Si Carlos Alcaraz continúa haciendo lo que ha hecho hasta ahora en la edición 2022 del U.S. Open, probablemente estemos viendo el ascenso del español hacia un título de Grand Slam. El miércoles en la noche, venció a Jannik Sinner en una victoria …
Si Carlos Alcaraz continúa haciendo lo que ha hecho hasta ahora en la edición 2022 del U.S. Open, probablemente estemos viendo el ascenso del español hacia un título de Grand Slam.
El miércoles en la noche, venció a Jannik Sinner en una victoria épica de cinco sets, y como parte de esa victoria, hizo el que probablemente se convertirá en el mejor tiro del torneo.
Mientras corría hacia su derecha, Sinner contestó un tiro del lado de su revés. El impulso que llevaba Alcaraz lo dejó en un punto en el que ya no podía pegarle a la pelota de forma normal, así que CONTESTÓ POR ATRÁS DE SU ESPALDA. Sinner contestó con una dejadita y Alcaraz conectó el tiró ganador.
Traducción: Carlos Alcaraz con el impresionante tiro por atrás de la espalda que convirtió en punto ganador.
Los 2 mejores jugadores jóvenes del tenis están dando todo un espectáculo.
Si Carlos Alcaraz continúa haciendo lo que ha hecho hasta ahora en la edición 2022 del U.S. Open, probablemente estemos viendo el ascenso del español hacia un título de Grand Slam. El miércoles en la noche, venció a Jannik Sinner en una victoria …
Si Carlos Alcaraz continúa haciendo lo que ha hecho hasta ahora en la edición 2022 del U.S. Open, probablemente estemos viendo el ascenso del español hacia un título de Grand Slam.
El miércoles en la noche, venció a Jannik Sinner en una victoria épica de cinco sets, y como parte de esa victoria, hizo el que probablemente se convertirá en el mejor tiro del torneo.
Mientras corría hacia su derecha, Sinner contestó un tiro del lado de su revés. El impulso que llevaba Alcaraz lo dejó en un punto en el que ya no podía pegarle a la pelota de forma normal, así que CONTESTÓ POR ATRÁS DE SU ESPALDA. Sinner contestó con una dejadita y Alcaraz conectó el tiró ganador.
Traducción: Carlos Alcaraz con el impresionante tiro por atrás de la espalda que convirtió en punto ganador.
Los 2 mejores jugadores jóvenes del tenis están dando todo un espectáculo.
The fourth and final Grand Slam tournament of the year will continue on Friday morning when the US Open returns to Flushing.
The 2022 US Open continues on Friday with the Third Round starting at 11 a.m ET from Flushing, Queens. We will see #23 Nick Kyrgios take on the American J.J. Wolf as well as the #1 Daniil Medvedev face Y. Wu in the Men’s Singles later today. On the Women’s side, we will have #12 Coco Gauff facing #20 Madison Keys as well as the late match between Ajla Tomljanović and Serena Williams.
This will be another great day of the tournament, here is everything you need to know to catch all the action.
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The fourth and final Grand Slam tournament of the year will take place on Monday afternoon with the US Open returning to Flushing.
The fourth and final Grand Slam tournament of the year will take place on Monday afternoon when the 2022 US Open comes back to town in Flushing, Queens.
Will this be Serena Williams’ last dance? That is a big question but definitely a reason to tune into the 2022 US Open. We will see Nick Krygios as well as Andy Murray as the tournament gets underway on Monday.
This should be a great start to the tournament, here is everything you need to know to catch all the action.
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“He rolled in a 50-footer or 60-footer or whatever it was on 13 and I even actually got quite carried away myself.”
“Conversations with Champions, presented by Sentry” is a weekly series from Golfweek in collaboration with The Caddie Network, where we take you behind the scenes for a chat with the winning caddie from the most recent PGA Tour event. This week: Billy Foster, caddie for Matt Fitzpatrick at the 2022 U.S. Open at The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts.
Billy Foster has been a caddie for 40 years, and has worked for the likes Seve Ballesteros, Thomas Bjorn, Darren Clarke and Lee Westwood. Along the way he collected 45 victories but never bagged the big one.
After many close calls over the years, Sunday’s final round started to look like another oh-so-close major for Foster. That is, until Fitzpatrick drained a long putt on the 13th hole that realigned the stars.
