PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. _ There is hope for the U.S. Open. Despite what your memory and your own eyes have told you, there is hope that our national championship can again be something about which golfers can dream, rather than a nightmare that they have to endure.
The U.S. Open just has to be the U.S. Open again. Forget about making the courses look as brown as British Open layouts or trying to make the graduated rough as tame as the first cut at Augusta.
Narrow the fairways, grow the rough, stay away from newbie courses and let 'er rip.
