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By Andrew Both CHARLOTTE, North Carolina, May 14 (Reuters) - American Ryan Moore says there is a "90 percent chance" that next month's U.S. Open will be won by a player who does not arrive early at the relatively unknown venue, Chambers Bay. The world number 32 disagrees with a comment recently made by a top U.S. Golf Association (USGA) official that any player who gets in only a couple of practice rounds will have no chance of winning the June 15-18 event. Moore lives in Puyallup, only a few miles (kilometres) from Chambers Bay in Washington State and he is one of the few PGA Tour players familiar with the course, a new links-style layout adjacent to Puget Sound. USGA executive director Mike Davis said last month: "I would contend that there is no way, no way, a player will have success here at Chambers Bay unless he really studies the golf course and learns it.
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