We worked with the( men) players' caddies and obtained all of the driving club information they had from the teeing grounds and then obtained the clubs they hit on approach shots and the yardages they hit them, and we gathered information from marshals on the putting greens about how the ball was reacting. So we not only knew what the men hit the first week from the tee, and their approach shots and the ranges that they were hitting but how the balls were performing on the greens.

John Bodenhamer

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For the golf at the Olympics in 2016, this will be a model. We're already starting to talk about how to administer the men and then the women playing in Rio 2016, they're using the model that we created to get information and use it in the Olympics next year.

John Bodenhamer

I look around this place and I see like 90 days ago we did n’t think we were gong to have fans, to see that we have six or seven grandstands that have gone up in the last couple of weeks, it’s pretty remarkable. ’’ While happy to have a crowd, USGA officials can only shake their heads at the timing. On Tuesday, California loosened its COVID-19 restrictions, allowing the Los Angeles Dodgers to play Tuesday before more than 50,000 fans, which is about the number of tickets usually sold for a normal Open round. John Bodenhamer said there simply was n’t enough time to revamp the plan and add capacity to Torrey Pines once it became clear that restrictions would be lifted. `` I had the question earlier today, why do n’t you have 30,000, 40,000 people ?

John Bodenhamer

We're trying to get our head around all of that. It's pretty daunting but we've started.

John Bodenhamer