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If you go to the 108th U.S. Open at Torrey Pines in the coming week and find yourself in one of those predictably long lines in the enormous merchandise pavilion, count the people in front of you. When you get to 11, stop. That would be your field for the inaugural U.S. Open in 1895.

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For months leading up to the 2008 U.S. Open at the Torrey Pines South Course, the USGA has been trying to get the word out to spectators that this is no ordinary event.