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I played this year's U.S Open courses — Erin Hills and Oakmont — in a span of 36 hours, and learned something special along the way.
ERIN HILLS -- A steady stream of fans visit the merchandise pavilion at Erin Hills, all in search of a piece of history from the very first U.S. Open here in Wisconsin.
Erin Hills officially measured 7,760 yards for the 2011 U.S. Amateur, and Morrissett anticipates a similar yardage for the U.S. Open, which would make it the longest course in championship history.
ERIN, Wis. — If you’re so obliged to follow the long, winding road, you can take about a dozen county roads to get here. There’s no traffic, except for when a wild turkey crosses the road ...
Erin Hills is a privately owned public golf course, befitting the USGA's populist desire to grow the game, in an untapped market. The course sits on 652 acres, an expanse unprecedented in ...
The original Erin Hills, with a keepsake from the 117th U.S. Open at the course that bears her name. (USGA/Kayla Schaffer) Hills, who works at Columbus Community Hospital, has something in common with ...
Ed. note: Erin Hills Golf Course, site of this week's U.S. Women's Open, first opened to the public in 2006. But planning for it began nearly a decade before that.
It was surprising to see those three all miss the cut because they are all great drivers and Erin Hills, with far wider fairways than probably any course that has ever held a U.S. Open, encourages ...
ERIN, Wis. — What are we doing here? How come they can play the British Open on the same courses every year, but the U.S. Golf Association has to go invent a course for its U.S. Open? Doesn’t ...
Erin Hills didn’t reopen until July 2009, so Lang missed out on potential revenue in May and June. Worse, the course’s construction scars hadn’t yet healed.
ERIN, Wis. — The gentle, rolling prairies of Erin Hills, emerging from the collision of glaciers more than 10,000 years ago and home this week to the 117th edition of the U.S. Open, offer a ...
But more than that, he had helped sell Erin Hills to the USGA and now was concerned about the status of the 2011 U.S. Amateur. “Andy and Bob were going back and forth, back and forth,” he said.