Can U.S. Open Save Golf

The 2015 U.S. Open is bringing new surprises that golf has yet to see. The question is, can these new approaches to golf tournaments turn around the PR for this sport? It’s worth noting that the players and the premises for golf are not as thrilling as we remember when seeing Tiger Woods move up the ranks.

There may be a lack of exciting prospects to follow for the current generation. We are surely not hearing great golf stories flood the news arena. American pro golfing is now hoping to renew interest in golf with a spectacular course no professional has yet known.
This will be a U.S. Open challenge: the first of its kind. The course is, “. …not a golf course,” according to many professional golfers, however. It does, nonetheless, have challenges that could renew interest in the golf pastime when players are forced to bring their A game to make a measly par. This course choice is about making spectacular things happen as men compete on the fairways. Spectacular action is the only way to win this course and not leave the tournament beaten by the earth.

These are standing moments in golf history that will pave the direction this sport is bound to take. Where within public sentiment will that be? The world may never know. What we can see is that big moves are being made to give golf what it has never had with a U.S. Open, and many of the players involved are not too thrilled about the prospect.

The Chambers Bay course for the 2015 U.S. Open spreads out with numerous elevation changes, extremely dry grasses, fescue as the primary grass and ripples in the fairways that make golf balls shoot in every other direction than intended. Some sand bunkers are so deep they need stairwells for entrance and exit.

This will be a sight to see for sure. At this moment, the 2015 U.S. Open is to be held in Chambers Bay, Washington state. The course is situated south of Puget Sound and west of Tacoma. This tournament will bring many “first-time” situations for the U.S. Open and golf in America. The year 2015 will hold the first ever Open to be located in the Pacific Northwest.
Golfers generally feel a bit intimidated by the course selection that was built on the old site of a gravel mine. The surface of the fairway and green are said to be indistinguishable, and its stiffness will make balls jump higher and bounce more out of control. So this could be a great success or a great disaster as golf aims to improve their PR.

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