Video Preview: U.S. Women's Open At Sebonack

Here's a nice video overview and the first glimpses of the Doaklaus design making its debut on a grand stage, this week's U.S. Women's Open.

Mark Herrmann has the backstory of Sebonack and the odd design pairing of Jack Nicklaus and Tom Doak:

Logic insisted that, when the time came to design Pascucci's dream course, he hire Nicklaus to do it, which is what happened. Logic left the room, though, when Pascucci insisted that Nicklaus share the job with Doak, the current architecture whiz. The course owner held a meeting at which neither of his guests wanted to be present.

"I remember the tension in that office was incredible,'' said Mark Hissey, who was project manager while Sebonack was being built and is executive director of this year's Women's Open.
At one point, Pascucci left the room, pretending he had a phone call, just so the two men could start talking. Before it was over, they had an agreement, and when they were all done, they had a course that the U.S. Golf Association found major-worthy.