When the U.S. Open arrives at Chambers Bay later this month, it will be a crowning moment in the career of Robert Trent Jones Jr. The 75-year old, having designed almost 300 courses around the world, will become the first living architect in decades to witness the National Championship play out over one of his creations. (The…
by Jay Blasi There will be a number of “firsts” at the 2015 U.S. Open – first time held in the Pacific Northwest, first U.S. Open course played on all fescue turf, first new design since the 1970s. And for the players, it will be the first time at a U.S. Open where they will…
Robert Trent Jones II is the architect of record at Chambers Bay, the 2015 U.S. Open host course in University Place, Wash., near Seattle. But like most big-name designers, he has a whole team that works for him, including Jay Blasi, now 36, who served as the project architect. Blasi, a Wisconsin landscape architecture graduate, was involved…
By Jay BlasiWed 03 Jun, 2015 Chambers Bay will mark a number of firsts for the US Open; first US Open course in the Pacific Northwest, first US Open course played on all fescue turf, first modern design to host the championship since Hazeltine National in the 1970s. But beyond championships, what’s interesting about Chambers…
One of the architects of Chambers Bay gives his thoughts on what it takes to prepare for a U.S. Open. We asked Jay Blasi of Robert Trent Jones II, Golf Course Architects, to review three different U.S. Open venues he was lucky enough to visit in the span of one week this summer. On June…