Bubba Watson made a crazy putt during a practice round at Chambers Bay.

Putting & reading the greens well so far!! Good read @jtedscott!!#USOpenChambersBay pic.twitter.com/9Iobm55qUS

— bubba watson (@bubbawatson) June 12, 2015

Bubba shot even par in his first round of the U.S. Open

The 2015 U.S. Open is being played at Chambers Bay, in the Pacific Northwest. This course opened in 2008 and immediately was named as the course for this year’s championship. The consensus is that Chambers Bay is going to represent a unique test for the world’s top golfers.

I went looking online for some videos about Chambers Bay, and here is what I found, starting off with a Fox Sports promo video.

PGATour.com posted this video as a “Guide to Chambers Bay”

Course Designer Robert Trent Jones Jr. discusses Chambers Bay.

Golfing World does a review of Chambers Bay

Another part of this year’s tournament is that Fox Sports will be broadcasting the tournament coverage for the first time (NBC has been the broadcaster for that past 20 years). Here is their broadcast team discussing the course and what to expect at the tournament.

I just hope Mike Davis and the USGA don’t trick up the course too much.  Apparently they quit watering the course a couple of weeks ago and it is so baked out that you can bounce a golf ball off the fairway and catch it.

Touch firm out here pic.twitter.com/1eiiqz2QcF

— Lee McCoy (@LeeMcCoyGolf) June 16, 2015

Let’s hope for a good tournament.

A few weeks ago you could enter the lottery to get tickets to the 2016 Masters Tournament. The other day I received an e-mail from the Masters. Unfortunately I was not chosen to receive tickets for the tournament days (Thursday thru Sunday).

I am, however, still in the running for a chance to get tickets for the practice round days (Monday thru Wednesday).

Congratulations to anyone who was selected to tickets for the tournament days, and good luck to everyone who is still hoping for tickets to the practice rounds.

The Masters, a tradition like no other.