Sports Fore!
posted by on February 8 at 9:33 AM
Chambers Bay Golf Course, just west of Tacoma, has been selected for the 2015 U.S. Open.
Seven months after it opened for public play, Chambers Bay can start preparing for the U.S. Open.Chambers Bay, built over a former gravel pit along the lower Puget Sound southwest of Seattle, was awarded the 2015 U.S. Open on Friday. It will be the first U.S. Open held in the Pacific Northwest.
I guess the Stranger Golf Squad can stop hoping that the fees at Chambers Bay will go down anytime soon. If you live in Pierce County and want to take us golfing with your county resident discount, we’re all ears.
Oh, and if you don’t like golf, you gotta like money:
Based on past U.S. Opens, county executive John Ladenburg predicted that with capacity attendance of 60,000 to 64,000, the total economic impact would be at least $100 million, compared with $50 million taken in for the 2001 baseball All-Star Game in Seattle.
Don't care.
This golf course totally displaced our nudie beach. Bring back our nudie beach!
Just kidding, it was just a place for kids to get drunk but it looks great now. Kudos.
DING DONG!
The course looks like the surface of the Moon - or even worse, like a British Open course.
Still, I'd like to play it.
I remember what this area used to look like. I'm not a big fan of golf courses, but in this case this is a tremendous improvement in land use.
I remember what this area used to look like. I'm not a big fan of golf courses, but in this case this is a tremendous improvement in land use.
Well, that pillar of virtuous opinion, Ladenburg, is probably right about this. I wish that he were right when he wrote to me, in answer to a question about whether he was currying favor with developers of the Cascadian project (et al) with his rabid support of the "cross-base highway", saying that he wasn't running for anything. This week the 'anything' apparently doesn't include the Wa Atty General seat... ^..^
To bad Sahalee gave up the 2010 PGA Championship (becasue of the olympics). Having two majors in the Pacific Northwest in two years would have put this region on the circut for good. This event will be great as long as the wind blows and it rains like hell.
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