The first day of golf at Bethpage Black is more like a swimming match from the Olympics.

Some of the talk you heard was Michael Phelps would be very good today at this game; he could swim from lake to lake and hit shots in between.

The sights and sounds were of the grounds crew and their squeegees trying their run the tremendous amount water out of the fairways and off the greens.

After the second day, but only one round, played, we see Mike Weir on the leader board and Phil Michelson in second place with a strong card at the turn.

Tiger Woods is in the hunt, as well as notables Rocco Mediate and Sergio Garcia

So far today the weather’s been good and the scoring been great.

A good friend of mine said he was listening to commentators talk about the little placard in the pro shop that says, “If you didn’t bring your a game don’t pay the Black course.”

Bethpage Black and the other four courses at Beth page Park has to close to 300,000 golfers a year. With this Bethpage Black being the number one course that you will see people sleeping in their cars just to play.

It’s great to see one of the toughest municipal courses, and maybe one of the toughest courses anywhere, municipal or private.

The U.S. Open has always been a huge motivator for amateur golfers, semi pro golfers and golfers trying to get to the top, the PGA.

The line in Las Vegas is pretty good on this one.

I really enjoy the commentators that mentioned how the fans in New York always come out with a fanatical approach to supporting all the golfers, and how golfers enjoy the straight forwardness that you seem to only get from a New Yorker!

Watching the Golf Channel and seeing past Bethpage US Open highlights from 2002, and inside stories make for a adrenaline filled four day to come.

A US Open at a Munie…who would of ever thought.

The fact is…everyone loves it period.

Everyone Enjoy!  Factoid: 300,000 golfers a year play at the Bethpage Park Golf Courses. Of those many sleep in their cars over night to play the world famous Bethpage Black Course.

Tiger Woods will be coming in to the U.S. Open after comeback win in the Memorial at Dublin, Ohio Sunday with a score of 65 that broke him out of a four-way tie.

Tiger quickly silence the skeptics before the two weeks that follow coming into the U.S. Open at Bethpage Black in New York.

So what can we expect from Tiger Woods coming off the Memorial win in Dublin, Ohio, and Mickelson playing for his first major after the tragic news of his wife’s cancer?

What about Sergio, the Big Easy, Rocco, Furyk, Jonathan Byrd, Davis Love III, Mark Wilson and many others who are on the top of their game. Tiger was playing with Michael Letzig, during his comeback and Michael said “It was some of the best golf I’ve ever seen.”

All of the professional golfers will be playing the U.S. Open with the Memorial in the back of their mind and to top it off, the memory of one of the greatest U.S. Open’s we’ve seen in my lifetime…The Tiger Woods Rocco Mediate playoff on Monday.

Only watching will tell us a fanatical golfer who has the mustard for our second favorite golf tournament the U.S. Open.

Find out if the pack will be Tigerized…or will we find a new golf hero on Sunday?

From top ranking to bottom we have the Midway’s Soldier Hollow ranked at No. 11, Monticello’s Hideout is ranked No. 22, St, George’s Sunbrook is No. 25 and Wingpointe in Salt Lake City is ranked No. 37.

Utah joins California and Arizona as the only states with four or more cources on the top 50 munies ranked by Golfweek.

It is a testament to the domination occurring in our 4-5 state area as far as golf goes.

When you can be mentioned in the same breath as Bethpage Black, Chambers Bay and Torrey Pines and a number of others public golf courses who have hosted PGA Tour events, that really says a lot!

Everyone who make this possible…take a bow.

Great Job!