"If Bobby Jones came back here today, he would recognize every hole - especially this one," says Matt Shaffer, whose title is director of golf course operations and whose job is maintaining one of the world's most historic athletic venues.

Merion gets set for 2009 golf highlight

The view from the 11th hole of the Merion Golf Club has not changed substantially in nearly a century: Cobbs Creek chuckles and bubbles over smooth, buffed stones around three sides of the lima-bean-shaped green, and a deep, unforgiving bunker looms just to the left.


“If Bobby Jones came back here today, he would recognize every hole – especially this one,” says Matt Shaffer, whose title is director of golf course operations and whose job is maintaining one of the world’s most historic athletic venues.


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