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<\/p>\nRUSH: Oh, you want me to explain what Phil Mickelson did? Okay. I\u2019m looking… By the way… Well, you know, that\u2019s actually a good… That is a great example of precisely what I\u2019m trying to convey here! Okay. U.S. Open, Shinnecock Hills over the weekend. By the way, congratulations to Brooks Koepka. Brooks Koepka is… He\u2019s the champion. He\u2019s from West Palm Beach. He\u2019s 28 years old. The guy is it a stud. His parents… His dad, Bob, they\u2019re all… Their family is from around here.<\/p>\n
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He was at Florida State. He won all kinds of championships as a college amateur. Second U.S. Open in a row. That\u2019s only been done seven or eight times since the late 1800s. The last to do it was Curtis Strange in 1988-\u201989. Brooks lives up in Jupiter now where a lot of pro golfers live. Rickie Fowler, a bunch of them are up there. He\u2019s just a great, great, great guy, and I wanted to mention that. But the story with Mickelson. It happened Saturday, and the USGA runs the U.S. Open, the United States Golf Association, and they\u2019re not associated with any particular club.<\/p>\n
They go in and they rent the club and they take it over for like four years before the Open. They\u2019re in charge of setting it up — the pin placements, the length of the grass, how fast the greens are running — and the USGA claims to want to have a tournament, the U.S. Open, that “identifies” (that\u2019s their word) the absolute best golfer of those four days, with the toughest reasonable test that can be designed. They say that their objective is for the champion to shoot par but not below it.<\/p>\n
Well, last year, Koepka won the U.S. Open at their new course outside Milwaukee at 16 under. So the USGA said, “We\u2019re not doin\u2019 that again.” Most U.S. Open champions maybe win it with two under. Five under is absolute lowest that they want you to go. Normally the winner is over par. Brooks Koepka is the only player that shot even par; he was the champion. On Saturday, on Saturday… (chuckling) On Saturday, they lost control of some of the greens because of the pin placements, particularly on 13 and 15.<\/p>\n