Your browser does not support iframes. After enduring the difficulty of Saturday at The Players Championship and a slightly less demanding version of TPC Sawgrass on Sunday, Rory McIlroy seemed downright giddy to get out of northeast Florida. …and is excited to play on the hardest golf course on the planet? The U.S. Open is […]
USGA’s Davis shares two regrets about Chambers Bay
July 11, 2015 by
Though the golf world got a classic at last month’s U.S. Open, host Chambers Bay and the USGA, which puts on the championship, came under fire for myriad issues for players and fans alike. USGA executive director Mike Davis opened up on Friday, offering some candor about a pair of regrets about how his organization […]
Chambers Bay’s Lone Fir is a symbol of survival
June 18, 2015 by
UNIVERSITY PLACE, Wash. — Find your way out of the former gravel pit that is now U.S. Open host Chambers Bay and you’ll find yourself shrouded in the shade of a million conifers. They’re everywhere. You can’t miss them. But if you look around the Puget Sound-adjacent course, you’ll find just one: the Lone Fir. […]
Under less pressure, McIlroy believes he can shine at Chambers
June 17, 2015 by
UNIVERSITY PLACE, Wash. — There doesn’t seem to be a whole lot of buzz about world No. 1 Rory McIlroy this week. You could almost say he’s flying under the radar, and that’s perfectly fine with the Northern Irishman. “There’s not as much attention or much hype,” McIlroy said Tuesday. “I can get here and […]
How Chambers Bay fulfilled its destiny and landed the U.S. Open
June 16, 2015 by
UNIVERSITY PLACE, Wash. — Chambers Bay was born to host the U.S. Open. The dream, the concept of holding an Open here was why the idea of turning an exhausted, century-old gravel pit into a quirky, championship-caliber course was conceived over a decade ago. This week, eight years after this ambitious project opened its doors […]
Phil Mickelson gets his first look at U.S. Open host Chambers Bay
May 30, 2015 by
Earlier this month, USGA executive director Mike Davis warned that the 2015 U.S. Open champion would be the player that gets as much exposure as possible to unfamiliar host Chambers Bay, near Tacoma, Wash. Davis took a lot of flak for saying a playing would need at least 10 rounds at property to win. Well, […]