“He missed a four-footer on 10 for bogey and then he three-putted 11 from like 15-18 feet, roughly five-foot putts and he missed it. And I just thought, ‘Here we go again. It’s not going to happen again,'” Foster told John Rathouz from The Caddie Network.
“And then he rolled in a 50-footer or 60-footer or whatever it was on 13 and I even actually got quite carried away myself, which I never do. I never get carried away but I let out a loud roar and that got him right back in the tournament again. Yea, it was a massive putt, just at the right time.”
Fitzpatrick has worked hard to get his game major-championship worthy. He added length off the tee and kept his short game in order. Foster said there’s also mental hurdles that need to be conquered as well.
“You have to learn to lose to win. I think it was a big learning curve for him,” Foster said. “I always thought that coming to the U.S. Open, if he’s going to win a major, that’d be up there with his best chance, with how straight he is and he’s put on 25 yards the last 18 months, I don’t know what’s going on there but he’s turning into a bit of a beast. We played with DJ [Dustin Johnson] the first two days and he bombed a couple past DJ by 30-40 yards and I’m like ‘My God, he’s getting the attention.’
“But yea, his all-around game, his chipping has improved immensely. … Seve [Ballesteros] would be spinning his grave watching. I think he’s in the top 20 of every stat category on the tour so he’s a very consistent player.”
The U.S. Open will return to The Country Club on Thursday, but the course won’t play the same as it did when the Brookline club last hosted the prestigious event in 1988.
The routing is different than in 1988, when there was a one-tee start. Since 2002, golfers in the U.S. Open have started on the first and 10th tees in the first two rounds. At TCC, golfers will tee off the first and ninth tees to allow them to easily proceed to those tees from the practice areas.
In 1988, the U.S. Open at TCC played to a par of 71. This year, par will be 70 even though the course will stretch to 7,381 yards, about 250 more than 34 years ago.
The USGA will use 15 holes from TCC’s main course and four from its nine-hole Primrose course to form the other three holes.
Much of Primrose No. 1 and the green of No. 2 will be combined to form the 490-yard, par-4 13th hole for the championship. Primrose’s 425-yard, par-4 No. 9 will be No. 9 on the championship course, and Primrose’s 625-yard, No. 8 will be used as the 14th hole on the championship course.
The par-3, 131-yard 11th hole will be used, but the par-4, 432-yard fourth hole won’t be. It was the other way around in 1988. The broadcast compound will be located on part of the fourth hole.
Jeff Hall, USGA managing director of rules and open championships, is excited about the addition of the 11th hole, and he called it one of his favorites at TCC because just about every golfer can relate to playing a 131-yard hole.
“They can actually do it,” he said. “A 260-yard par 3, well, not so much. That’s a two-shot par 4 for me now. But on a 131-yard par 3, everybody can figure out what club they would hit. Maybe it’s a 7-wood for somebody, and it will be a wedge for the best players in the world, but everybody that connects with the U.S. Open connects with that shot.”
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10th hole is now a par 4
The 10th hole was a 515-yard par 5 in 1988, but will be a 499-yard par 4 this year. The 14th hole was a 450-yard par 4 in 1988, but will play as a 619-yard, par 5 this year. Architect Gil Hanse moved the tee back.
“It’s an adult golf hole,” Hall said. “If you do not drive it in the fairway there, you will have a real challenge to get it up on the plateau to play your little, short, third shot.”
When Curtis Strange won at TCC in 1988, he used a 2-iron or a 3-iron and a 9-iron on the 310-yard, downhill par-4 fifth hole.
“Nobody plays golf that way anymore,” Hall said. “We’ll see what they’ll do. I’m really fascinated to see how the modern golfer plays that particular hole. The Country Club is an old-school golf course. Small greens, very tight fairways. How is this modern golfer going to adapt to that or are they just going to let it rip?”
TCC was built to fit holes into the land the way it was. Caterpillar tractors didn’t clear anything, so TCC has some blind tee shots that modern golfers may not be used to hitting. Hall pointed out that Paul Azinger once told him that shots are only blind once — the first time someone hits them. After that, the golfer needs to figure it out.
“It will be interesting to see how the modern golfer adapts to this old-school golf course,” Hall said.
As usual for the U.S. Open, the rough will be punishing.
“When players start mumbling about the rough,” Hall said, “I remind them that we cut the fairways every single day, sometimes twice.”
In other words, hit it straight. Fairways will range from 22 or 24 yards wide up to 38 yards wide.
