1169: Previewing Shinnecock HIlls
6/10/20261 hr 40 min
Our content preview of the 2026 US Open begins with a look at the famed site of this year’s championship - Shinnecock Hills. We hear from Neil and Soly who recently played the course, plus a couple of interviews with John Bodenhamer and Jeff Hall from the USGA as we look ahead to the start of the tournament next Thursday. Support our Sponsors: Titleist Rhoback Arccos If you enjoyed this episode, consider joining The Nest: No Laying Up’s community of avid golfers. Nest members help us maintain our light commercial interruptions (3 minutes of ads per 90 minutes of content) and receive access to exclusive content, discounts in the pro shop, and an annual member gift. It’s a $90 annual membership, and you can sign up or learn more at nolayingup.com/join Subscribe to the No Laying Up Newsletter here: https://newsletter.nolayingup.com/ Subscribe to the No Laying Up Podcast channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@NoLayingUpPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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First 90 secondsTron Carter· Host0:00
[gentle music] Be the right club. Be the right club today. Yes.
Neil Schuster· Host0:10
[upbeat music] Johnny, that's better than most.
Tron Carter· Host0:15
How about him?
Neil Schuster· Host0:17
It is better than most. Better than most. [audience cheering] Expect anything different?
Chris Solomon· Host0:28
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the No Laying Up! podcast. Solly here. Got a fun preview for you for next week's US Open. We are gonna be talking in detail about Shinnecock Hills. Neil and I were just up there for media day, uh, in May. Uh, we did a couple interviews. You're gonna find an interview here with Jeff Hall and John Bodenhamer from the USGA. Uh, we're gonna break down every single hole, dive into a little bit of history. If you're listening to this in your car or in audio, uh, form in some way, check out the YouTube version if you get a chance. We got a lot of drone footage, uh, of the golf course, kind of to s- put- putting some visuals to a lot of the descriptions we're giving out there. We'll give you, hopefully, a great sense of what we're in for for next week's US Open, which is gonna be fantastic. Before we get to that, playing the right golf ball for your game is hugely important. A great example from this past week, J.T. Poston. J.T. switching the Pro V1x to the Pro V1x Left Dash at the Charles Schwab. He was starting to see spin rates creep up a little high in his irons and his wedges, and Left Dash lowered his full swing spin to an optimal window while giving him better performance in the wind. That came up huge at the Memorial, where he won in his second