DUBLIN, Ohio Considering their shared style of architecture and the mystical quality of a new major venue, the site of this years U.S. Open, Erin Hills, is unsurprisingly drawing comparisons to its 2015 predecessor, Chambers Bay.But the man who walked away from Chambers a champion says the similarities are more superficial than substantive.Addressing the media at Murifield Village on Wednesday, Jordan Spieth offered his assessment of what Chambers and Erin do and dont have in common.Its not as tricky [as Chambers Bay], said Spieth, who made it to the quarterfinals of the 2011 U.S Amateur at Erin Hills. I think its a little more in front of you. Its a very different style golf course even though its kind of coming off ahead of time as being similar.Chambers Bay, you had big mounds to play off onto the greens. [Erin] is kind of rolling hills. Although, neither one has a tree that I remember on the golf course. It was kind of a new-style American Links type. They both are. But I think theyll play tremendously different.Spieth says he plans to arrive in Wisconsin the Saturday before the U.S. Open to play at least two full rounds on Sunday and Monday, allowing him to do the majority of the work early on and kind of be able to just fine-tune things the last couple days.
U.S. Open golf 2017: Jordan Spieth expects big swing at Erin Hills' No. 18, literally and figuratively. Written By Bob Hille. Share. Two years ago at Chambers Bay, it went down to the 72nd
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WHY ERIN HILLS WILL BE DIFFERENT. To find players with knowledge of both Chambers Bay and Erin Hills, you have to go back to those two U.S. Amateurs, the first big-time tournaments for each course.
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Nick Menta at GolfChannel.com reporting from the Memorial where Jordan Spieth explained the differences between 2015 U.S. Open venue Chambers Bay (where he won) and 2017 host Erin Hills. "Chambers Bay, you had big mounds to play off onto the greens. [Erin] is kind of rolling hills. Although
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Whether it was the bumpy greens of Chambers Bay in 2015, the record-low numbers at Erin Hills in 2017 or last year's greens at Shinnecock Hills that frustrated I have no doubt," Spieth
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Chambers Bay is in that final group, along with Erin Hills in Wisconsin, Torrey Pines near San Diego and Los Angeles Country Club, which will make its U.S. Open debut in 2023.
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With no Puget Sound, but good greens, Erin Hills' look and scale will remind some of Chambers Bay, where Spieth won his U.S. Open in 2015, beating DJ by a stroke. Look for the same result this time.
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Spieth: Erin Hills is no Chambers Bay. BY Nick Menta — May 31, 2017 at 5:28 PM. The site of this year's U.S. Open, Erin Hills, is drawing comparisons to its 2015 predecessor, Chambers Bay, but
Erin Hills a course of a different color to Chambers Bay
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Erin Hills a course of a different color to Chambers Bay The par four 11th hole is part of Erin Hills, a daily fee golf course in the town of Erin which will host the 2017 U.S. Open Championship
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Jordan Spieth hits out of the is under pressure to get it right this year at Pebble Beach after a series of missteps marred U.S. Opens at Shinnecock Hills, Erin Hills and Chambers Bay.
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The site of this year's U.S. Open, Erin Hills, is drawing comparisons to its 2015 predecessor, Chambers Bay, but Jordan Spieth says those comparisons are off base.
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