"If the ’08 event wasn’t enough to justify a return trip to Torrey Pines your standards are too high."

Add Rex Hoggard to the list wondering why Torrey Pines is not on the USGA radar.

It has been among major championship golf’s greatest mysteries ever since Tiger Woods limped to the stage to hoist the 2008 U.S. Open trophy that Torrey Pines wasn’t immediately penciled in as a once-a-decade stop for the national championship.

Even more concerning was a report last week in the San Diego Union-Tribune that the USGA is in no apparent hurry to lock the SoCal layout into a regular spot in the national championship rotation.

“We’re not going to sit around waiting for a call to go to the prom,” Tom Wornham, the former president of the Century Club who now is the co-chair, told the Union-Tribune.

You may not like the architectural significance of the South Course, or the thought of back-to-back West Coast Opens, Pebble Beach is scheduled to host the 2019 championship, but if the ’08 event wasn’t enough to justify a return trip to Torrey Pines your standards are too high.