2021 U.S. Open Film: Rahm Shines at Torrey Pines

Jon Rahm had already seen success at Torrey Pines during his young career. One week there in June, however, would launch him to the top of the golf world.

[GoldGuy-fxyh]

It’s about time these documentaries made their return. Well done!

[karrikarrikarri]

Last major I got to watch with my dad. Insane sunday. So many good memories.

[brxndon]

amazing film. I hopped the fence everyday during this to watch. At just 19 years old, this event was the best ive ever attended in my life. This event is what got me into golf. Nothing was better than hopping the fence with a 12 pack and following Bryson all week.

[thenumberquelve]

Richard Bland puts an interesting perspective on what it means to be a successful golfer.
Some want to get out there and chase records immediately, while some have been grinding it out for decades before reaching relevance at long last at the age of 48.
It must feel more gratifying to just have one good year after all of that time meandering around.

[DK-fkmx]

I would watch these kind of documentaries all day long! Too bad there is only like 10

[KittyCentral]

LOVE these docs. Its only January and it makes me want to get back out on the course already! Its only 3 more months.

[Shweaty]

dude 1 min in, golf and straight cut to champion making burgers! love it

[Niko-tdyj]

Great documentary but when is the 2020 us open film coming out?

[PeterB]

Crazy the amount of LIV players featuring in this.

[ScratchArkkitehti]

USGA docs better than the other majors....I'll take a player in his own words over anyone.

[sisport_]

He’s such a confident man ..he talks the talk and probably doesn’t really walk the walk he talks … he praises his ability more often than tiger woods lol & he ai t ever gonna be it do anything g near what tiger has done ✅ facts 💯

[seanyoyoboy]

I enjoy these documentaries but no need for the driving electronic music hahah, the open championship ones are top notch for anyone wondering

[johnathonklinedinst]

I was waiting for this one. What happened to making a 2020 one?

[japewaltzer]

A kid I played against last year played with rahm a long time ago. I now know rahm personally.

[HappyGolfer]

@36:41 What you don’t show is Jon Rahm getting a free drop away from what is really an Out of Bounds fence. All that is said is he nearly went OB. This was a completely wrong decision. The rule say there is no free drop from an OB fence. So in a way denied Louis Oosthuizen the win😳

[touristguy]

..."in-Teg-ral"?

Ok, Jim Nonce
Or is it Jim Nancy

[TheConza]

"i could hear his leg cracking" no, no you couldnt.

[americansantacruz]

There was a real US open last year?? 😐

[touristguy]

"For the U.S. Open, it's simple: The top 60 players on the leaderboard after 36 holes automatically make it through to the third round, including ties. The U.S. Open cut line is one of the most exclusive. Only the top 50 players make the cut at the Masters."

So the price of being one of those 60 guys who play their way into the Open from a local qualifier?
Is that the same # of guys will make the cut.
And virtually none of them will have played their way in from a local qualifier.
You're just there to help to sell tickets, thin the crowds around the leaders on Thursday & Friday, and keep everyone honest who got in with an exemption, even though half of those players won't make the cut either. You'll be lucky to make it into the top 60 of the 120 players who won't make the cut....you have virtually no chance of making the cut and playing the full 4 rounds.

Now *that* is some serious competition.

Now think of all that and all but a few of these guys,
criss-crossing the country hoping to walk 4 rounds that weekend,
living out of a suitcase,
making little more than beer-money, before Tiger.
If you wanted to be a pro athlete and make real money, then you had to play a real sport,
and to make money at a real sport you had to be a real athlete.
Golf is one of the few sports where the average college-grad can think of themselves as a real athlete.
Not to mention a skinny little kid like Tiger Woods was back when he first won the US Open. By 15 shots.
At the age of what, 21? His *second* US Open, at that?

Then he won the Masters by 12 strokes.

Then that skinny little kid had the old farts at Augusta National adding 500 yards to their course.
A course that was synonymous with "tradition".
And "Tiger-proofing" was born. I mean, could you make it any harder and still run a fair tournament?

Yeah. You could grow the rough up like a US Open course.

It wasn't easy to play into the US Open when Tiger won it.
Imagine how hard it is to play into the US Open now.

All just to get chewed-up and spit out until 75% of the players bitch about the course playing too hard and even Mickelson is threatening to skip it in the future. Which of course he wouldn't because he might actually win it and finally win his first major, and so the US Open kept making the fairways wider, the rough lower and the greens slower until Mickelson finally won the US Open and then everything was all right in the world of golf.

Not until some years after Rory won, by 8 strokes at Congressional, and Spieth won, in 2015, and even after Rocco Mediate almost won, in a playoff against Tiger playing on a broken leg and a bad knee. When I guess every PGA Tour star but Bob Costas had a US Open win, the golf gods finally smiled on "Phil the Thrill" and let him actually win one. After he was old enough to play on the Champions Tour. If you can believe that.

I mean that's the thing that most pro sports simply will never have: competitive tournaments where guys in their 50s still have a chance of winning against guys in their 20s straight out of high school, and vice-versa. It is a true American sport. You might get to be King of the Mountain in golf, but you're never going to *own* the mountain. At least not for long. These days nobody is good enough to win week after week like they own the fucking game and you have to have more going for you than just the ability to shoot low scores. Everyone on Tour can go low. And that is what makes it clear, very clear, who has Tour talent and who does not. In today's PGA Tour, 71 is not going to get it done. Not even in the US Open where it used to get you to the weekend, maybe even within a few strokes of the leaders....you have to be so good as to make an insanely-tough course look easy...you have to make birdies, even eagles, where most golfers would be happy to get pars. It's that magic which makes the game interesting.
I mean, seriously, what sucks worse than watching bad players play golf? How long would a Bad Golfers Association last? Even if they paid you to watch them play, would you do it? Hell, no. And so that is another thing that is so hard about trying to qualify into the US Open: you know that you aren't going to be good enough to do it and a whole lot of people will have to watch you fail. It takes balls the size of cantaloupes to ciimb over those ropes & play in front of those crowds and all of the players out there who like you know they have no chance. You all have to ask yourselves, "what the fuck are you doing out there trying to play into the US Open?" while, you know, trying to do just that. I would guess that it takes more than a little-bit of masochism, like Evel Knievel setting himself on fire before trying to jump the Snake River Canyon. You pretty-much have to be an idiot to even try it.

[ethansantucci]

Is final qualifying 36 holes in a single day? Or am I misunderstanding something.