Whats wrong technically with the greens at Chambers Bay?

[Joel_Stewart]

Lots of comments, many are negative and from solely watching on TV they look questionable.


When I was at Olympic, the club literally spent close to 4 years prepping for the US Open.  This included rebuilding all 18 greens.


With the USGA agronomy team looking at this course for at least the last 3 years, I am a little surprised at the condition.

[Steve_ Shaffer]

Apparently, fescue was not the best choice for greens in that location:


http://aggca.blogspot.com/

[Pete Lavallee]

During last years king's Putter we played on several temporary greens as the real greens had been rebuilt. I believe it was 1, 10, 4, 7 and 13. The remaining greens were painfully slow in an effort to improve their condition. So the USGA and CB team have been on top of this all along. I suspect that the problems are magnified by the low high of cut necessary for our National Championship. Trying for 100% fescue may have been a fools errand; perhaps they should have gone with a blend of fescue and bents like Bandon.
 
Of course ask them how that worked out.

[Jon Wiggett]

Steve,

the anarchist's report is done to drive a point of view and though correct based on what it says, is pretty unbalanced. It is a very interesting read though. Was fescue the wrong choice? Probably not but the way they went about it was wrong and doomed to fail.

Trying for 100% fescue may have been a fools errand; perhaps they should have gone with a blend of fescue and bents like Bandon.
 

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