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US Open: Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry among the late starters at Pinehurst

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US Open: Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry among the late starters at Pinehurst

Here’s a little flavour of the challenges being faced by those in action at the famous Pinehurst No.2.

If you’re wondering why the name is followed by no.2, it’s because there are nine other courses at the sweeping North Carolina venue.

“F***edville’ – USGA risk wrath of players with ‘carnage’ predicted on Pinehurst’s brutal US Open greens”

The headline tells you just about all you need to know.

“If there is a farce, it will almost certainly unfold not in the wire-grass from the sandhills that flank the fairways, but on the turtle-back greens with their sadistic runoffs. There is one area behind the 14th green that Shay Knight, Viktor Hovland’s caddie, has named f***edville.”

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