“But if you get it off that fairway, there’s going to be some rough, and that’s the idea,” Hall said. “We want to place a premium on driving the golf ball.”
Another change from 1988 is the playoff format. When each of the previous three U.S. Open championships were held at TCC, playoffs lasted 18 holes. Now they’re only two holes, and if the players are still tied, the playoff extends into sudden-death holes.
In 1913, amateur Francis Ouimet of Brookline defeated Britons Ted Ray and Harry Vardon in an 18-hole playoff at TCC.
In 1963, Julius Boros defeated Jacky Cupit and Arnold Palmer in an 18-hole playoff in the U.S. Open at TCC.
In 1988, Strange defeated Nick Faldo in an 18-hole playoff.
Can Rory McIlroy follow up his win in Canada with a victory outside Boston?
The world of golf is in New England for the 122nd U.S. Open at The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts, just outside of Boston.
After his win in Canada, Rory McIlroy enters the week as the betting favorite at +900. The Northern Irishman’s U.S. Open win came in 2011 when he won by eight shots at Congressional.
At +1000 is Justin Thomas. The reigning PGA champion has been on a roll of late on top of his major win. In his last four starts, he’s finished inside the top 5 three times.
Jon Rahm, who’s vying to defend the title he claimed at Torrey Pines last season, sits at +1300.
Driving accuracy: It’s the U.S. Open. If you don’t hit fairways you’re going to struggle.
Proximity from 175-200: There are several par-4s at TCC that will force driver out of the field’s hand, resulting in long-iron approaches.
Data Golf Information
Course Fit (compares golf courses based on the degree to which different golfer attributes — such as driving distance — to predict who performs well at each course – DataGolf): 1. Winged Foot, 2. Olympia Fields, 3. PGA National
Percent chance to win (based on course history, fit, trending, etc.): 1. Rory McIlroy (8.4 percent), 2. Justin Thomas (6 percent), 3. Scottie Scheffler (5.7 percent)
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When the amateur won the title in an upset against British veterans Harry Vardon and Ted Ray, he credited his caddie, Eddie Lowery, a 10-year-old boy from nearby Newton who was his loudest cheerleader.
The stunning victory cemented a place for Ouimet and Lowery — and The Country Club, host of the upcoming 2022 U.S. Open — in golf history. Here’s what you need to know about The Country Club.
Who was Francis Ouimet’s caddie?
A 20-year-old Brookline native who had caddied at TCC, Ouimet was fresh off a loss in the U.S. Amateur when the president of the United States Golf Association asked if he would play in the Open. Though he initially declined, Ouimet joined after his boss gave him time off to play.
Finding a caddie proved more difficult.
Lowery and his brother, Jack, played hooky from school to watch the play at TCC, and Jack agreed to caddie for Ouimet after the golfer’s original man bailed. When a truant officer caught Jack, however, Eddie took three street cars over to TCC and pleaded with Ouimet to take his brother’s place.
“I’ve never lost a ball,” Lowery advertised, not mentioning he had rarely caddied, according to TCC historian Frederick Waterman.
After winning the 1913 U.S. Open, Brookline’s Francis Ouimet, rear, credited his caddie, 10-year-old Eddie Lowery. Ouimet later dedicated this photo, writing over Lowery’s towel, “This is the boy who won the 1913 Open.” (Photo: The Country Club)
Knowing the course as well as he did, “Ouimet didn’t really need a caddie,” Waterman said. “What he needed was someone to believe in him, which Eddie Lowery did with all his heart.”
Ouimet’s win kickstarted the American golf boom, Waterman said. Both he and Lowery left lasting legacies at TCC, including a 2005 incident, when an assistant golf professional spotted the ghostly figures of a boy and a young man sitting on a bench, dressed in golf clothing from a century prior.
The Country Club membership
The ghost sightings — there have only been a couple over the years, according to Waterman — are part of the lore of The Country Club, one of the United States’ oldest and most exclusive clubs.
Founded in 1882, TCC only began allowing women as voting members in 1989, and didn’t have a Jewish member until the 1970s, or a Black member until 1994.
So exclusive is the club that former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick said he and his wife were “blackballed” from joining. Former New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady — whose previous residence is visible from the TCC course — had a difficult time getting in.
In its early days, The Country Club employed a flock of sheep to keep the greens trimmed. (Photo: The Country Club)
Who founded The Country Club?
The Country Club’s unique name, lacking identifiers, hints at its historical status. When he and his friends set out to create the club, founder J. Murray Forbes, an international trader, borrowed the name from a club in Shanghai.
