Future US Open, British Open, and PGA sites
As long as we're talking about golf, it's always interesting to me to see where the rotating majors will be staged. This is all from Wiki.
United States Open
2009 - Bethpage Black
2010 - Pebble
2011 - Congressional
2012 - Olympic
2013 - Merion East
2014 - Pinehurst #2
2015 - Chambers Bay (a links course near Tacoma)
I'm not familiar with the last course. It's good to see the US Open back in North Carolina in 2014. I'm not a fan of Congressional, a course I find dull. I think Ernie Els won last time it was there. Olympic is pretty but IIRC, the 1998 Open with Lee Janzen and Payne Stewart (that's right, Tigerbots, other people have actually won majors) was plagued by lousy, torn-up greens and punitive pin placements. Though the latter is probably more the fault of the rather insane USGA. Bethpage Black and Pebble set up very well for Jesus T Woods. I like a links set-up, so Chambers Bay will be interesting.
The [British] Open Championship
2009 - Turnberry
2010 - Saint Andrews
2011 - St George
2012 - Lytham & Anne
My experience of the British Open is that the Scottish courses are pretty and the English ones ugly. Turnberry's my favorite of the lot. As usual, in 5-multiple years they go back to St Andrews, a course that sets up very well for Tiger and other long hitters becuase you can hit your errant drive all the way to the Faroe Islands and still recover for birdie. St George I associate with Greg Norman. Lytham & Anne is so vague in my recollection.
PGA Championship
2009 - Hazeltine
2010 - Whistling Straits
2011 - Atlanta Athletic Club
2012 - Kiawah
2013 - Oak Hill
2014 - TBA
2015 - Whistling Straits
2016 - Baltusrol
More of Payne Stewart's ghost, with a major returning to Hazeltine. I think they've chanced the setup of that course multiple times. Whistling Straits is really beautiful. Having the PGA in the American South in August seems kind of crazy to me, but I'm glad to see Kiawah in the rotation, the site of a great Ryder Cup. Baltusrol and Oak Hill are old northeastern deciduous-tree standbys of great quality. I don't know what's up with 2014. I'd like to see Valhalla get back in there.
I'm glad to see Oakmont out of the US/PGA rotation. They destroyed that course by mowing down all the trees.
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