How Chambers Bay put them in sick bay

We are only halfway through this year’s US Open but with just 36 holes in the books the casualties, both mental and physical, are already mounting from this most gruelling of golfing tests.

The US Open is renowned as the toughest examination in championship golf but the USGA came up with a way to make it even tougher when it selected the 7,900-yard Chambers Bay course as this year’s host for the second major of the season.

Firm, fast and with great variation in elevation all wrapped up in links aesthetic by the shores of Puget Sound in the Pacific Northwest of America, the challenge is a rigorous one of both mind and body.