2018 U.S. Open Preview: Picks, bold predictions, course info, more

The First Cut Golf

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4.5 • 664 Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2018

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

U.S. Open week has arrived! Before Kyle Porter travels to the tournament, he and Chip Patterson discuss Dustin Johnson as this year's favorite (7:00), the mounting pressure on Phil Mickelson to complete the grand slam (17:00) and what to expect from Tiger Woods (23:30) before getting into the history of Shinnecock Hills, what kind of players might benefit from the course setup (27:00) and some over-under predictions regarding the scoring at this year's championship. Plus, predictions for Rickie Fowler (41:30), Jordan Spieth (47:30), Justin Thomas (51:30) and Rory McIlroy (57:00).

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0:00.0	US Open Week is finally here.
0:12.8	Chip Patterson here.
0:13.7	First Cut podcast with Kyle Porter.
0:15.1	Kyle Porter, he is packing his bags for Long Island.
0:19.1	He is going to wear all of his fanciest clothes for the
0:22.9	first incorporated country club. Nothing short of what a late 19th century, Monsieur Vanderbilt,
0:31.7	would approve of. How are we feeling, man? It's Monday morning. This is it.
0:38.1	I'm very, very excited for you and for us and for all golf fans as we head into the
0:42.6	U.S. Open.
0:44.3	Yeah, I'm great.
0:45.4	I've been grinding on late 1800s New York Times articles from not only the second U.S. Open, which was played at Shinnecock, but also the second US AM,
0:58.4	which was played the day before the second US Open at Shinnecock, which is an absurd thing to
1:03.3	think about right now.
1:05.2	But yeah, we've come a long way since I think it was 1896 was the first US.S. Open at Shinnikai. But man, I'm fired
1:13.3	up. I mean, this is, this is obviously, I just feel like every major right now is monumental.
1:21.0	And, you know, I wrote this a little bit, but part of that is Tiger. And part of it is just like,
1:26.8	I mean, I go through the top 20 in the world
1:28.6	you've got like 13 either sure fire hall of famers or guys that are trending in that direction
1:34.6	I mean it's it's absurd you know it's it's a crazy time in golf and shinnock is an awesome course
1:43.0	and I'm excited like I was in 2016 to see
1:46.9	one of the classics and see who it produces as the champion on Sunday night.
1:53.3	Okay, I've got nine over-unders that I'm going to sprinkle through this podcast and you
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