UNIVERSITY PLACE, Wash. – At some point, the players will take over. But right now, the star of the 2015 U.S. Open is the golf course itself. Chambers Bay is the center of attention and speculation. Is it really a links? What’s with the fescue grass? Are the greens too busy? Too bumpy? Is it a contrived attempt to dress up golf as a sustainable model for the future?
All it takes is some conversation between two of its principal visionaries to affirm the uniqueness of this site. Which is what took place Monday afternoon of practice week, when architect Robert Trent Jones Jr.