Putters will drive golfers crazy. But that’s why Sam Burns leads the U.S. to openly

Oakmont, Pennsylvania – At 8:30 a.m. Friday, the driving range is empty. Starting from the wave of day one in the second day of the United States, everyone is on the course or is about to become. Besides one professional player, Shane Lowry worked with his coach for a full five hours before his serving time.

Why?

Because putting can drive a person crazy. But this can also help you improve your rankings. While Lowry was grinding, Sam Burns was on the court and won a 21-foot-long game for Birdie on November 11. He had a fixed six consecutive holes in the middle of the morning, adding birds to 17, 18 and 2. Even his two putts were excellent, just like 106 feet, he landed in 4 inches and landed in 4 inches for another bird. His round ended with a 22-foot cur to 2 and 65 points, exceeding the average score of 9.

In a week, the professionals correctly insist that conquering Oakmont is to launch a long straightforward drive, and Burns is your leader because he is the best leader to carefully put Little Orb into a small hole. 99% of the 99th percentile on Earth is as high as 99%. There is a reason we call it players like him and their equipment sticks – they can make magic magic.

Enough to win the U.S. Open?

Oakmont’s Green Party in 2025 is 15% bigger than in 2016, thanks to a recent renovation. They are just a larger playground where everyone can play, including the USGA setup team, which can prove that Friday’s hole location cut into many new corners of these remodeled surfaces. The firmness and the danger of roughness of the turf prevent most approaching shots from being super close, thus making the flat stick earn or lose a lot. It can enter and make you happy, and it may also miss and make you speak like Jon Rahm.

“Very frustrated,” he said. “I played very little golf in my life and I think I hit a good putt and they didn’t smell the hole, so it was frustrating.”

For something so obvious, there are more putts displayed on the broadcast than any other lens type – and everywhere – who hasn’t been to the mini golf date? – Putters still make the golf world very confusing. It was Burns and Bryson DeChambeau, who carried out the trade on Tuesday and was very uncomfortable with each other.

But get OK Placed? If it’s easy, the sport will not be addictive. Good putters make it sound innate. It may exist within you, it may not exist. The bad putter makes it look like the Holy Grail. It’s there, but you might spend your whole life looking for it.

It must be felt how unfair it is to be Corey Conners, one of the best humans on Earth, to provide a comprehensive golf shot for a predetermined goal (hundreds of yards). But putting a putter from 12 feet in his hand, his average. (On average among professionals, of course.) What was confusing at the time was the Friday of Conners, where he hit it, but led the court in a stroke: putter. He ranked fourth in the field in two rounds, better than the man who has long been the best champion in the world: Denny McCarthy.

McCarthy was so good at giving so long that other professionals sought advice from him. Ask him, it boils down to instinct. Read putters, read putters happening around them, and hope Feel This evil game appears in the right order. “It’s hard to teach,” McCarthy said. “You might have a perfect stroke, but if you don’t see the green correctly, or your intuition doesn’t have a good instinct, you might miss every putt even if your stroke has a perfect situation. I don’t have a perfect stroke. I’m looking very well, I have a picture and I believe in my instinct.”

In other words, letting the damn ball fall into the hole is the most invisible element of golf. But when McCarthy saw it, he saw it. He fought side by side in Burns. He noticed that even though Burns read green through Aimpoint (which was a notorious time effort), he did it much faster than others.

“He seems to be really committed to hitting putters with certain intentions, pace,” McCarthy said. “He’s watching very well.

McCarthy is a golfer, but he is a basketball enthusiast at heart. His long jump form is no surprise. He likes the Indiana Pacers’ races. They are fun, outrageously confrontation-like a golfer spanking and impressing everything. He believes that one of the keys to putting is an attitude similar to a shooting basket.

He said: “When the putter doesn’t go in, I try to release it more than try to be too cautious. Release it more and let it fly as worry-free as possible. Just keep shooting.

Burns played high school basketball, but he came from a football family and was raised by his parents who wanted to sit in the stands under the Friday night lights. In eighth grade, when he told his mom that she wanted to give up golf, she cut a deal: Play football for a year and we will make you the green of the backyard. complete! It never stimulated 15 feet at 15 feet like Oakmont, but this patch is the breeding ground waiting for this weekend. Starting with a one-shot lead, there are 36 decisive strokes.

Now you are curious that this is how men themselves see one of the most fickle things in sports.

“I practice a lot. I try to make it very simple,” Burns said. “I think if you look at the placement, the ball rolls on the ground. There are a lot of imperfect things in the grass on the grass. The ball can do a lot of different lines with speed, so if you try to make it too crazy, I just try to actually read it and put it on the speed and hope to put it into practice.”