Golfworld: How 'the Course Setup at Winged Foot Played Into the Bombers' Hands'

BRYSON DECHAMBEAU IS NOW A BULKY GUY. But the new U.S. Open champion is a smart guy, too. This isn't a recent development. He figured out a few things before blasting his first tee shot at Winged Foot last Thursday.

Golfworld highlighted this and other points in its "18 Parting Thoughts From a Wild Week at Winged Foot."

Here's one of their takeaways:

2. In hindsight, the course setup at Winged Foot played into the bombers' hands. Length is always an advantage, and there's a temptation to combat it by making the fairways super narrow and the rough super long. The problem is, when fairways are that narrow, everyone's going to miss their share. The field only hit 39.6 percent of fairways this…