Golf, by TourMiss

ERIN HILLS .. BIG NUMBERS Here is some figures the USGA that will come into play at the U.S. Open. Seating …. 16,988 seats with the 18th accommodating 2,942 seats. Food … 36,000 14 lb hot dogs likely to be sold, 33,000 cheese burgers, 125, 000 16oz souvenir beer and soda cups & 27, 000 bags of potato chisps. Communications … 20 miles of fibre optic cable along with 640 walkie talkies. Tented area . 74,864 square feet of floor space in the 300 tents and more than six times the square footage ...

Erin Hills, Wisconsin …. Richie Ramsay is feeling very much at home seeing a bit of Murcar Links, the Renaissance course and Crail in this week’s U.S. OCen host course at Erin Hills. Ramsay is contesting his first U.S. Open as a professional in a decade since winning the 2006 U.S. Amateur and electing to remain amateur so as to be eligible for the Masters, U.S. Open and PGA Championship. Since then he has only ever contested a U.S. based Major and that 2013 and 2015 PGA Championship. Ramsay ...

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Most everything in the States is never any bigger than the Lone State of Texas. Well, tell that to the four Irish and their 152 colleagues tackling this week’s U.S. Open host venue at Erin Hills which will be akin to tackling a monster. In fact, Congressional in suburban Washington D. C, and where Rory McIlroy won the 2011 U.S. Open in a cakewalk, is a mere baby set out over some 400 acres. And where Justin Rose won three years later at Merion in Philadelphia the course is a tiny tot spread over ...

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