Shane Lowry of Ireland poses with the Claret Jug after winning the 148th Open Championship held on the Dunluce Links at Royal Portrush Golf Club on July 21, 2019 in Portrush, United Kingdom. (Photo by Andrew Redington/Getty Images)
Shane Lowry, winner of the 2019 British Open, admitted that had he not missed the cut in Phoenix, he wasn’t planning to visit LACC. But he had an extra day to kill so it made sense and he expects the course will feel a bit more familiar when he arrives in June.
“It was good. It was long,” he said. “The greens are bent, not poa, which is good. They are very nice to putt on, but very slopey, back to front on a lot of the greens and if you’re over the greens you’re in trouble.
“A lot of blind tee shots. You’re going to need to hit it straight because the fairways are wide but they camber off and there will be Bermuda rough, where the ball sits down. But a short hitter that hits every fairway isn’t necessarily going to do better than a long hitter in the rough. I don’t know if it suits anybody other than you’re going to need your A-game. First impressions, I don’t think the scoring will be very good there. But when we get back in June, it will probably be fast and firm.
“You get to a U.S. Open you need to drive it well, your irons need to be precise, short game has to be tidy, you need all of that and a really good thinking between your ears.”
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