24.7
The percentage of players who hit the 18th green in regulation during the tournament. The brutally difficult 521-yard par-four played as the hardest on the course (the stroke average was 4.7) and yielded precisely zero birdies over the weekend, which is almost unheard of in professional golf.
54
Both Phil Mickelson and Paul Casey hit this many greens (out of 72), the highest number of the field. Mickelson wound up two shots behind Justin Rose for his sixth runner-up finish at the US Open. Casey, in contrast, could do no better than a tie for 45th, illustrating the Englishman’s poor performance on the Merion greens.
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