Video: Mickelson's Take On The New Look Pinehurst No. 2
/Phil Mickelson teed it up at Pinehurst No. 2
Read MoreWhen you come to think of it that is the secret of most of the great holes all over the world. They all have some kind of a twist. C.B. MACDONALD
Pinehurst Gets It's No. 9, Buys National Golf Club
/A short John Dell story
Read More2014 U.S. Open Sectional Qualifying Day Is Here!
/One of golf’s great days is here, aka Golf’s Longest Day when a network was crazy enough to televise it at a big loss under the belief that the non-profit USGA appreciated their partners for things other than cold, hard cash.
Therefore, the U.S. Open Sectional Qualifying returns to its dark place of page refreshes, late night articles and skimpy photo galleries for that always-gratifying day introducing us to the talented people who qualify for the most democratic major.
The USGA has a page devoted to the storylines, and there are some doozies. There are also preview stories for each sectional that will take you to a devotional page including a link to scoring pages as the numbers are posted.
There is also this page including all of the qualifiers. And this Road to the Sectionals primer.
Video: Pinehurst No. 2's Tenth Hole
/The beautiful, bending long par-5 10th is the last of the round and one modified by Donald Ross to be less penal for the average golfer, as Ran Morrissett explained in his GolfClubAtlas profile. The fall off behind the green elevated above the fairway makes third shots tricky here, so there's a huge reward for the bombers who can get on or near the green in two.
The hole will measure 617 yards for the U.S. Open, 571 yards for the U.S. Women's Open.
A photo from this February of the tee view:
The flyover:
Video: Pinehurst No. 2's Ninth Hole
/One of the prime inspirations for the calls to restore sandy scrub to Pinehurst
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/John Nagy of The Pilot reports
Read MoreVideo: Pinehurst No. 2's Eighth Hole
/Arguably the most visualy appealing hole on the property,
Read MoreVideo: Pinehurst No. 2's Seventh Hole
/The seventh hole will look entirely different than it has in previous U.S. Opens
Read MoreVideo: Pinehurst No. 2's Sixth Hole
/The par-3 sixth calls on another demanding right-to-left shaped shot that probably should fly to the green. While the opening appears generous to land one short, the deep swale and bunker left of the green will attract a lot of seemingly good shots.
This 219-yard hole for the men, 175 yards for the women, was added in 1923 by Donald Ross when he modified this portion of the course.
The USGA flyover:
Video: Pinehurst No. 2's Fifth Hole
/One of the more extraordinary holes on the planet has been changed for the 2014 U.S. Open
Read MoreVideo: Pinehurst No. 2's Fourth Hole
/No hole has seen a greater visual transformation at Pinehurst No. 2 than the fourth
Read MoreVideo: Pinehurst No. 2's Third Hole
/Before Coore and Crenshaw were allowed to put back the sandy roughs at Pinehurst
Read MoreVideo: Pinehurst No. 2's Second Hole
/The opening hole at Pinehurst No. 2 offers a reward to those who lay up down the right side
Read MoreVideo: Pinehurst No. 2's First Hole
/The USGA has again posted flyovers to Pinehurst No. 2,
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/Good on Doug Ferguson
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