Chambers Bay prepares for 2015 U.S.Open set for June 18

As you make your way around Chambers Bay these days, you will see little white and yellow markers. Those are the beginning of where bleacher seating will be for the U.S. Open when it gets here on June 18.

Local media got a look at what the course setup will be like and where bleachers will be set up, including 5,500 seats right behind the 18th green at Chambers Bay. Danny Sink, the 2015 U.S. Open championship coordinator, has been on site for over two years.

Creative as in how to fit more than 40,000 people on the course each day. He said there will be 15,000 bleacher seats on the course and another 1,000 at the player practice areas for spectators to watch the players warm up.

Sink showed off the versatility of Chambers Bay including how No. 1 and No. 18 will alternate as par 4s and par 5s. Another example is the par-3 15th hole that will play at 246 yards one day and maybe 124 yards the next.

And much attention was given to Chambers Bay’s fine fescue grass.

“We’ve never had a U.S. Open … at a true links course and never one on all fescue grass,” Sink said. “If the fescue is right, there is not a grass with a truer roll (on putts). It doesn’t look as pretty as some of the other grasses, but it will go right where you hit it.”

Chambers Bay has begun limiting play to help have the course in top condition in June. The course is not in championship condition right now, Sink said, but he is very confident it will be ready.