NEW YORK _ John Bodenhamer has had to use "cautiously optimistic" a lot this year. In his role as senior managing director of championships for the United States Golf Association, he has had to deal with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and cancel 10 USGA championships for 2020.
That leaves the USGA with four championships at this point: the U.S. Open, the U.S. Women's Open, the U.S. Amateur and the U.S. Women's Amateur. When discussing the U.S. Open on Friday, he dropped the "cautiously" and emphasized the "optimistic."
"We are thinking about how were are going to conduct the event and not whether we are going to conduct it," Bodenhamer said.
