Rory McIlroy contradicts Brooks Koepka over U.S. Open setup at LACC

Rory McIlroy and Brooks Koepka have mixed to win 9 main championships and are clearly the 2 biggest gamers of the post-Tiger Woods period.

Thus, each time these two converse, folks pay attention. Their phrases carry lots of weight.

Following Friday’s spherical, Koepka made it recognized he was not a fan of this course, in a really blunt approach.

Clearly, McIlroy doesn’t agree together with his evaluation of the Los Angeles Country Club as a U.S. Open venue.

“It’s felt like a U.S. Open all week,” McIlroy stated Saturday. “The scoring was surprisingly low over the first couple of days, but it doesn’t look or feel like any of the other three major championships. The U.S. Open has definitely got its own identity, and I think that identity was pretty strong from the opening tee shot on Thursday.”

Both gamers made the minimize on the 123rd U.S. Open, as McIlroy heads into the ultimate spherical only a stroke behind Rickie Fowler and Wyndham Clark, the 54-hole leaders.

Koepka, in the meantime, sits at even par—ten strokes again—after he shot an even-par 70 on Saturday. One has to marvel if Koepka’s efficiency performed into how he felt concerning the course.

“I think [the winning score] should be around par,” Koepka stated after Friday’s spherical. “I’m not a huge fan of this place. I’m not a huge fan of blind tee shots, and then I think there are just some spots where no matter what you hit, the ball ends up in the same spot. I think it would be more fun to play on just like a regular round than it would be a U.S. Open.”

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Koepka doesn’t just like the Los Angeles Country Club, as he has struggled to realize momentum. On Saturday, Koepka bought it to 3-under par however then double-bogeyed the brief par-3 fifteenth—the shortest par-3 in U.S. Open historical past—after which dropped a shot on the ending gap too.

On the opposite hand, McIlroy has blistered his golf ball throughout LACC as he leads the sphere in strokes gained off the tee. McIlroy opened with a 5-under 65, shot a 3-under 67 on Friday, after which carded a 1-under 69 on Saturday to place himself in a fantastic spot heading into Sunday.

These two weren’t the one gamers to discipline the sort of query. Viktor Hovland shared comparable sentiments with Koepka. He doesn’t like LACC both.

Regardless, a U.S. Open championship is on the road Sunday, and McIlroy has a fantastic likelihood to win his first main title in 9 years.