Thick Greens to Test Players at U.S. Open (AP)

[Newsman]

AP - Agronomists call the grass Tifway II Bermuda. Those playing this week at the U.S. Open will probably refer to it in less formal terms. The green, spongy rough is growing quite well, thank you, this week at Pinehurst No. 2, giving any shot that lands even an inch off the narrow fairways the prospect of becoming a major reclamation project.

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