It's all perspective, it seems to me. From my perspective, you can't have *bad* weather for an outdoor game like golf -- you just have the weather. Why shouldn't what we love about the Open - ie the variability of the conditions, year to year, day to day, sometimes hour to hour - apply equally to the PGA Championship? Yes - it might be 80 and sunny or it might 48 and rainy. Great! Or at least it would be great if not for our built-in bias against the 4th/least major and our snobbishness (that's what it is) in assuming the worst about the PGA leadership. I remember that Jack's Memorial Tournament - played in a "perfect" slot 2 weeks before the US Open - seemed for years to be plagued by bad weather/delays because of typical summer storms -- but everyone dealt with it just fine, mostly because Jack is Jack. How about we give Pete Bevacqua and the PGA Championship just a little of the same respect? We might find that, a few years on, this now-first major will have developed the unique personality and character folks have long complained it doesn't have. And, (spoken as a life-long northeasterner) isn't it about time we stop being so precious about the New York-NJ etc courses and genuinely embrace and promote the dozens of gems that would be perfect major venues in other parts of the country?