{"id":2308,"date":"2026-06-03T17:06:57","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T17:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=2308"},"modified":"2026-06-03T17:06:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T17:06:57","slug":"shinnecock-scouting-report-scheffler-and-mcilroy-say-wide-fairways-and-big-rough-for-us-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=2308","title":{"rendered":"Shinnecock scouting report: Scheffler and McIlroy say wide fairways and big rough for US Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>DUBLIN, Ohio (AP) \u2014 Rory McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler took a detour to Shinnecock Hills on their way to the Memorial and saw fairways a lot wider than what they have come to expect at a U.S. Open.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=2306\">Belmont Park rebuild nears the finish line as the Belmont Stakes is a year from returning home<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Open returns to Shinnecock Hills for the first time since 2018, when Brooks Koepka won during a tough, dry week in which no one finished under par.<\/p>\n<p>Scheffler had never been to the fabled course on New York\u2019s Long Island, which held the second edition of the U.S. Open in 1896. This major is bigger than usual for the world\u2019s No. 1 player because a victory would make him only the seventh player to complete the career Grand Slam.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was kind of what I expected,\u201d Scheffler said. \u201cI had heard some rumors about how difficult the greens were. I was a little surprised at the width of the fairways, but the green complexes there are extremely difficult, and I think that\u2019s where the greatest challenge comes from.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also said the rough was thick and penal. That\u2019s typical of a U.S. Open. A vintage U.S. Open has firm greens, and that looks to be the case, provided the weather cooperates.<\/p>\n<p>Narrow fairways? Not so much.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fairways are very generous,\u201d said McIlroy, who missed the cut with rounds of 80-70 when he first played a U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills. \u201cThey\u2019re more generous than they were in 2018. But the first cut of rough is 5 inches long. So it\u2019s like the first cut is maybe three paces wide and then it gets into the fescue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo if you miss the fairway even by a yard \u2026 but you shouldn\u2019t. The fairways are very, very generous. So if you miss the fairway, I feel like you deserve a bad lie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It will be a big week for the USGA to get it right. In 2004, the par-3 seventh green was so dead on Sunday that players couldn\u2019t keep the golf ball on the putting surface and USGA officials wound up watering the green between groups.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=2304\">Charles Leclerc signs new multiyear deal with Ferrari in F1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then in 2018, some of the greens became so severe that it was thought to be borderline unplayable. Phil Mickelson swatted a moving golf ball on the 13th green out of frustration. Officials softened the course so much for the final day that Tommy Fleetwood shot 63.<\/p>\n<p>The course has a reputation of being tough, and Scheffler felt it lived up to that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe rough, also, was a really good penalty for the width,\u201d he said. \u201cOnce you start missing fairways out there, you have no chance. But the fairways are generous enough to where it provides you some opportunity, and that way it\u2019s just that the green complexes are extraordinarily difficult.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey can put the pins wherever they want and make the scores as high as they could possibly want them to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McIlroy said the greens were around 11 on the Stimpmeter when he played on Monday and he doesn\u2019t see a need for them to get much faster.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think if they can keep them at that green speed, they can get them firm, and they can use the hole locations that they want to use without having some of the struggles that they have had the last couple of U.S. Opens. \u2026 If it\u2019s set up the right way, I think it\u2019s one of the best championship tests in the country. It\u2019s an amazing golf course.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=2302\">Game 1: Spurs and Knicks set to open the NBA Finals on Wednesday night in San Antonio<\/a><\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP golf: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/golf<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBLIN, Ohio (AP) \u2014 Rory McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler took a detour to Shinnecock Hills&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Shinnecock scouting report: Scheffler and McIlroy say wide fairways and big rough for US Open - Raleigh Moving News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=2308\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Shinnecock scouting report: Scheffler and McIlroy say wide fairways and big rough for US Open - 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