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Players happy to leave Oakmont's brutal conditions

By Jason Sobel
ESPN.com

Wednesday, June 20, 2007

CROMWELL, Conn. -- Rich Beem played two rounds at last week's U.S. Open, the second of which took him 85 strokes to complete, including 40 on the vaunted greens at Oakmont Country Club. So ask the 2002 PGA Championship winner whether conditions at this week's Travelers Championship will be any easier, and all he can do is laugh. "It's night and day," Beem said. "You can't even compare 'em." He is one of 52 players saying goodbye and good riddance to the 5-inch rough, ultrafast greens and astr ...

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