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TRAVEL
T
he former Lone Star mine in University Place, Ore., has
served Pierce County well. The gravel pulled from the
mine for more than a century paved the streets of the
county as well of those in nearby Tacoma, Wash., and Seattle.
It was used for buildings and bridges too. When the gravel was
gone, the unsightly pit was purchased by the county and turned
into a public oasis-950 acres along the shores of Puget Sound
with a beach, playground, walking trails and a remarkable golf
course called Chambers Bay.
About 25 USGA tournaments have been held in Washington
State, but never the big one. That will change in June 2015, when
Chambers Bay displays to the world just how remarkable it is.
Novel in its very conception, the course was built with major
tournament golf in mind-though when it was being planned
there was no guarantee such a thing would actually happen. But
in 2008, the year after the course opened, the decision was made
to award it the 2015 U.S. Open, with a dry run of sorts hosting
the 2010 U.S. Amateur.
USGA Executive Director Mike Davis said holding the Open
at Chambers Bay represents some out-of-the-box thinking:
" The last time we truly came to a new golf course, if you will,
was in Minneapolis in 1970 for the U.S. Open at Hazeltine. "
Symmetry fans will note that Robert Trent Jones Sr. designed
Hazeltine. Robert Trent Jones Jr. takes the bow for Chambers
Bay, with chief design offi cer Bruce Charlton and former associate
Jay Blasi part of the team that fashioned the course.
Golf architecture geeks can argue about whether Chambers
Bay is really a links course or not. The owners and designers
claim it is. Malcolm Campbell and George Peper, the authors
of True Links, claim it is not, since it's nearly 100 miles from the
Pacifi c Ocean. Yet with its fescue fairways and greens, sandy soil
and fi rm, fast conditions, the pair concedes that Chambers Bay
" ...will become the most links-like course ever to host the U.S.
Open championship. "
" This is a fi rst, " Davis agrees. " We have never played a National
Open Championship on fi ne fescue greens.... It's a wonderful,
wonderful surface to play on. It bounces. It rolls. It just makes
for more enjoyable golf that requires more imagination, and
candidly, it's more thought-provoking for a championship. "
CHAMBERS BAY
chambersbaygolf.com
Various stay-and-play deals are available for visitors,
including a two-night, three-course package at
nearby The Home Course and Gold Mountain.
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