U.S. Open venues change, but for the most part the demographic, feel, and overall style of tournament stay the same.
It’s extremely hard. This is obvious, but how do we use it to our advantage?
Even though the venues rotate, it has been shown to be predictive using just US Open venues as your sample when building projections.
It makes sense when you think about it logically. In the past 10 years favorites, and top ball strikers, have won (minus a few outliers).
Below is a U.S. Open model we built on our site taking data from U.S. Open venues ONLY. It includes strokes gained metrics, and other predictive stats for top finishers.