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'No guarantees' that Oakmont rough will cough up every golf ball it swallows

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U.S. Open Championship begins Thursday at Oakmont in Pennsylvania .

Tiger Woods lost a ball on his first hole of the 2003 Open Championship at Royal St. George’s .

Jackson Koivun , the standout Auburn junior who ascended to No. 1 in the World Amateur Golf Ranking on Wednesday , has already lost a golf ball to the rough.

The rough is thriving, in part because of a record May for rainfall in Allegheny County .

Oakmont ’s famous SWAT games usually produce a breakeven best-ball score of 69 to 70 .

It has been at least seven shots higher in recent months as the club has prepared for this U.S. Open .

McIlroy: “The person with the most patience and the best attitude this week is the one that's going to win”.

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