Woods, Mickelson, Spieth and Others: How Chambers Bay Will Play for U.S. Open

By Kathy Bissell
at Internationaled.org

Published: June 11, 2015

The county-owned Chambers Bay Golf Club, site of the U.S. Open, sits on what was once the largest sand and gravel operation in the country. No more.

What remains from those days are the concrete structures, like a modern-day Stonehenge or the ruins of an abandoned, ancient Greek town. Today, picturesque golf holes crawl across the undulating landscape, around and through the stone-like relics, ready to test contestants at this year's U.S. Open.

Four competitors for the U.S. Open have what might be considered an edge, if there is such a thing before a championship like this. They are Ryan Moore, who is from the Seattle area; Michael Putnam, whose father lives close enough to walk to the course; Jordan Spieth and Patrick Reed, both of whom played the course in the U.S. Amateur in 2012.

Two contestants, Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson, have seen the course and played practice rounds.

Speith and Reed still remember their experiences at the U.S. Amateur.

"It's going to be a lot of speed control. I think it's going to be a lot of judging the undulation. It's going to be different short-game shots, almost like you're playing an Open Championship," Spieth said. "You need to learn whether you're going to putt it off of these slopes. It's going to be really tight and kind of dry, so it's going to be—you are going to need to practice flying some ridges with spin, if you have a hybrid shot."

"If it blows and it's a little cool out there, it's going to be a tough golf course," Reed said. "I remember in stroke play, the golf course was getable. It was a little warmer; there wasn't too much wind. And then we had a cold front move in, and it was a little chilly, rainy and blowing a little bit. It turned out to be a really tough golf course."

He said the course is not particularly spectator friendly, but that is not a secret. The USGA has severely limited the number of tickets sold a...

Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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