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Anyone seen and/or played it?  Just from TV, it looks to me like a slightly flatter version of Whistling Straits- which I don't like as a major host.  If you're going to build a links style course you can't put those scrub areas in, thus taking the bump and run out of play.  I guess if the wind is calm, it might work.  It is undeniably beautiful.

Love the look of Chambers Bay......Gonna be a good ride for the next 4 days. Hard and fast and huge greens. American golfers have been spoiled with green and soft courses. Hope 10 over wins the thing.

Wish they would build more courses here like this.

I haven't seen the forecast, but over any given four day period in Tacoma, you're bound to get some rain.  Maybe a LOT of rain.  So it remains to be seen if the course will stay fast.  Between Chambers Bay, St. Andrews, and Whistling Straits, the next three majors are going to give me my fill of links golf. 

I just hope that the USGA doesn't overcompensate in their setup again.  The last time the Open was played at a muni (Bethpage), they made it so tough, and set the tees so far back that many of the pros couldn't even reach the fairway.  I don't mind a tough layout, but it needs to be fair.

The only time I care about "fair" is with the greens. I think a good shot should stay on the green and not roll off because the greens are mounded and very firm.

The rest of the time I want these pampered sons of guns tortured. Let's see somebody cry like a little girl.  :biggrin:

Make missing the fairway a punishment......and a bunker torture.

Sure, but a perfectly straight 260 yard drive should not land in the scrub short of the fairway, either, as happened at Bethpage.  They basically set up that course so that only the huge hitters had a chance.

Needs to be very much a graduated rough, in my opinion.  It's not equitable to penalize the guy who misses an 18 yard wide fairway by a yard the same as the guy who misses it by 20 yards.  

From what I've seen and read.....the fairways are pretty wide at Chambers Bay. The premium is going to be iron shots into greens and being able to hit spots even if it's away from the pins.

The fairways are wide, except in the landing areas, where they are very narrow

Unlike Hazeltine National in Chaska, MN, which I played the week following the 91 US Open when I was there on business and one of the guys I was working with was a member.   The membership decided to keep it as close to open conditions for a couple of weeks following the Open.  Toughest golf course I have every played.  Landing areas were tight (a couple about 14 yards in width) and the greens were like putting on glass.  It was really humbling, and that was the time in my life that I was playing the best golf I have ever played.  

Only if your are trying to BOMB it to the narrow parts....in which case you get what you deserve. It's why most aren't using their drivers very much and going with 3 woods. As a US Open goes, these are about as wide of fairways you will ever see.

If one of those trains that run past the 15th green were to de-rail and crash into the Puget Sound, it wouldn't be any bigger of a trainwreck than Tiger's game right now. :crazy:

Hate to say (not really)....but it's fun to watch. Hope he misses the cut by 20 strokes so he can take another 4 weeks off before he plays again.