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Jaime Diaz

πŸ‘€ Speaker
890 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
2026 U.S. Open Preview with Jaime Diaz

So I think the setup now.

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
2026 U.S. Open Preview with Jaime Diaz

at all these majors, it's one of the greatest challenges in the game to get it right.

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
2026 U.S. Open Preview with Jaime Diaz

For example, I thought at Aronamink, I thought they actually went too far.

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
2026 U.S. Open Preview with Jaime Diaz

And it wasn't terrible.

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
2026 U.S. Open Preview with Jaime Diaz

It was interesting.

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
2026 U.S. Open Preview with Jaime Diaz

But it got to the point where nobody could really hit it close because of the hole positions and because of the firmness.

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
2026 U.S. Open Preview with Jaime Diaz

And, yeah, they were hitting wedges a lot of the time because the course wasn't that long.

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
2026 U.S. Open Preview with Jaime Diaz

But it still ended up with everybody having 20-footers for birdies or 30-footers.

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
2026 U.S. Open Preview with Jaime Diaz

And, you know, it was –

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
2026 U.S. Open Preview with Jaime Diaz

That's why the leaderboard got so bunched and it was so hard to separate.

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
2026 U.S. Open Preview with Jaime Diaz

Having said that, Aaron Rye, he played the best coming in and really was a definitive victory.

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
2026 U.S. Open Preview with Jaime Diaz

But I'm just saying up to that point, it was really like, wow, how do you show your superiority on this kind of setup?

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
2026 U.S. Open Preview with Jaime Diaz

And, you know, the PGA, not to pick on them, in the past, they've been the ones that were kind of U.S.

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
2026 U.S. Open Preview with Jaime Diaz

open light and might have been considered too acquiescent to the players.

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
2026 U.S. Open Preview with Jaime Diaz

I thought they wanted to get away from that at Ironman because it looked like early in the week it was going to be wet, number one.

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
2026 U.S. Open Preview with Jaime Diaz

And number two, the golf course wasn't that long.

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
2026 U.S. Open Preview with Jaime Diaz

It was like, man, we could have a 17-under deal here.

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
2026 U.S. Open Preview with Jaime Diaz

Who knows?

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
2026 U.S. Open Preview with Jaime Diaz

And so Kerry Hayes has always been pretty conservative.

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
2026 U.S. Open Preview with Jaime Diaz

He went kind of aggressively.