Well, the 1st Round of the 2011 US Open at Congressional Country Club is in the books and all I can say is “WOW!!” This experience continues to get better and better. After the three practice rounds, dad and I developed a strategy for watching the tournament. The plan today, which was carried out with great precision, was to go and park ourselves in the grandstands behind 12 green. This was a perfect spot because from the grandstands at 12 green you can see all of 12th green, 13th tee and 13th green (it’s a par 3) and you can see the 14th tee. Plus you could see some of the 11th fairway and 11th green. It was a great spot to see great golf and the way the tee times are set up (they start groups off both 1st tee and 10th tee) we did not have to wait long to see golf.
Once we started watching golf at 7:00AM, we stayed in that place and watched all but 3 groups come through. That is over 11 hours of golf! It was a lot of golf and a lot of sitting but I wouldn’t trade it for anything to be honest. I get to hang out with my dad (which, as he would definitely confirm, would be cool enough on it’s own) AND watch one of my favorite sports to play being played by the best in the world on the most beautiful and toughest course on the planet. I’d say that is pretty tough to beat. We saw some great golf, we saw some not so great golf. We saw great shows (chip ins from the bunkers) and not so great shots (struggling to get it out of the bunkers). All of it added up to a great day.
The attire that the golfers were wearing today was also interesting to point out. Most golfers wore understated clothing but then you had golfers like Davis Love III and his florescent pink pants and Bubba Watson with his camouflage pants. These golfers definitely drew attention to themselves but fortunately their game lived up to it too.
That is all I have for right now. There is so much to say that I can’t do in about 20 posts. The thing is though; there will be even more to tell in the next three day.
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