You can't go over them, and you can't go through them. You will be in them, but it wouldn’t be Sahalee Country Club without them.
It’s the trees – mature, lush, resplendent. They’ll be in evidence and almost certainly in play when the U.S. Senior Open goes to Sahalee, July 26 to Aug. 1.
The trees. Fred Funk, the defending Senior Open champion, remembers the trees from the PGA Championship at Sahalee in 1998.
“You’ve got to be in the fairway,” Funk said via Skype at a recent news conference. “The enormity of the trees, just the scale of them, it’s claustrophobic on some holes. You’ve just got to avoid them.”
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