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[Jud Tigerman]

Paul,

the U.S. Amateur is the test tourney to guage how an open would be at Erin Hills...

[Paul Thomas]

Paul,

the U.S. Amateur is the test tourne to see guage how an open would be at Erin Hills...

but thats next year and the are going to announce the 2017 Open site in Feb, i understand...

and i forgot to add that Jim Colton raised a lot of very good points in his post

[Mark Smolens]

Jud, I hope you didn't really mean that the USGA was looking for accommodation from the City of Chicago    Lemont is a long way from the City of Chicage.  The problems with the USGA were with the folks who run Cook County -- and the Jemseks have had far fewer problems in their dealings than they did out South (I believe Mr. Lavin has posted numerous times on here about his personal knowledge as to the mistakes that the USGA made in that regard).

Is there anyone out there who thinks that 30k people per day can be transported in to Erin Hills in a reasonable period of time?  The course may be "25 to 30 minutes from Milwaukee," but fat chance access to that many people can be effected in anything close to that time period.

[Phil McDade]

Mark:

Is Shinnecock any better? (I recall driving around the eastern edge of Long Island one summer, roaming around SH and NGLA, and it seemed pretty narrow and congested, esp. at the height of the Hamptons season.)

Hard to say before it happens, but I think concerns about getting folks in and out of Erin Hills are a bit over-stated. Whistling Straits, which is near...a tavern...., used busses to simply bring folks in from Sheboygan, drop them off at the front gate, and shuttle them back. For those like me who opted for cars, there was plenty of parking and another shuttle system to get to the main gate. Seemed to work. I'd imagine a similar system for EHills, if they go there for the US Open.

[Mark Smolens]

My friends took the train and a shuttle to Shinnecock and had no problems.  Other friends hated the time it took to get to the Straits for the PGA, and gave their tickets away after attending on Thursday. . .