For the fourth year in a row, Malvern resident Gil Hanse, the renowned golf course architect, has joined the broadcast team at Fox Sports for the U.S. Open, writes Joe Juliano for the Philadelphia Inquirer.

“I always start the year off with the notion that I don’t want to throw up on national TV, and I don’t want to embarrass my kids,” said Hanse. “If I can accomplish both of those by Sunday evening, I’m in good shape.”

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Hanse’s role on the broadcasting team is to discuss Shinnecock Hills Golf Club in Southampton, N.Y., and its architecture and agronomy. It helps that Hanse is a big fan of the course.

“It’s just so special,” Hanse said. “It’s great in its designs, its history, its traditions. It’s kind of everything I believe in golf architecture. I love the width and the angles. I love the presentation, the aesthetic of this golf course, the sort of open landscape, the native grasses. That just fits what I think of when I think about a great golf course.”

Read more on Gil Hanse and the U.S. Open in the Philadelphia Inquirer here.

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