…I know you didn’t have the time – but you brought up Citibank and that huge lie they told about their profits. The reason they showed a profit was because they have taken TAXPAYER money from three different “bailout” plans to do what they said they did. LIES !! Now they are flaunting their “profit” based on funny money – they did nothing in their business to earn that profit. (this is as bad as Bill Clinton saying he had a budget surplus when he added in social security and medicade funds – which are expressly forbidden from being added into the budget figures – but nobody in the media bothered to point that out)

Interesting that your guest pointed out that the course set up for Torrey Pines will have almost no change to the way it usually plays. He said they would firm up the greens – and I question whether they will do that or not. The LPGA Tour course set up guy told the people at the RTJ course in Prattville to widen the fairways and slow the greens down. They also had the course put the public hole placements off in some very tucked positions so the middle of the greens would be smooth for the middle of the green tournament hole positions.

Yeah, I didn’t want to delve into Citigroup’s false profits for too long, but you’re absolutely right that it’s a false number…at best.

I was also intrigued when Tod said that they were basically taking on Torrey South as it was. I would bet that helped smooth the deal a ton. It also probably came up in their thinking of your point about the comparison between men and women on this course so close to one another.

They’ve chosen courses the men would never ever play. There have been exceptions, and enough of them that the USGA could form a pretty good 10 year rotation out of , Like the following

Cherry Hills
NCR
Crooked Stick
Prarie Dunes
Broadmoor
Pumpkin Ridge

All of these and the next 6 I list, have hosted a USGA Men’s championship or PGA Championship at least.(NCR hosted the PGA in 69).

That’s 6 out of 10 years right there. Then you got these 6 courses that regularly host men’s majors or men’s tour stops, so maybe you alternate three of them one decade, the other three the next

Colonial
Oakmont
Hazeltine
Atlanta Athletic
Balutsroll
Winged Foot

You got 9 out of every 10 years filled, and you stop going to courses . That’s a pretty good rotation. Make Blackwolf, Pine Needles, or Newport the 10th. They aren’t bad and certainly heads above some of the clunkers of the 60’s and 70’s.

The US Women’s Open would going to the country club of Indianapolis and Rochester, places like Indianwood etc etc. No more Del Pasos!