Eric Risberg, AP
John Bodenhamer, the USGA senior managing director of championships and governance, answers questions Sunday, July 10, 2016, in San Martin, Calif. Bodenhamer, a former BYU golfer, is charged with setting up the course at this week's U.S. Open at Pebble Beach.
PEBBLE BEACH — John Bodenhamer has strong connections to Utah, having played for four years on a nationally ranked BYU golf team in the early 1980s and later working in Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch’s congressional office in Washington, D.C. for a couple of years. Since 1990 he has worked as a golf administrator in the Northwest and for the past eight years with the United States Golf Association.