At the time of its founding, The Country Club was the only “country club” in the Western Hemisphere, according to Waterman.
While TCC has hosted many high-profile golf competitions, including the 1999 Ryder Cup, 2013 U.S. Amateur and three U.S. Opens, early activities were primarily equestrian.
Establishing the golf course
Golf came to Massachusetts in 1892 with Florence Boit, who brought equipment back from her studies in Europe and shared the game with her uncle and friends. Smitten, the new golf converts convinced TCC’s executive committee to spend $50 to lay out six holes on the Clyde Park grounds.
Willie Campbell, the club’s first head golf professional, helped expand the course. His wife, Georgina, later became America’s first female golf professional at nearby Franklin Park.
Georgina Campbell, wife of Willie Campbell, the first head golf professional at The Country Club. Willie later moved over to Franklin Park, and Georgina took over after he died in 1900, becoming the first female head pro in the U.S. (Photo: The Country Club)
Meanwhile, TCC rose to the top of America’s nascent golf industry as one of five charter clubs to found the United States Golf Association.
In the second U.S. Open in 1896, European pros threatened to withdraw if John Shippen, a Black man, and Oscar Bunn, a member of the Shinnecock Nation, were allowed to play at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club, their home course. The USGA’s president put his foot down, the naysayers backed off, and Shippen and Bunn played.
When the U.S. Open came to Brookline in 1913, TCC — which boasted four of the USGA’s first eight presidents — guaranteed Shippen was welcome. No Black man would play again in the U.S. Open until 1948.
Tricky course: One of the best in the U.S.
Over the years, The Country Club has attracted the world’s greatest golfers, many of whom have loved and lost on the tricky course.
Half a century after Ouimet’s victory, golf was experiencing another boom as the charismatic, telegenic Arnold Palmer rose in popularity. Palmer came to TCC for the 1963 U.S. Open, and spectators watched in horror as his ball came to a rest in a tree stump at the 11th hole. It took Palmer three swings to get it back into the fairway.
During the 1963 U.S. Open at The Country Club, legendary golfer Arnold Palmer watched as his ball came to a rest at a rotted tree stump at the 11th hole. He gamely took three swings and managed to get it into the fairway, but ultimately came up short to Julius Boros. (Photo: The Country Club)
During the 1963 U.S. Open at The Country Club, legendary golfer Arnold Palmer watched as his ball came to a rest at a rotted tree stump at the 11th hole. He gamely took three swings and managed to get it into the fairway, but ultimately came up short to Julius Boros.
Other pros have learned the hard way that TCC’s course requires strategizing, rather than hitting long. Jack Nicklaus “tried to impose his game on the course,” Waterman recalled, missing the cut in both 1963 and 1988, when TCC next hosted the U.S. Open.
TCC, which covers more than 235 acres, regularly ranks among the best courses in the world. In May, Golfweek ranked TCC the best private course in Massachusetts.
“You want a golf course to be like having a conversation with an interesting person, so that every time you meet that person you have a different conversation,” Waterman said. “The best golf courses are the ones where every round is different, but it’s always interesting, it’s always compelling because of the variety, because of what it demands of you.”
The course’s natural features set it apart, particularly the rocky outcroppings and fescue grass-lined bunkers, which look unfinished by design, said Brendan Walsh, TCC’s head golf professional.
The Country Club has played host to golf’s greats, including The Golden Bear himself, Jack Nicklaus.
Walsh listed the third hole as one of his favorites. “It’s our number one handicap hole in the front nine, and it’s a beautiful vista from the tee,” he said. “You look down and the horizon is our skating pond, as we call it.”
Both the third hole and 11th — another of Walsh’s favorites — have similar features, driving down to a generous area that funnels into a narrower path among the rocks, he explained.
Which holes will be used for the 2022 U.S. Open?
The club’s main course consists of the Clyde and Squirrel nines combined, and the upcoming U.S. Open will be played on a composite course including 15 holes from Clyde and Squirrel, as well as four additional holes from the Primrose nine (the first and second holes will be combined, Walsh explained).
He said the 2022 Open, to be played June 13-19, is meaningful in light of Ouimet’s 1913 win there, which put the game of golf on the map in America.
“For the U.S. Open to come back to that location where the history began and people realized that it’s an accessible game for all is what’s the most exciting,” he said. “To be able to share that around the world is pretty special.”
