Friday at the 2011 US Amateur Championship

Today we followed three matches in the US Amateur Championship at Erin Hills: Blake Biddle vs. Kelly Kraft, Max Buckley vs. Patrick Cantlay and Peter Uihlein vs. Jordan Russell. Erin Hills will be the site of the 2017 US Open. It reminded me of another Wisconsin course, Wild Rock in Wisconsin Dells, designed by the same architects (Hurdzan-Fry), only more difficult. Wild Rock has wide open driving areas with the amount of trouble increasing as you get closer to the green. The driving areas at Erin Hills are not as open (although they do have the signature marker bunkers in the middle of some fairways) but the trouble around the greens is similar (traps surrounded by fescue grass, multi-tiered greens, some quite small).

Here, without comment, are some video images from the day.