A Major lift for Tommy
you had no chance. But that’s part of golf. You’ve got to understand where to leave it. Make sure you’re always leaving yourself an uphill putt. “It did get very difficult. There wasn’t much grass on the greens. I think everyone will say that. And it did get very tough. It was very borderline. “Depending on the gust of wind, sometimes you felt it maybe wasn’t fair. Whatever. I got this thing, so I don’t care. “Everybody’s got to play the same golf course. You’ve got to keep going, keep plugging away, and don’t get caught up in all the talk and just keep focused on what you’re doing. “You can’t get away from it and start being negative. “I feel gets some like it negative thoughts going. If you start complaining, you’re looking for excuses. I’m not really one to make excuses.”
The US Open is supposed to be the hardest tournament in the world. Well done to Shinnecock for delivering in spades on that front.
Justin Rose, 10th in the final shake-up, summed it up perfectly. “We’ve all been asking for a real US Open again. I guess we got one this week.” TOMMY FLEETWOOD was glass half-full as he reflected on his runner-up finish at the US Open.
“It’s easy to look at it and think I was one shy and be disappointed, but there’s so many positives and so much you can take from it and learn from it,” said Fleetwood, 27, who equalled the US Open record of 63 in the final round to finish two over.
“This is my best result in a Major yet so now there’s only one thing I can do from here and that’s win one. In the position I’m in, performing in them a little bit more, at some point I’ll start to look and think, ‘I can win these Majors’. And I’ll start to find a way to try to win them.
“I’ve got nothing but respect for how well Brooks Koepka did, just to hole the putts at the right time. He kept it together.
“It wasn’t great for me, but it was great as a golfer to watch how he did it and watch how he closed it out.” IAN POULTER is becoming the new Colin Montgomerie as a magnet for fan abuse in the United States.
Englishman Poulter, who finished 25th at the US Open, complained of being barracked by the New York crowds. He believes that, like Montgomerie, he was targeted because of his Ryder Cup heroics for Europe.
“Not one American would be treated like that at the Open Championship,” said Poulter.