{"id":741292,"date":"2026-06-17T01:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T01:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/741292\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T01:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T01:01:07","slug":"what-score-indicates-a-tough-test-in-the-us-open-the-modern-standard-suggests-under-par","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/741292\/","title":{"rendered":"What score indicates a tough test in the US Open? The modern standard suggests under par"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"NVWFQ3D2PZGAPALQUWITITEUJU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. \u2014 Even at <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/us-open-shinnecock-hills-practice-thomas-mcilroy-dcf3bb1048c1e43aad24a74c9bc2fb87\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shinnecock Hills<\/a> , one of America\u2019s toughest courses preparing to host golf\u2019s toughest test, one has to wonder what Arnold Palmer might say about winning a <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/us-open-shinnecock-hills-major-38e3031856c31dc52fbf6c390f55b9d0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Open<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"KWBJIWVPXVBFDLVCN2LCGGKU3I\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">It was in 1960 at Cherry Hills when Palmer was seven shots behind going into the final round. Before heading to the first tee, where the King famously drove the first green, he turned to Bob Drum of the Pittsburgh Press and said: \u201cWhat if I shoot 65? Doesn\u2019t 280 always win the Open?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. \u2014 Even at Shinnecock Hills , one of America\u2019s toughest courses preparing to host golf\u2019s toughest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":741293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,357506,755,85,357507],"class_list":["post-741292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-glf-on-the-fringe-us-open","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-u-s-open-mens-golf-championships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/741293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}