The following is the extent of any knowledge of or experience I have with golf. Nothing exciting but things are ramping up here thanks to the sport coming to town so I thought I'd share.

Folks here in the Pinehurst/Moore County, NC area are already feeling the pain of the US Open coming. Roads are being resurfaced, trees being pruned, landscaping being dialed in, stores and restaurants sprucing themselves up. This makes everything us locals need to get done take much longer and it will be even worse the week of the event. Now that the US Open is headquartered here it might even be crazier. 

We can always tell when the networks and rich folks are coming by all the busy work being done to look good on television and impress the elites. 

With Tiger Woods coming to town people who care about such things have their pants in a bunch. It's kind of funny. I honestly wouldn't even think about it if I passed him in a restaurant. He's just another guy IMO. I probably wouldn't even recognize him since we're not a locale that's known for celebrity watching. Except for when the Open is here. 

There is a local doctor who bought a very large field on a back country road around 2011 and turns it into a parking lot when the Open comes to town. A bus or two is charterted to take people from there to Pinehurst Village for all the golf events. We're pretty sure he paid his loan off in one fell swoop from the last Open in 2014 because that lot was packed every single day. If not, he will surely do so at this one. 

There are rabid golf fans but at least golf doesn't bring the hype that Formula 1 does. I can't imagine the area turning into Miami, Vegas or Austin when F1 comes to those cities. Thank goodness for the small things.

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