Ask any of the players who took part in the US Open, and they’ll tell you it was one of the toughest in living memory, with the course causing carnage throughout the field at Chambers Bay in Washington State.
While the US Masters was a fairly tame affair earlier in the year, predictions of docile weather during the upcoming British Open have not come to fruition.
The 144th edition of the Open is set to be a wet and cold affair, with locals suggesting that it may be the toughest conditions faced by the field in living memory.
It’s bad news for those taking part, many of whom will still be licking their wounds following a crushing US Open course tore a hole in many a'campaign over its four rounds.
However, one man may thrive in the conditions given he has performed through some of the most trying weather the golfing world could have possibly thrown at him over the past 12 months.
Jordan Spieth stormed home at Chambers Bay, finishing the Championship one stroke ahead of countryman Dustin Johnson to take the title.
Spieth’s victory at the US Open made it two-from-two in the major tournaments in 2015, after claiming The Masters earlier in the year.
The 21-year-old is looking for an unprecedented calendar grand-slam and given his form, will fancy his chances after claiming the John Deere Classic just one week ago.
His odds of claiming the prize have been buoyed given world number one Rory McIlroy has withdrawn from the event due to injury.
Spieth also has experience in the apocalyptic conditions, shooting a 63 in gale force winds at the Australian Golf Club to claim the Australian Open in Sydney earlier this year.
He doesn’t however, seem overly concerned with the imminently horrendous conditions that are being predicted.
“It’s fun,” Spieth said.
“We come over here because we want to embrace the opportunity of handling these conditions.
“Going into it, you have to be as positive as you can be.
“Friday looks like it’s going to be brutal for everybody.”
Are we going to see a calendar grand slam in the Masters Era for the first time ever? It’s unlikely any man is going to stop the young Texan, but Scotland’s weather is a different beast entirely.