2015 U.S. Open | Wei Under Par

Jul

16

2015

WHAT? THIS OLD THING: DJ smokes St Andrews

By Stephanie Wei under British Open

If you ever had any doubt that Dustin Johnson wouldn’t bounce back right away after his disappointing finish at the U.S. Open, then you obviously don’t follow golf very closely. He’s a different kind of beast, which is only to his benefit as a professional golfer. Johnson, who isn’t the most introspective person in the world, doesn’t have the DNA to hold onto scar tissue, nor does he really mull over letdowns.

Johnson proved that in the first round of the Open Championship and continued his strong play from Chambers Bay, bringing it to St Andrews and posting a seven-under 65 to take the clubhouse lead (which will probably still hold at the end of the day, with the afternoon wave battling tougher conditions).

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Jul

13

2015

Dustin not dwelling, ready to go

By Stephanie Wei under British Open

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Dustin Johnson insists it didn’t take long for him to get over the disappointment from the U.S. Open, where he had a 12-footer for eagle to win outright and a four-footer on the 72nd hole to tie Jordan Spieth and force an 18-hole playoff the following Monday. Johnson missed both putts and settled with a share of runner-up honors.

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Jun

28

2015

“What would you advise Fox to do for next year’s U.S. Open coverage?”

By Stephanie Wei under US Open

I’m a little late to the party on Fox’s inaugural broadcast of the U.S. Open — and golf, for that matter, but I decided to stay in Seattle for an extra week to hang out with my family and friends. After all, as you could see on the telecast at Chambers Bay, the weather is friggin’ beautiful in this area of the country.

(I love how Seattle-ites have been complaining about how it’s “too hot” when it’s, like, 85 degrees and no humidity, though. I mean, I guess it does suck when 99% of people don’t have air conditioning in their homes.)

But I digress. The Twitter-sphere exploded with armchair TV media critics griping last week about Fox’s first-ever time covering the U.S. Open. People seemed to really miss Johnny Miller (just admit it) and the rest of the familiar NBC crew.

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Jun

22

2015

“Friends of Tiger” U.S. Open wrap podcast

By Stephanie Wei under US Open

My housemates Shane Ryan, Teddy Greenstein and Jon McCarthy and I gathered around the table one last time late Sunday evening (or early Monday morning) to reflect on the U.S. Open at Chambers Bay, Dustin Johnson’s disappointing 72nd hole and Jordan Spieth, who now is halfway to the grand slam.

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Jun

22

2015

Spieth wins! Youngest to do, um, everything

By Stephanie Wei under US Open

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As Jordan Spieth walked off the 18th green at Chambers Bay on Sunday, he slapped his hands together loudly out of frustration. He thought he had just lost the U.S. Open, which would have been his second straight major title, after he missed his 15-footer for eagle, settling for a tap-in birdie. However, it wasn’t necessarily the putt that he was bemoaning, rather the double-bogey he had made on the penultimate hole, the par-3 17th, following a 30-footer he drained for birdie on the par-4 16th.

But it clearly wasn’t over yet.

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Jun

22

2015

Torture Chambers: DJ three-putts to lose

By Stephanie Wei under US Open

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Shocking. Heartbreaking. Appalling. Those are just a few adjectives to describe the atmosphere around the 18th green after Dustin Johnson missed a three-footer for birdie to tie Jordan Spieth at five-under for the championship and miss out on an 18-hole playoff the following day to go head-to-head for the U.S. Open title.

My God. Did that really just happen? The fans in the largest-ever grandstands surrounding the 72nd hole murmured and gasped in horror. No one knew what to say or think.

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Jun

22

2015

Bumpy reaction to Chambers Bay’s greens

By Stephanie Wei under US Open

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All week there was chatter about the poor condition of the greens at Chambers Bay. The pros expected better, especially at a U.S. Open, one of the four major championships in golf.

I learned in 2010 at the first U.S. Open I covered that talking to players on Sunday after they’re finished enduring what’s deemed as the toughest test of golf is one of the most amusing days of the year — because they tend to vent and rant. However, this time around, there was plenty of complaints about the greens throughout the week.

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Jun

21

2015

Great Scott! Aussie’s game resurfaces

By Nicole Gaddie under US Open

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Adam Scott hasn’t had the best season in the world, especially for a guy who was ranked no. 1 in the world at this time last year, so he drifted relatively under the radar this week at the U.S. Open — that is, until Sunday’s final round when he shot the low score of the week, posting a six-under 64.

The finish boosted him into a tie for fourth, along with fellow Australian Cameron Smith and South African Branden Grace at three-under, 277 for the championship.