Golf US Open Oakmont: Migliozzi, Molinari Edoardo and Pavan in the field

Is the US Open famous for being the most difficult major? Well, that of this year – it is played tomorrow, Thursday, on Sunday – it is announced even more difficult than usual. Someone already says: it will be a massacre. The field of Oakmont, Pennsylvania, is considered the hardest in America, and for weeks the gardeners have been working to make it even worse: the fairways is restricted, the Rough made a span grow up high. And then those bunkers with imaginative shapes from which it is really difficult to go out. The trial turns made these days by the players have not changed the perception, on the contrary: even the big names stumbled upon a series of Bogey and double Bogey, if not worse as happened to Rory McILory who came here until last week, before going to play in Canada, to try the field: a nightmare.

All the best

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This is the US Open, moreover, the major that feeds on his legend of “Mangia Golfisti”. Bryson Dechambeau, the reigning champion, one who has always theorized that did not need the precision in golf, but that the secret was to pull as far as possible and as far as possible and that even if the ball had ended up in Rough, it was always better to be close to the green with the ball put a little badly than far from the green with the ball put well, admitted it so. This time he said: “Whoever manages to stay in Fairway will win.” It is the tenth time that the US Open is played in Oakmont, the first in 1927, the last one in 2016 when Dustin Johnson won. In the Field of 156 players there are 49 of the best 50 in the world, the only absent is Billy Horschel, injured.

Favorito Scheffler

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The favorite is obviously Scottie Scheffler who won three of the last four races in which he participated in successes (CJ Cup Byron Nelson, PGA Championship and The Memorial Tournament), even if he tries to hide: “I don’t take care of these things, who is the favorite of the bookmakers. Thursday morning we all start on equal, I can only go to the field and play the best possible”. This year he also managed to take a week of rest before coming to Oakmont, it could be a nice advantage for him. The other big favorite is Rory Mcilory, who this year won the Masters besides the At & T Pebble Beach Pro-Am and The Players, but last week in Canada he did not spend the cut, which has not been very unusual for him, it hadn’t happened to him for a year. He had to change the drive because at the PGA Championship he was judged not to comply with the rules, probably for usury, and may not have found the right tool yet.

blue trio

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Italy is represented by three players: Guido Migliozzi, Edoardo Molinari and Andrea Pavan, all arrived through the qualifications. Migliozzi in his career played 7 Major, including two US Open where he achieved the best results. Fourth in 2021 (on his debut in a major), fourteenth in 2022, he returns to play the tournament after two years. Molinari, the first deputy chief of the Europe team at the Ryder Cup of Bethpage (26-28 September in New York), of Major played 18. On the sixth US Open, he boasts what better test a 35th place in 2021. Pavan instead returns to the US Open eleven years after the last time (89th in 2014). It was from 2019 (The Open) that did not participate in such an important race. Molinari will begin his first lap at 14.24 (Italian time), Pavan at 6.30 pm, Migliozzi at 6.41 pm. First goal pass the cut, then you can also dream a little bigger …