Time to push rhetoric aside and focus on golf

If you accept as truth what has been widely reported, that this northern California city is one of the world’s most beautiful, the evidence was not readily available yesterday morning to substantiate that claim.

Blanketed in a clam chowder-like fog and saturated in a heavy mist the final day of practice before the start of the 112th US Open got off to a miserable start.

Cold. Raw. Dreary. It was uncomfortable but fitting. After all, this is the most uncomfortable of all the major golf championships.