Long lines greet U.S. Open spectators ... but they don't seem to mind

UNIVERSITY PLACE, Wash. -- An estimated 30,000 people attended the first round Thursday of the 115th U.S. Open at Chambers Bay and many were greeted by long lines at the two parking lots for shuttle service.

Sally Hersman didn't want to miss a single swing of the championship and arrived at the Puyallup fairgrounds at 4 a.m. to get in line for a shuttle bus.

Hersman said, "It’s very exciting. It’s cool that it’s in the Seattle area here in Washington ... to have something this caliber here."

Long lines began to grow a couple hours later, forcing many people to wait for more than a half-hour before catching a shuttle but people didn't seem to mind.

Mike Both drove all the way from Vancouver for this.

Both said, "I feel like a kid at Christmas again. I couldn’t sleep. Yesterday at work I was thinking I don’t want this day to come because I don’t want it to end either."

Neighbors of the course in University Place were expecting the worst traffic they had ever seen.

Mark Spillman lives a few hundred yards from Chambers Bay and he says he has been pleasantly surprised with how things have gone so far.

"It hasn’t really been an issue at all," he said.