There will be a plethora of plot lines to follow over the next four days during the second golf major of 2015. The U.S. Open will make history in multiple ways, and could potentially be the site of another historic first. Chambers Bay Golf Course will welcome the world’s best to the Pacific Northwest for an exciting week of championship action.

The first historic part of U.S. Open Week 2015 is that the tournament is being staged in that part of the country for the first time, and Chambers Bay is hosting its very first major. This is a win for the public course, which has only been in operation since 2007, but its staging of the 2010 U.S. Amateur played a factor in the USGA’s decision to bring the Open to Washington state. The Northwest hasn’t played host to a major since the 1998 PGA Championship at Sahalee, so players and fans can both expect to view some spectacular scenery.

Another “first” for this year’s tournament is the first year of a new TV broadcast partner. Fox Sports has exclusive rights to USGA events, after NBC was the longtime over-the-air broadcaster. Fox will have big shoes to fill when it comes to the production, and Joe Buck, Greg Norman will come under a lot of scrutiny over the four days, particularly if the broadcasts aren’t very crisp. This is the first golf Fox will have televised, so criticism from skeptics will be very similar from what was said when the network first acquired the NFL, among other properties. Norman does have experience, though, as a television analyst in the past, and Buck is an avid golf fan who will bring credible knowledge to the booth; it won’t be a scenario like when Gus Johnson was the top voice for soccer.

With these “firsts” already set in stone, is 2015 the year when the stars finally align for Phil Mickelson, and “Lefty” wins his first U.S. Open? Some of his runner-up finishes have been iconic in the sport’s history; the scene at hole #18 following Payne Stewart’s win at Pinehurst in 1999; the collapse on #18 at Winged Foot; the despair after coming up short at Merion two years ago (before recovering to win the Open Championship). Golf fans have seen many of Mickelson’s highs and lows; a win this week would see him finally reach that coveted group of golfers with career grand slams. This is likely not his last chance to win this major, but it’s arguably his best chance, on a new course, with a new broadcaster looking for that tournament-defining moment.

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