Congressional and The U.S. Open

In wrapping up last week's AT&T National, Len Shapiro reminds us (well me and my bad memory) that the event will have to find a new home in 2010 and 2011 to allow Congressional to rebuild its greens and host the U.S. Open.

I know I raised this before, but I still can't fathom how the USGA is allowing them to redo greens so close to the Open. And it's even more bizarre that the club is working around the needs of a 2009 tour stop before ripping them up, when the USGA committed to Congressional long before the AT&T National was even a bad Jack Vickers dream.

Either way you shake it politically, agronomically it means one growing season before the U.S. Open at a site that has always struggled with turf.  Sure seems like they are setting themselves up for a possible disaster...