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Brian Keogh’s US Open preview: Scottie Scheffler holds all the aces going into war of attrition

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Brian Keogh’s US Open preview: Scottie Scheffler holds all the aces going into war of attrition

World No 1 Scottie Scheffler is the overwhelming favourite to continue a magical run of form when the US Open begins at Pinehurst No 2. Photo: Alex Slitz/Getty

The late great LA Times sportswriter Jim Murray brilliantly described the white-knuckle demolition derby known as the Indianapolis 500 with this immortal line from an imaginary starter. “Gentlemen, start your coffins!”

He might have been describing the US Open, the golf tournament that brings a smile to the face of every sofa-bound sadist and reduces the greatest golfers in the world to quivering wrecks as they are taken to the limits of golfing sanity by the lords of the USGA.

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