THE US OPEN will take place at Chambers Bay in Washington for the very first time this week.
It may well be the last.
As far back as April, golfers were complaining about the course with Ryan Palmer saying that, “as far as the greens are concerned, this is not a Championship golf course.”
Ian Poulter went even further:
While US Open venues are traditionally designed to be tough — thin fairways, long rough and rock hard greens are standard — it seems the organisers of this year’s event may have gone too far.
We can’t imagine too many pros will be happy putting on this, for example:
The condition of the greens is reminiscent of the 2004 US Open at Shinnecock Hills where only two players finished under par and the seventh green was in such a poor state that players struggled to keep the ball on the putting surface, even when chipping from close range.