Chance to work with the USGA?

[Scott Weersing]

Well, sort of. You would have two bosses, the USGA and Kemper Sports if you were the new superintendent at Chambers Bay.

Chambers Bay is looking for a new superintendent after Dave Wienecke resigned this week. I thought it was strange that this was newsworthy enough to make Tacoma Tribune.

Here is the article: Wanted: Man with Fescue Experience, http://www.thenewstribune.com/2012/05/06/2133532/wanted-man-with-fescue-experience.html

Would you take on the job with the US Open looming in 2015?
What are the pros and cons of the job?

[RDecker]

The tag line from the first "Wayne's World" movie comes to mind..."you'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll hurl"  Taking a new course, with new agronomic needs through a major with the whole world watching sounds like a huge undertaking then factor in the micromanagement of the
U.S.G.A. and you have got your work cut out for ya.

[Joe Stansell]

The folks at Chambers Bay seem quite happy with the work Josh Lewis has been doing on the greens. I'm reading a lot into employee dynamics here, but I suspect this was almost inevitable. I certainly wouldn't read too much into this, and I don't think its a harbinger of any difficulties between Chambers Bay and the USGA.