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U.S. Open roundtable: Tough courses, favorites, betting strategies

The U.S. Open is upon us! Time for another golf roundtable, featuring Yahoo Sports senior golf writer Jay Busbee and Yahoo Sports fantasy impresario Scott Pianowski. Topics today: the ultra-tough course setup, one-time major winners, and ways to make some coin. Now on the tee ...

Busbee: Scott, like a high school movie bully waiting out on the playground to beat up the nerd, the US Open looms dead ahead, cracking its knuckles in gleeful anticipation of pushing around the best golfers in the world. If you remember all the way back to last season — or three weeks ago, whichever — we saw Olympia Fields pummel everyone, with only five players finishing under par.