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[QUOTE="jncuse, post: 5099427, member: 1969"]
Here is the full broadcast of the 2005 US Open.

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The course was very different looking than it is now.   And it was considered one of the hardest setups of the US Open at the time based on what I heard on a snippet as I browsed through points of the coverage.

As noted above the big changes since then:
1) Rough area around fairways is more of what we normally see in traditional tree lined courses.    And for the US Open it would be the consistent long green stuff.
2) Seems like there is much more shaved areas around the green.

They could probably make the course more difficult in 2005 than now for 2 reasons.
1) Long normal grass rough will give you more tougher and more punitive lies on "average: than what we see now.    Now we get some punishing lies in the rough, but there are also a number of areas where you can recover in a less punitive manner.

2) It was easier to shrink the fairway back in 2005 in anticipation of a US Open.   You just had to grow out the grass to shrink the fairway,   Now the fairway size is the fairway size, as it is determined by the rough area which is tough to manipulate.

I sort of prefer the visuals of what we see now - its more unique than what we normally see.
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