EIGHT South Africans will make an assault on the 113th US Open title being played at the Merion Golf Club in Pennsylvania on Thursday, on one of the shortest Major courses in the past two decades.Ernie Els, the reigning Open champion and two-time US Open winner, will lead the South African charge but it is Charl Schwartzel who could be South Africa’s best hope of winning the season’s second Major.Schwartzel, the 2011 Masters champion, has been consistently near the top of leader boards on the US Tour in the past month but has yet to win a title since Augusta, two years ago. He finished third at the Byron Nelson and tied eighth at the Memorial two weeks ago, where a third-round 76 cost him victory. But another win in the US cannot be far off for the talented player.Schwartzel is 24th on the greens-in-regulation boards on Tour, an important statistic at the US Open. However, he lies only 94th in fairways hit, a number he will have to improve with the tight layout and penal rough at Me...
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