It took the sharp eye of an architect to nail this one.
Golf '07 | Chambers Bay is a bit of Scotland near Tacoma
By Blaine Newnham
CHAMBERS BAY GOLF COURSE
More than 100,000 truckloads of sand were hauled to a cleaning site, and then returned during the construction of Chambers Bay, which was once a sand and gravel mine. The course was built on 250 acres, about 100 more than a typical course.
UNIVERSITY PLACE — What aspiring new high-end golf course doesn't claim that its goal is to someday host the U.S. Open?
"You ought to go after the British Open, not the U.S. Open," an official of the United States Golf Association told Robert Trent Jones Jr., whose architectural firm has shaped the stunningly beautiful Chambers Bay course on the sandy slopes of the Tacoma Narrows.
Chambers Bay is set to open the third week of June to a public that will be asked to pay up to $150 a round in greens fees and walk the course by either employing a caddie or toting their own clubs.
This will be public golf at its very best, or worst, depending on your point of view and how well Jones and his crew have done their work.
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