Chris Gotterup tells The Post what it would mean to win US Open and how hes preparing for hard course
Before taking on the challenge of Shinnecock Hills at this week’s U.S.Open, Little Falls, N.J., native and Rutgers product Chris Gotterup sat down for some Q&A with The Post’s Steve Serby. Q: What would it mean to you to win this U.S.
Open?A: You just want to build yourself to be a major championship player.Obviously, if I could get it done this week at a local U.S.
Open, it would be even more meaningful.But at the same time, there’s not pressure on myself to get it done.
I just hope that I can give myself a chance coming down the back nine.The U.S.
Open has always been one of my favorite tournaments, and hopefully one day I can hoist that trophy.But I’m gonna continue to just do what I’m doing and try to keep my head down and work hard, and then we’ll see where that takes me.Q: Can you win it?A: I think if I play how I like to think I can, I think I can get it done and I hope to get it done.
But I’m not gonna get ahead of myself as well — [I] haven’t hit a shot yet, so … You just have to keep putting yourself there, and hopefully I do that.Q: What are the chances if you did win it you would cry afterward?A: A hundred percent.Q: Why do you get so emotional after wins?A:.I don’t know.
… I do know but I don’t know.I’m not an emotional guy.
I don’t really get choked up or anything.I think it’s just like your brain just goes back to all these moments, the tough times, all so quickly, and the whole day you’re suppressing all those emotions to try to get it done.
And then you can finally let it all out and it all just kind of hits you at once, and then you have Amanda [Balionis, CBS golf reporter] or whoever is asking me these questions that are just trying to make you cry.It’s a lot of emotions at once.
You did it, you reached the moment you’ve been working so hard for that week in your life.I don’t know why I cry, but you just think about all the people that have helped you, the sacrifice your parents made, your gir...