Perhaps the only person happier than Ladenburg is Mike Davis, who sets up courses for the USGA. "When I saw the site, I was just blown away at how gorgeous it was, how big the property was and the fact that it truly was all sand," Davis said. "When a course is built on all sand, you can really get great championship conditions."
And when the 2015 U.S. Open is played at Chambers Bay, the story will be told many times of how those great championship conditions sprang from an abandoned gravel mine due to the vision of John Ladenburg.
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