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Power Rankings: 124th U.S. Open

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OK, it’s finally time to identify the best golfer. As if! With enduring respect for the late Sandy Tatum, we already know who it is. He would, too.

As chairman of the competition committee for the U.S. Open, it was Tatum who coined the famous phrase concerning the setup for the U.S. Open at Winged Foot Country Club 50 years ago this week. Hale Irwin survived best at, yikes, 7-over 287, and then added victories in the major in 1979 and 1990. The best golfer was identified and then validated.

The U.S. Open this week is staging its 124th edition. Pinehurst Resort & Country Club’s No. 2 Course hosts for the fourth time. While it’s highly unlikely that the winner will be over par at its conclusion, no doubt that he truly will feel like the best has been identified.

Scroll or swipe past the projected contenders for what’s in store for the field of 156, what’s different at Pinehurst since it last hosted 2014 and more.

As if you needed the resolution that the opening tease points directly at Scottie Scheffler. The five-time PGA TOUR winner in the last three months sits at No. 1 in the FedExCup and the Official World Golf Ranking. His lead of 2,171.417 points over Xander Schauffele in the former would rank third overall, while his margin of 7.6798 points (also) over Schauffele in the latter would slot fourth. In other words, half-a-Scheffler still is a world-beater.

If that isn’t extreme enough, try Pinehurst No. 2 on for size. The stock par 70 can stretch to 7,548 yards, so there’s that. A cursory analysis of how it tested 10 years ago suggests that it’s entirely a second-shot track. After all, the field averaged 70.02 percent in splitting fairways. That’s 9.8 (of 14) per golfer per round, which is absurd execution. But how many will take a back seat to where? Read on.

Pinehurst also checked in as third-most challenging in hitting greens in regulation throughout the 2013-14 season at just 56.51 percent (10.17 average per golfer per round). And off that, things really got tough.

The course was hardest in converting GIR into par breakers (2.1 of the 10.17 GIR), putts per GIR (1.884) and scrambling (a click under 50 percent). It also was third-stingiest in avoiding three-putts no matter when the ball stuck on the perched greens. (Since the last time that Pinehurst hosted, ShotLink has been added to measure every stroke at every U.S. Open, so more granular data will be available this week.)

What that means for the field is to embrace what the course gives. Merely finding the short grass will be considered a statistical push relative to others. Instead, positioning on approach and precision into targets that play smaller than their square footage because of runoffs in almost all directions are paramount. Course management, patience and grit are invaluable intangibles. The 36-hole cut is low 60 and ties.

As of midday Monday, 29 golfers in this week’s field have scar tissue from 2014 when the course averaged 73.076; well, all but Martin Kaymer who prevailed by eight strokes at 9-under 271. He genuinely could be accused of absurd execution. After an opening 65 to lead by three, his margin grew to six at the midpoint. It shrunk to five after the third round but he was not challenged to convert the wire-to-wire title.

Since then, the bentgrass greens have been replaced by Ultradwarf Bermudagrass. That alone is significant but it’s also historic because it’s the first time that the tournament will be played on this strain. Flanking the welcoming fairways is native area teeming with wiregrass, which up close is reminiscent of the hair on a troll pencil topper. Only one of those two things is fun. Bunkers also abound and add to the striking visuals of the property.

The U.S. Amateur was held at Pinehurst No. 2 in 2019. Fifteen participants of that competition qualified this week, 10 of whom advanced to the match-play component, so they have a head start on how the new putting surfaces will test.

As it was five years ago, the annual top-level event for amateurs in the United States is held in August. We’re not there yet but it will feel like it at times this week. Daytime highs are expected to touch 90 degrees every day. It’ll climb higher than that on Friday and Saturday. Despite a risk for it on the weekend, rain would be a surprise at any point and early indications suggest that the wind won’t be much of a nuisance. So, Pinehurst is poised to present its best self. (Wednesday’s Golfbet Insider will include a revisit of the weather.)

In addition to forever being known as the winner of the 2024 U.S. Open, he will be exempt into the next 10 editions of the major and the next five years of the other three. He’ll also be eligible for a PGA TOUR membership exemption through 2029.

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The European Central Bank has cut interest rates for the first time in almost five years, but warned future reductions would depend on price pressures easing further.

Thursday’s quarter-point cut to 3.75 per cent, which has not yet been replicated by central banks in the US and UK, represented a milestone in the fight against inflation after the biggest surge in prices for a generation.

ECB president Christine Lagarde said there was a “strong likelihood” the decision marked the beginning of “dialling back” rates from their all-time high. But she added further moves would “depend on the data that we receive”.

