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David Dusek

2023 PGA Championship: Thick, high rough at Oak Hill Country Club calls for fairway woods and hybrids

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The consensus among players and caddies at the 2023 PGA Championship is that it’s really a U.S. Open. Oak Hill Country Club has undergone significant changes since Jason Dufner won the 2013 PGA Championship here, with scores of trees having been removed, but with firm fairways, thick rough and fast greens, it has the classic, old-school feel of a U.S. Open

“I look at a golf course like this and I think it’s quite similar to what we faced at Winged Foot in 2020 in terms of a long golf course, long rough and pretty narrow fairways,” said Rory McIlroy on Monday.

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