When the U.S. Open came to the Pacific Northwest for the first time nearly a decade ago, golf enthusiasts in the upper left corner of the country hoped it’d be the start of significant events making a regular visit. So far, that has not come to fruition and there’s not much on the horizon to suggest it’ll change.
FILE - Paula Creamer hits out of a bunker during the first round at the Women’s PGA Championship golf tournament at Sahalee Country Club on June 9, 2016, in Sammamish, Wash. The Seattle area will get a taste of major golf this week when the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship is played at Sahalee for the second time. The course hosted the tournament in 2016 and served as the conclusion to a run of big golf events that visited the Puget Sound region during a six-year window that began in 2010.
For one week, an area that doesn’t have a regular stop on the PGA or LPGA tours and hasn’t hosted a major golf event in eight years will get a brief snippet. But it’s unlikely to satisfy golf enthusiasts who continue to ponder why one of the largest markets in the country is without a regular event on the top tours.
But the first impression left behind drew immediate complaints from players and fans. Whether it was the bumpy greens and burnt-out fairways left by unseasonably warm weather and poor watering decisions, or issues with fans’ ability to move around the venue, the feeling after Chambers Bay was unsatisfactory.and U.S. Women’s Amateur in the hope of those being steppingstones to something bigger – perhaps a U.S. Women’s Open.
“I’m disappointed we haven’t seen another major come from that. After the 2015 U.S. Open, I was one of those people excited they were going to announce the next one 10 years later, something like that,” Andrew said.
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