UNIVERSITY PLACE, Wash. — It is initially overwhelming, but the more you play it, the less intimidating and more accessible it seems, said the former United States Open champion Jim Furyk. He was talking about Chambers Bay, which measured 7,637 yards on Saturday, but he could have been speaking of the PGA Tour.
On moving day, the quarry turned quirky United States Open course was an elevator ride up the leaderboard for a group of players with ample promise but no major prizes. By nightfall, the top 14 included two major winners (the 36-hole co-leader Jordan Spieth and Louis Oosthuizen) and several others holding tickets for the best-player-never-to-have-never-won-a-major sweepstakes.