US Open Week

It's time to kick off the week that will determine the National Champion. Thoughts for Monday:

- USGA Executive Director Mike Davis is on record, according to the Golf Channel, as saying he wants the greens rolling 14.5 on the stimpmeter this week. That's crazy fast. Will there be a repeat of Shinnecock if they get the greens going that fast?

- There are rumors that security has been increased at Congressional for a possible Presidential appearance on Sunday afternoon. Obama could be presenting the trophy to the winner. Political ideology aside, I think it would be really cool to see the POTUS present the trophy to the winner of our National Championship.

- The USGA is notorious for putting together groupings of interest. It's always fun to speculate as to what they're thinking when they put them together. Check out these groupings of interest:

Phil Mickelson, Dustin Johnson, Rory McIlroy - the "people who have choked away majors"
Graeme McDowell, Louis Oosthuizen, Peter Uihlein - US Open, British Open, and US Amateur champions
Luke Donald, Lee Westwood, Martin Kaymer - 1, 2, and 3 in the world
Rickie Fowler, Ian Poulter, Hunter Mahan - the "guys who need help dressing themselves"
Henrik Stenson, Johan Edfors, Fredrik Jacobson - the Swedes
Miguel Angel Jimenez, Sergio Garcia, Alvaro Quiros - the Spaniards (Seve tribute?)
Francesco Molinari, Edoardo Molinari, Matteo Manassero - the Italians
Ryo Ishikawa, Y.E. Yang, Anthony Kim - the Asians and "we'll just throw Kim in, he's close enough"

And my favorite:
Charl Schwartzel, Trevor Immelman, Zach Johnson - 3 guys who have won the Masters and probably won't do shite else in their careers.

to the USGA. And here's to a great week of championship golf.