John McHenry says the proposed rule amendments to the golfing scene will be a set of very welcome changes.

Chambers Bay, as a venue, was always going to be controversial because the USGA had once again changed the script. They wanted the golf course more links-like, with wider fairways than the norm.

One can only imagine that on occasion a member of the Myopia Hunt Club north of Boston — clear across America by some 3,000 miles from Chambers Bay and the 115th U.S. Open — will come across a golf ball long ago lost by one W.E. Stoddard.