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chewings fescues (69 percent) and
creeping red fescue (25 percent).
Tallgrass roughs and sandy waste
areas were planted with hard fescue
(40 percent), sheep fescue (40
percent) and creeping red fescue
(20 percent).
Fescues can be wonderful when
established. Darin Bevard, director
of championship agronomy for
the USGA and the Green Section
staffer responsible for coordinating
maintenance standards for the
U.S. Open, notes that “fescues
require far less input of water and
fertilizers than cool-season grasses
like ryegrass or bentgrass. They also
require less mowing.”
Of course fescues are noticeably
susceptible to damage from traffic.
U.S. Open
n USGA
rules &
akes first visit
ay
Chambers Bay opens
USGA announces Chambers
Bay to host 2015 U.S. Open
Lone Fir, the only tree on site, by 16th
tee, is attacked by vandals, but survives
U.S. Amateur
Major renovations of the
golf course take place
2007
2008
2008
2010
2012-13
2015
Bruce Charlton calls
Chambers Bay ‘
the
biggest sand
box
any of us had
ever gotten to work on
Photo: Copyright USGA/John Mummert