USGA has a heart... Really, fans have a voice!!

**An amendment to the blog: if there is no golf on Monday or the ticket holder cannot come to the course, he or she will get half of the cost of the ticket. That's at least something...
One more addition: if less than 90 minutes of golf is played Saturday or Sunday, those folks can also attend on Monday.

**One last final comment:
So the Executive Director of the USGA says while he was pumping gas Thursday night and getting coffee this morning at a Dunkin Donuts, all he heard was angry chatter about how yesterday's ticket holders weren't getting compensated. so we owe the organization's change of heart to all of you who finally convinced David Fay that fans do count. And who said water cooler or in this case, "coffee coolata", talk isn't productive.

I don't normally blog this from home (I like my personal, off the clock, non-compensated time, if you know what I mean), but I was so enthused by the news that I had to pass it along. The USGA has decided to honor Thursday US Open ticket holders by allowing those folks to catch any action that might be played on Monday. With a high chance of rain tomorrow, there is a STRONG possibility the Open will extend into a 5th day and you Thursday fans might get to see a final round no less. Way to go fans! Your vocal protest created such a publicity nightmare that the USGA was forced to oblige! Here is more:

"David Fay, executive director of the USGA, acknowledged that the USGA was affected by the angry response from fans after the round was washed out Thursday after 3 hours, 16 minutes. "I'm a New Yorker, so I would have been surprised if they didn't express their opinion," he said, adding that he overheard very negative comments when he was pumping gas Thursday night and when he went to Dunkin' Donuts Friday morning. "There is no solution that's perfect," Fay said. " Courtesy: Newsday (thanks to my friend Mark Herrmann who is there reporting)