Chambers Bay Golf Course was the venue for the 2015 US Open and is located in University Place, WA, some 20 miles from our house in Puyallup, WA. It is a links course along the Puget Sound Bay, and measures 7,124 yards from the pro’s tee. You’ll have to walk the whole length with a caddie to play the course.

In the first photo below our family, wife and daughter, were celebrating my 85th birthday at Anthony’s at Point Defiance Park in Tacoma, several miles north of Chambers Bay GC. A large white ferry in the background shuttles between this park and Vashion Island, one of many islands in the Puget Sound. To the right of the ferry is shown snow/cloud covered Mt. Rainier, the tallest mountain in the US West, some 14,400 feet high.

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Photo, caption, & essay by Charles Kim; October, 2024