O'Hair said the club will add 20 yards to the par-4 No. 18, too, turning a tasty birdie chance into a tight, bunkered, 460-yard, risk-reward finisher.
"That's going to make it a completely different hole," O'Hair said.
It will be a significantly different course.
"I'm definitely looking forward to it," O'Hair said. "I know a lot of the people in Philadelphia will be, too. It's going to be fantastic. I'm excited to be a part of it, where I live."
Next year, it will be Philadelphia-area kids benefiting from the Tiger Woods Foundation. The foundation, according to its annual report, raised more than $2 million at the 2008 AT & T and awarded grants to more than 50 youth organizations in the D.C. area.
Next year, it will be Philadelphia-area fans and as many as 1,500 volunteers watching Woods and Camilo Villegas and K.J. Choi and Jim Furyk practice on the Tuesday before the Wednesday pro-am. McLaughlin said the AT & T might cap attendance near 30,000 per day if ticket sales get out of hand.
Furyk has suspended his annual 1-day Exelon Challenge event to avoid competing with Woods for local sponsors. Which makes sense.
Next year, and the year after, will be Tiger time in the Philadelphia area.
Aronimink hopes it is just the beginning of even bigger things. *
