If you were King for a week.....

[Kalen Braley]

....and could be grand poobah for all things US Open, what would you do differently?  Please chime in both generally and also more specifically to what you would do different at the Olympic Club.

- First and foremost - Strict TV contract stipulations that would include:
    1)  Only one puff piece per day for the telecast.
    2) Fine NBC 100k per mention of Johnny Millers 63 at Oakmont.  I mean seriously, can we please, please, please put that to bed. 
    3)  Obligate them to show at least 3 shot per hour of everyone in the top 10...not just the popular player and then whenever someone else makes a putt over 10 feet.
    4)  Only one mention of the burger dog....for the love of Gawd that was so annoying yesterday when they went on and on about it.

- Switch #1 back to a par 5 and 17 to a par 4.  This would go a long way to help "balance" the 9s.

- Widen the fairways on the severely canted holes so they can actually land it and hold it.  Its beyond goofy to see these guys intentionally land it into the rough on the high side so it has a chance to hold on the low side.

[John Kavanaugh]

Have the leaders tee off at 2 Eastern so I could watch golf in the afternoon and seamlessly flow into the NBA finals.

[noonan]

Have the leaders tee off at 2 Eastern so I could watch golf in the afternoon and seamlessly flow into the NBA finals.

Agree!

[Mark Pearce]

Have the leaders tee off at 2 Eastern so I could watch golf in the afternoon and seamlessly flow into the NBA finals.

And we could see the leaders finish without staying up 'til 3am.

[John Kirk]

Very unusual for the major networks to compete against one another for a sports audience.  The basketball game and golf tourney overlap by a couple of hours.  I'll have to TiVo one or the other, and skip the commercials.

[Dan King]

I've been King for much more than a week, but now that Cousin Rodney has passed, I move up one notch on the Celebrity King List.

As King, I would use a 10 second shot clock. Get moving folks.

Cheers,
Dan King

Can we all get along?
 --Rodney King

[Greg Tallman]

I would not put so much water on the course during the tournament so as to change the playing conditions considerably which seems to have been the case from Friday to Saturday.

[Melvyn Morrow]

Banish Kalen – period

Increase the hire cost of carts by 1000%, if the sods want to ruin a great game, good golf and great courses I'll make them pay for the pleasure with max hire time of just  3 hours or pay twice the hire rate for late return.

[Mike_Trenham]

NCAA medalist gets exemption.

[Pat Burke]

funny, someone made a post totally irrelevant to the OP
Ironic that everyone misunderstands or misreads his posts.

For me, hard, fast, flyer lie rough.
Low scores ok.

[Sam Morrow]

I would arm and train select marshalls at the US Open, and probably most PGA tour events, with stun guns and have them patrol the galleries in search of buffoons (they aren't too difficult to locate). Said buffoons are the ones yelling "Get in the HOLE" before the ball leaves the tee on a par 5, "Yabbadabbadooooo!!!!!" after shots and, basically, anyone who speaks in anything louder than than the voice used in a funeral home.

After these "fans" awake from their high voltage warning, they would be gathered up and put in confinement with the other idiots and be forced to listen to audio "best of" feeds of Kelly Tilghman, Lanny Wadkins, Bob Trumpy, Mike Tirico, Curtis Strange, Paul Azinger, Chris Berman and Maury Povich.

Oh, and end world hunger and promote world peace.

Is Bob Trumpy dead?

[Garland Bayley]

Maybe some stun guns to shock the stuffed shirts out of their ............................... well stuffed shirts.

[Kalen Braley]

Quite the array of ideas.....

I'm thinking the stun gun one isn't half bad!!  Although I must admit, I thought the yabbadabbadoo was funny the first time I heard it...I wish it had stopped there.

P.S.  Melyvn, thanks for the love big guy, right back at ya!