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The US Open doesn’t tee off until next Thursday, but there are already complaints over the Pebble Beach course.

Patrick Cantlay posted a video on Instagram Thursday, showing a plethora of overgrown grass just next to a green.

“Alright here we are at the ninth [hole] at Pebble Beach,” Cantlay said. “Getting a little practice in for the US Open. We’re practicing this right pin on the ninth.”

Cantlay then walks over to the edge of the green.

“We take one, two… seven or eight paces and we’re in grass where you can’t even find your golf ball,” he said. “You got no idea where it is… it’s down in here pretty deep. Here, show them that — can’t see the golf ball. We’re gonna try and get it out. It’s going straight to the bottom.”

Cantlay’s cameraman/caddie tosses multiple balls into the overgrown grass, showing them hidden in the rough. He then, somewhat crudely, attempts to hit the ball out of the grass and onto the green.

US Open courses are notoriously difficult, an issue Phil Mickelson railed against last week, saying the USGA doesn’t “know how to control themselves” when it comes to the set up. It would appear to be status quo at Pebble Beach.

Cantlay will look to continue his recent form in California, coming off a third place finish at the PGA Championship and a win at The Memorial.

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