The Grass Should Be Greener
Whenever I have watched the Golf Channel, I see beautiful GREEN golf courses. When I played the game, in the desert cities of Arizona, we played on lush, green courses. So, it bothered me that University Place is set to host next summer’s U.S. Amateur championship and the 2015 U.S. Open at Chambers Bay, which is mostly dry, brown/yellow grass.
The guy in the pro shop told me that this is fescue grass that is naturally yellow/brown. Gosh, all this time, I have been watering my lawn. What a fool I have been. The pro shop dude pointed out that the British Open is held on courses which are brown/yellowish, Fescue.
I want my money back on the two bags of grass seed I purchased from Home Depot. The pictures on the bags showed lush green grass. Well, they got one over on me! Oh boy! I feel like such a chump.
The golf course at Chambers is just downright ugly and it will be an embarrassment to the community if it remains as is. Not to mention the concrete monoliths left-over from the previous structures at Chambers. Is it a modern day Stonehenge? Someone’s idea of art? Someone tell me what the sense in all this is? Veteran tour player Tom Kite was here last summer and said, “there is work to be done, and not a minute to waste.”
The property is owned by the county, not the City of University Place. The water view from the golf course is just amazing. It is just a disappointment, to this U.P. resident, that Pierce County will present an ugly brown golf course to the world for the week of the tournament, but maybe it is not a big deal to anyone else. Maybe it will rain that week, so it will be even more like those British tournaments.
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