Sunday’s final round of the U.S. Open at Winged Foot in Mamaroneck, N.Y., will challenge golfers with narrow fairways, fast greens and variable winds. But players will escape perhaps the toughest obstacle of a New York major: New York fans.
“Everything is exaggerated with people,” said Xander Schauffele, who finished Saturday tied for fourth, at even par. “People yelling, there's more noise, there's more things. You have to try and focus more. Right now it's so quiet, it's eerie, it's weird. It's not like anything anyone has experienced. It's hard to feed off of certain things. When you go birdie-eagle or something, usually you kind of ride a wave and you can usually focus a little more and get in a zone, and right now it's sort of like a college tournament, where you're doing your own thing.