Open: Insides the Ropes at Bethpage BlackTiger Woods has called the U. S. Open the most difficult national championship. With Open, John Feinstein goes behind the scenes to tell for the first time the full story of how the 2002 U. S. Open Championship came into being how a public course was transformed into one of the most difficult and surprising in the tournament's history, and how the greatest golfers in the world rose to its almost insurmountable challenges. The Black course at the