Robert Trent Jones Jr., the architect of the public links-style course hosting this month’s United States Open, likens the circus descending on Chambers Bay GolfCourse in less than two weeks to a symphony.
In his analogy, Jones is the composer. The conductor is Mike Davis, the United States Golf Association executive director, in charge of the tournament setup. “And the players are the musicians,” Jones said. “So we want everybody to be in tune so we’ll have some beautiful golf music.”
Perhaps it is fitting, given the Seattle area’s connection to grunge rock, that the feedback before the event has contained a high level of distortion and dissonant harmonies and unmistakable themes of angst, alienation and apathy.