U.S. Open: Tiger Woods Calls Winged Foot Golf Club One of the Hardest Courses

The U.S. Open begins on Thursday and Tiger Woods is opening up about the difficulty of the course.

The U.S. Open returns to the Winged Foot for the first time since 2006, and Woods didn’t hesitate to grade its sheer difficulty.

When asked about the course, the three-time U.S. Open champion told the Golf Channel, "The golf course is going to be hard, It depends on how difficult they want to set up these pins to give us a chance at it. But with the forecast, it's going to be difficult no matter what."

Winged Foot, which is a par-70 with only two par-5s, presents a tall challenge this weekend.

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