Well we’ve made it! This morning my dad and I rolled into Bathesda, MD to spend the next week attending the 111th US Open golf tournament at Congressional Country Club! My dad and I have only been planning this trip for the last 5 years so it is safe to say that he and I are more than excited about this coming week. In fact, I can even go as far as saying we are downright gitty. The journey started yesterday (June 12) when I took off from Cedar Lake after church and drove to Syracuse where I transferred my belongings to my parents’ car and started east toward Maryland. We drove for 6 hours or so and stayed overnight in a hotel in Mt. Pleasant, PA. First thing this morning, June 13, we headed out for the final leg of our journey to Maryland. We arrived at Herb and Joyce’s (our gracious hosts for the week) around 11:30AM. We picked up our ticket badges (which were like opening an entire room of Christmas presents on Christmas Day) and other necessary materials and we were at the gates of Congressional Country Club by noon. Herb took us to “the Club” and showed us around and took us into the clubhouse for lunch. Let me tell you something, the course was amazing and this clubhouse was incredible. It was a beautiful building and the course was in immaculate condition. I wish I could have just gone up and walked on a green just once but those greens are in fragile condition and don't need anymore foot traffic than they already had.
After lunch dad and I began our adventure investigating the course. There were not a lot of high profile golfers but there were a few (Padraig Harrington, Zach Johnson, Angel Cabrera, Dustin Johnson, David Toms, etc.) that we followed around for a little bit. Mostly, we wondered around the front nine of Congressional in awe that we were actually here, but we did chart some places that we want to watch a lot of golf action throughout the week and we found the practice tees and practice greens. I also bought a US Open hat (which is not a surprise to those that know me) and got some ideas for other things I want to get to remember this event.
Overall, it was a successful day and we are both pretty tired. But there is no rest for the golf nuts that we are. We will be back up and on the course to watch more practice tomorrow morning at 7:15. I will be blogging more of my experiences tomorrow evening and also look for pictures that I plan to post tomorrow night on my Facebook page. Stay tuned!
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