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THE GOG BLOG by RORY SPEARS, Editor and Director of Content. Follow Rory to the US Open at Erin Hills, and on Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter @GogBlogGuy

(Writing from Gino’s East Pizzeria, Rosemont, IL. YUM !)

WHO KNEW, I didn’t know the US Open trophy loved Chicago Style Deep Dish Pizza. On Monday the US Open trophy stopped into Gino’s East for lunch, over in Rosemont.

After all it was a busy day for the trophy that had flown in from Far Hills, New Jersey to O’Hare and had already stopped in Chicago for a quick TV appearance. Before heading back downtown to huddle with some writers and another TV show or two, the U.S. Open trophy (and that’s it’s real name) stopped off for pizza. Chicago Style.

THE US OPEN TROPHY stands out looking over Erin Hills, where in June the worlds top golfers will compete for the honor of holding it up high, and maybe share a beverage with it.

But before the trophy heads off to Wisconsin on Tuesday, it had to stop in Chicago before it went to the city of Milwaukee and the town of Erin.

See it seems, that the U.S. Open trophy decided that it had been way to long, since it spent a week at Olympia Fields in 2003, and it just missed the windy city.

But it wanted to send a message to the Chicago area golfers that this June, the U.S. Open makes a rare Midwest appearance. Just northwest of Milwaukee Wisconsin, but yet an easy drive nonetheless. Which is why you need to go, and better yet, you still can.

By the end of June the US Open trophy will go here, to a far far away land called Long Island and a club called Shinnecock Hills, where the trophy has a history.

This U.S. Open is not one of those events that sells out in five minutes, so you the golf fan does not need to go see your ticket broker just to get in.

It will not cost you more than a full set of new clubs to enjoy Erin Hills. It might even be less to get into Erin Hills, than you will spend on a dozen premium golf balls in some pro shops.

There is not a great amount of tickets left, but there are a few tickets for every day of championship week, still waiting for you to putt them into your pocket.

In between enjoying the pizza and all the great food at Gino’s East, I did catch up with Erin Hills Championship Manager Eric Steimer and USGA Senior Curator/ and USGA Museum Historian Michael Trostel. Steimer speaks on Erin Hills and Trostel on US Open past history and what types of golf history could be made at Erin Hills this year.

Click here to hear the interview with Eric Steimer and Michael Trostel.

It’s less than 100 days to the 2017 US Open, get your tickets today, a great Mothers Day or Fathers Day gift. See USGA.org/tickets or visit usopen.com for more information.