Scottie Scheffler Secret / Use Toe of Putter to Chip from 5" Rough? 😳😳
I have never seen this chipping technique used before from 5" rough! The USGA notoriously likes to grow the rough thick and penal for the US Open in their quest to create what they call the “toughest test in golf”. So in true US Open style, heaps of tall grass and very few mowers at Brookline last week for the 2022 championship. On top of lightning-fast greens and brutally narrow fairways, the USGA had their host venue’s rough grown for months before the third major of the year tees off, producing a truly gnarly challenge for all golfers. Typical US Open rough grows anywhere between 2 and 6 inches depending on the type of grass. By example, the dense fescue at Shinnecock Hills for the 2018 tournament was around 4 inches thick. At Winged Foot in 2020, the USGA then upped the ante by having the meadow grass grown to 6 inches deep. For this year’s US Open at The Country Club at Brookline, the course utilized agrostis grass – which you’ll probably know as bentgrass – which is characterized by thin, shallow blades which have a dense root system, meaning even with heavy spectator foot traffic, the cuts still retain most of their savage thickness. Consisting of three different cuts, the US Open rough at Brookline was around 5.4 inches deep.
I have never seen this chipping technique used before from 5" rough! The USGA notoriously likes to grow the rough thick and penal for the US Open in their quest to create what they call the “toughest test in golf”. So in true US Open style, heaps of tall grass and very few mowers at Brookline last week for the 2022 championship. On top of lightning-fast greens and brutally narrow fairways, the USGA had their host venue’s rough grown for months before the third major of the year tees off, producing a truly gnarly challenge for all golfers. Typical US Open rough grows anywhere between 2 and 6 inches depending on the type of grass. By example, the dense fescue at Shinnecock Hills for the 2018 tournament was around 4 inches thick. At Winged Foot in 2020, the USGA then upped the ante by having the meadow grass grown to 6 inches deep. For this year’s US Open at The Country Club at Brookline, the course utilized agrostis grass – which you’ll probably know as bentgrass – which is characterized by thin, shallow blades which have a dense root system, meaning even with heavy spectator foot traffic, the cuts still retain most of their savage thickness. Consisting of three different cuts, the US Open rough at Brookline was around 5.4 inches deep.