Several members of the ECB’s governing council told the Financial Times after Thursday’s decision that another rate cut at its next meeting in July seemed unlikely because of recent rises in inflation and wage growth.

After the announcement, traders in swaps markets lowered their bets on a second cut by September to close to 60 per cent, down from 70 per cent.

The ECB cautioned it was “not pre-committing to a particular rate path” and warned it expected inflation to stay above its 2 per cent target until the final quarter of 2025.

“It looks like they’ve given themselves a bit more wiggle room for further caution, in case the data do not continue to come in as benign as they anticipate,” said Katharine Neiss, a former Bank of England economist now at investor PGIM Fixed Income.

The bank said it was cutting rates in response to a more than 2.5 percentage point fall in Eurozone inflation since its last rate increase in September 2023.

“There was widespread agreement that we are on track to bring inflation down to our target, and confidence is growing in our forecasts that should allow us to keep bringing rates down,” said one council member.

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Lagarde said the ECB had decided to cut “because overall our confidence in the path ahead . . . has been increasing [in] the past few months”, adding that the “reliability of our forecasts” had risen markedly in recent quarters.

Raising its predictions for this year and next, the ECB said inflation would average 2.5 per cent in 2024, 2.2 per cent in 2025 and 1.9 per cent in 2026.

One governor, Robert Holzmann, the hawkish head of the Austrian central bank, dissented from the decision to cut rates.

“Data-based decisions should be data-based decisions,” Holzmann told the FT after Thursday’s meeting.

Another ECB rate-setter said Holzmann had argued a cut was inconsistent with the recent rises in inflation and wage growth in the Eurozone.

Lagarde forecast wage growth would slow and worker productivity would improve over the year, helping to ease labour cost pressures for companies.

Dirk Schumacher, a former ECB economist now at French bank Natixis, said: “I think the baseline for them is still further cuts. But wage growth moderating is needed for that.”

Data released last week showed Eurozone inflation accelerated for the first time this year to 2.6 per cent in May, driven by a surge in the labour-intensive services sector, having slowed from a peak above 10 per cent in 2022.

Negotiated wage growth in the bloc accelerated close to a record high of 4.7 per cent in the first quarter.

The euro was 0.1 per cent higher at $1.0874 after Lagarde spoke.

Interest rate-sensitive two-year German Bund yields — a benchmark for the Eurozone — edged higher to 3.02 per cent, up 0.05 percentage points on the day.

Thursday’s move came a day after a similar rate cut by the Bank of Canada and follows earlier decisions to ease monetary policy by central banks in Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Switzerland and Sweden this year.

By contrast, the US Federal Reserve is expected to keep rates on hold next week at a 23-year high range of 5.25 per cent to 5.5 per cent after price pressures in the world’s biggest economy proved more stubborn than expected.

The Bank of England is also considered unlikely to lower its bank rate from a 16-year high of 5.25 per cent when it meets on June 20.

The ECB lifted its growth forecast for this year from 0.6 per cent to 0.9 per cent. It expects 1.4 per cent growth next year and 1.6 per cent in 2026.

Additional reporting by Mary McDougall in London

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Tee times for Upper Deck Golf on sale June 13

Standard & vip tee times available for three-day event july 19 – 21.

ST. LOUIS, Mo., June 12, 2024 – Tee time bookings for the Upper Deck Golf event inside Busch Stadium will go on sale to the public on Thursday, June 13 at 11 AM CT. This year will mark the first time Upper Deck Golf’s event will be held at Busch Stadium during the summer, after previous events were held at the ballpark in November 2022 and 2023. Tickets can be purchased at cardinals.com/upperdeck .

Upper Deck Golf will offer standard and VIP tee times for the three-day event, with tee times available to be booked as early as 7AM on each of the three dates and as late as 9PM on Friday—Saturday and 7PM on Sunday. Tee times will be offered in two to 12 player increments with prices starting at $79.99 per person. VIP tee times, starting at $139.99, offer a more premium experience for fans looking to enjoy additional perks at the event including free entry into driving, chipping, and putting challenges and complimentary food and beverage items.

New features for 2024 include a more interactive field with LED birdie rings on each hole that will light up anytime a golfer gets a birdie by landing on the green. Golfers will also have the option to swing brand new Cleveland Zipcore Irons and RTX Wedges at each hole location from Upper Deck’s exclusive equipment partner Cleveland Golf. Participation is limited to individuals ages 8 and above.

Tee times are limited and are expected to sell out quickly. For more information or to book a tee time, visit cardinals.com/upperdeck .