U.S. Open

She was the "Jackie Robinson of tennis," said Billy Jean King as the first African American player and champion in international tennis. She later integrated women's professional golf.

After a long weather delay, and in front of a crowd cheering for his opponent, the World No. 1 took home the U.S. Open title. It's his 10th career major, and his third this year.

Robert Trent Jones, Jr., turned a former quarry — "kind of an ugly place," he says — into the Chambers Bay golf course. Now he hopes it represents the sport's future — and a challenge to golfers.

The Chambers Bay Golf Course in Washington State is almost all drought-resistant fescue grass, which is supposed to be brown in hot months.