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You'll like Tacoma
Friday, February 8th, 2008
Posted by Cole Cosgrove @ 05:34:02 am

You've got to get up pretty early in the morning to get a scoop like this.

The major golf tournament in 2015 is expected to draw 65,000 people a day and fill 10,000 hotel rooms for nearly a week, with an estimated economic impact of $100 million.

Is this the best thing that's ever happened to Tacoma?
My other question: Where's everyone going to sleep?

"It's like hosting the Super Bowl for four days in a row,” Pierce County Executive John Ladenburg told The News Tribune on Thursday.

"Bringing the U.S. Open here would be the biggest event in this area since the 1962 World's Fair," Ladenburg has said before.

So what's your hyperbolic comparison?

Quick: If we all start practicing really hard, maybe some of us can qualify to play in the tournament by the time it rolls around.

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