U.S. Open Practice Rounds Day One – What Have We Learned?

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Nothing. Nothing can be learned from the first practice rounds, or any practice rounds for that matter. We won't know what to expect this week until the U.S. Open kicks off early Thursday morning in San Francisco.

Olympic Club hasn't hosted the Open since 1998, when Lee Janzen won with a score of even par. Sports Illustrated gathered some writers and one anonymous pro to talk about the course and it sounds downright devious. Here's what the pro had to say about it.

How Olympic plays is more about the mowing patterns and the setup and where they put the bottom of the fairways. On some holes that won't matter because balls are not going to stay in the fairway. So many dogleg holes run the opposite direction of the way the fairways are pitched. The true art of Olympic is curving your ball into the slopes so you can maybe hold the fairways.

Maybe hold the fairways? We might not see anyone break par this week, and if they are under par heading into the final round, the smart money will be on them not finishing that way.