Oakmont breaking golfer's souls: 'I'm too annoyed and too mad right now to think'
OAKMONT, Pa. — Oakmont is up to it's old trick of breaking golfer's minds, and a few of the world's best seem ready to snap at this incredibly difficult U.S. Open course.
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'Honestly, I'm too annoyed and too mad right now to think about any perspective. Very frustrated. Very few rounds of golf I played in my life where I think I hit good putts and they didn't sniff the hole, so it's frustrating,' said Jon Rahm after following Thursday's 69 with a 75 on Friday.
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'I didn't see anything go in beside a 7-footer on seven,' the Spaniard said of his bad day on the greens. 'That's it. That's a very hard thing to deal with to try to shoot a score out here.'
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Jason Day took matters into his own hands — actually into his foot — after a poor putting day on Thursday. The Aussie bounced back from an opening round 76 with a second round 67 and will play the weekend.
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'I bent my putter. Yeah, I just manually bent it myself. Stood on it,' he said when asked what changes he made after Round 1. 'That's kind of how I used to do it back in the day. It just hadn't been looking very good to me personally, kind of looks a little bit hooded, the grip's on a little bit closed too, so that's not a positive for me. But I bent it enough to make it look more open, which is good.'
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The result?
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'Putted a lot better today.'
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Denny McCarthy is one of the very best putters on the PGA Tour, but despite putting very well on Friday he still walked off with a 74. He said most players aren't complaining, they are simply resigned to their fate.
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'They're really slopey undulated greens, but there hasn't been a ton of talk. It's just kind of the common theme; everyone seems like they're exhausted when they come in off the course just because it's a punch in the face,' McCarthy said. 'Even if you've played okay and grind it out and shoot a couple under to a couple over, it's still just a grind. It just takes a lot out of you.'
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Sam Burns shot an almost unbelievable 65 on Friday and said sometimes trying to be perfect can be the enemy of golfers, especially on Oakmont's notorious greens.
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'I try to keep it very simple. I think if you look at putting, the ball is rolling on the ground. There's a lot of imperfections on grass,' he said. 'There's a lot of different lines the ball can go in, depending on the speed, so if you try to be too perfect with putting it can drive you crazy, so I just try to really read it, put a good roll on it, focus on the speed and hope for the best.'
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