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U.S. Open champion will need intestinal fortitude at Torrey Pines

By Ron Sirak
Golf World

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

SAN DIEGO -- The U.S Open might not be the hardest major championship to win -- it does produce its fair share of fluke winners -- but it is the hardest of the major championships. There is no other tournament that punishes mistakes as severely as the U.S. Open, and there is no other competition that wears on the will of the competitors as relentlessly as this torture test devised by the U.S. Golf Association. And those who say the USGA takes the fun out of golf by taking birdies out of the Op ...

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