Diving into the history books
In the June issue of GCM, I authored a story about superintendent Craig Currier (pictured here in blue), the crew at Bethpage (N.Y.) State Park and their efforts in preparing the Black Course for the 2009 U.S. Open (Read it here). In that story, I wrote a statement that identified Currier and Paul Jett, CGCS at Pinehurst (N.C.) No. 2 as the only "working superintendents" to have hosted multiple U.S. Opens at the same course. The entire paragraph read:
The phrasing in that paragraph was carefully considered. My first stab at it identified Currier and Jett as the only two superintendents to have ever hosted multiple Opens at the same course, but I quickly decided that wouldn't work because I simply had no way of proving whether that was the case or not (I suspected it wasn't). But I did know that they were the only supers who were still on the job that had pulled off that feat, so I specifically narrowed the description to "working superintendents." Even considered going with a more restrictive description like "currently working superintendents," but decided the latter would suffice. "Working superintendents" it was.