Pinehurst U.S. Open to Be ‘Easier’ With Wide Fairways, USGA Says
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This year’s U.S. Open at Pinehurst Resort’s No. 2 course will play a “little easier” than the last time the tournament was staged there nine years ago because fairways will be wider, said Mike Davis, executive director of the U.S. Golf Association.
With more than 40 acres of thick Bermuda grass removed from the edges of the 107-year-old Donald Ross-designed course during a $2.5 million renovation, fairways will play about 30 percent to 50 percent wider than in 2005 and 1999.