Your own STATES Golf Association has announced the 2015 The Open Championship 2015 AS WELL AS 2010 U.S. Amateur Championship can be played in Chambers Bay, a good seven-month-old municipal golf course near Tacoma.
Designed coming from Robert Trent Jones Jr. AND Bruce Charleton in an former gravel AND sand quarry, Chambers Bay can be a links-style course It opened within 2007. the facility will be owned coming from Pierce County, Wash., IN ADDITION TO is actually area of an 930-acre park throughout University Place, Wash., exactly about the hour south regarding Seattle.
“We never dreamed we’d be selected with the USGA in order to host both your current U.S. Amateur AND U.S. Open championships,” said John Ladenburg, the Pierce County executive. “Especially not so close to the opening of the course. this can be a true honor.”
Chambers Bay joins three other public-access courses slated to help host U.S. Opens in the near future. your tournament is actually played for the South Course with Torrey Pines with La Jolla, Calif., with June; for the Black Course with New York’s Bethpage State Park with 2009; AND from Pinehurst No. only two in North Carolina’s Pinehurst Resort inside 2014. Torrey Pines AND Bethpage also are municipal courses. Chambers Bay will be the 1st golf course for the Pacific Northwest to help hold your own U.S. Open.In a good report unveiled by the USGA, Jim Hyler, chairman of your USGA Championship Committee, said, “We are usually excited to carry your current U.S. Open Championship and also the U.S. Amateur to be able to this type of a outstanding site. my partner and i are usually confident that the golf course will probably provide the a good challenging test to its Least complicated players for the world, AND a great spectator experience intended for anybody that attend your own event ALONG WITH see The idea on the net ALONG WITH from television.
The Open Championship 2015 position to the GOLF Magazine 10 Easiest New Courses You will Play list throughout 2007. According towards the USGA, your own decision to be able to award your own championships to be able to Chambers Bay \’m validated by the USGA Executive Committee on their annual meeting within Houston, but ones formal approval is actually pending contractual agreement.
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