As the U.S. Open coverage begins today with opening-round play live on ESPN, much has been written about the Pinehurst golf course and its radical redesign, which basically removes the rough from the edges of the fairway and replaces them with natural vegetation. Not to be critical – but I’ve done that with my front and back lawn for decades now, and never gotten any attention from it. Except from my neighbors, who insist on using the term “unsightly weeds” instead of “natural vegetation.”