It’s that time of year again. The best players in the world are getting in last minute practice for the start of the US Open at Congressional on Thursday.
The last 2 US Opens have produced champions who weren’t picked by many pundits to win. There are probably 50 players with a reasonable chance this week. So instead of picking who I think it most likely to win, I’m picking 5 “under-the-radar” players that I think could win this week.
Just a month before he turns 40, and in his 355th start, Harrison Frazar has finally broken through on the PGA Tour. He beat Robert Karlsson in a sudden death playoff on the 3rd hole.
It’s always nice to see a “journeyman” pro finally break through – especially a fellow Texan. But this victory was especially interesting because of a column Frazar wrote for Golf Magazine back in March.
In the piece Frazar talks about the fact that he’d spent 13 years on tour and done very well financially, but he’d gotten to a point where he was ready to walk away from the game after this season in order to spend more time with his young family.
