Tiger's AT&T will presage the U.S. Open's return to Merion GC in 2013--the first time in 32 years that a major will be played in the City of Brotherly Love. The big picture from all this: Philadelphia is back on the golf map, at a club with a tradition that made a transformation. "There are some great clubs and courses here that you would think would be hard to avoid," Naumann said. "That's kind of incredible that there has not been a PGA Tour stop here for so long. You wouldn't expect that in a market like Philadelphia."
Change has come to America in different forms. As for golf and the new president in this troubled economy, that is the unknown. Woods was doing his part to try and stir the economy, stimulate the housing market as nearly 1,000 proposed homebuyers rode buses to a mountaintop to hear Tiger drum up business in a dead housing market. Woods even opened his talk by saying, "Y'all," which drew a thunderous roar.
The day will come when Woods and Obama are in the same monumental photo, hopefully in 2009 at Congressional, and after that at Aronimink where the AT&T will continue to honor the military on July 4 weekend. We know the new President is installing a basketball court in the White House. With Woods' influence as ambassador of golf hopefully the putting green will stay, too.
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