Congressional's Green Rebuilding Unfortunately Goes Off Without A Hitch

The misery that is a U.S. Open next year at Congressional is finally setting in now that Barry Svluga reports on the course's upcoming reopening after a great job by superintendent Mike Giuffre and various contractors to get the greens rebuilt on schedule, dashing all hopes of a possible U.S. Open move.

Comments

[Phil]

Seeded the greens and installed sub air. Amazing how a good super can make an architect look brilliant. Rees may be dumb but he's not stupid.

[John]

Why does Geoff not like Congressional?

[GolfFan]

Why does GS dislike Congressional? Because he has good architectural taste. The routing new style is horrendous, the bunkering is either non-functional, redundant, poorly built or all three. For starters.

Congressional along with Medinah #3 and Olympic Lake ought ot all be blown up and re-built. They're all that bad and thought of as "good".

[OWGR Fan]

@GolfFan....

Some would put Firestone South in that list as well.

[Phil]

OWGR: Firestone is not a classic course like Olympic, Medinah or Congressional which all have been modernized out of existance. All of these have stories on why and how they have been brutaly altered, but the main one is the memberships or management have sacrificed their courses to appease the pro tour or the USGA for 1 week every five or ten years.

[d.b.cooper]

With Medinah, it started poorly because they had the "wrong" name as the original architect.

Bendelow was a better architect than generally given credit. It wasn't all 18 flags on a Sunday afternoon.

[GolfFan]

Phil is 100% right. So is d.b.

Good job, boys.