‘That’s absolutely gone’: Collin Morikawa chip shows the cruelty of the U.S. Open greens

Absolutely brutal.

Everyone who told you the greens at Pinehurst No. 2 were going to be brutal wasn’t lying.

We saw that in the first round of the 2024 U.S. Open on Thursday, with some golf balls that looked pretty good … until the hard, fast greens chewed them up and spit them out.

That happened to Collin Morikawa, who hit one from the sand and watched as it didn’t bite at all. Instead it rolled. And rolled. And rolled … all the way off the green.

Here’s Morikawa’s shot that rolled forever, along with some others who had trouble with the greens early in the first round:

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