Golf’s Unpredictability Gives Group Chasing Martin Kaymer Hope at 2014 US Open

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Published: June 14, 2014

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PINEHURST, N.C. — Golf is a funny sport. In baseball, nobody takes away your runs. Football doesn’t delete touchdowns once they’re on the board. But in golf, you can pick up strokes—or lose them—before you walk out of the locker room.

Before you swing a club for the first time in any round.

That’s because of how the other players are swinging.

A safe lead? You’d think Arnold Palmer six shots ahead of Billy Casper with six holes to play in the 1966 U.S. Open would have been a safe lead. Sorry. They tied, and Casper won the playoff.

How about Dr. Gil Morgan at Pebble Beach in 1992 becoming the first person ever to hit double digits under par—he reached 12-under—and, midway into the third round, moving into a seven-shot lead? The poor man went 17-over par the last 27 holes of that tournament and tied for 13th.



So while the fans and some pros are in awe of what Martin Kaymer has done the first two rounds of this U.S. Open at Pinehurst, making only one bogey on a course full of sand, pine straw and trouble, tying a record 10-under 65-65 for 130, and building a (gasp!) six-shot lead, concessions are not yet in order.

“You never know what will happen in a U.S. Open,” said Phil Mickelson, a living example of what has happened, primarily from his collapse in 2006. “We have always had crazy things happen. So you just never know. There’s a lot of guys ready to pounce if he slips up.”

Among the would-be pouncers are Brendon Todd, who is four-under 69-67 for 136, Kevin Na at 68-69 for 137 and Brandt Snedeker, who is 69-68 for 137. Then come a group at two-under 138, which includes one gentleman who knows all about squandering Open leads in Dustin Johnson, former PGA champion Keegan Bradley, Brooks Koepka, Brendon de Jonge and Henrik Stenson.

Another shot behind are Rory McIl...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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