winner Retief Goosen had a three-shot lead entering the final round, only to go 11 over . The two players tied for second entering the final round equally capitulated: Jason Gore hit a 13-over 84, and Olin Browne hit an 80.The 1999 and 2005 editions of the tournament came before a major redevelopment of the course in 2011.
This is not the pristine manicured world of Augusta National, host of the Masters – Pinehurst is as scruffy and rough around the edges as it is prestigious. USGA Chief Championships Officer John Bodenhamer said last month: “We want to test every part of their game. We want them to hit it high, low, left to right, right to left.
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