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Toughness the Key for Contenders at a Historically Difficult U.S. Open

Shinnecock has tested the psyches of the world's best this week at the U.S. Open. For the leaders, toughness has been the key.

Michael Rosenberg

Toughness the Key for Contenders at a Historically Difficult U.S. Open
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Michael Rosenberg
MICHAEL ROSENBERG

Michael Rosenberg is a senior writer for Sports Illustrated, covering any and all sports. He writes columns, profiles and investigative stories and has covered almost every major sporting event. He joined SI in 2012 after working at the Detroit Free Press for 13 years, eight of them as a columnist. Rosenberg is the author of "War As They Knew It: Woody Hayes, Bo Schembechler and America in a Time of Unrest." Several of his stories also have been published in collections of the year's best sportswriting. He is married with three children.