Leona Maguire is aiming to follow in Graeme McDowell’s footsteps and win her first Major at the US Open at Pebble Beach this week.
The Cavan woman has also been taking aboard advice from the 2010 US Open winner about navigating the small greens of the famed California course.
“I think course management is huge out here,” Maguire said. “G-Mac talked about hitting to certain sections on greens and things like that, a lot of strategy. He’s not the longest hitter, nor am I, so I think strategy is key when you come to a place like this.”
She said her caddie Dermot Byrne, a former caddie of Shane Lowry, also had experience on the course and his own “strategies and theories” on how to attack the course.
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