If you arrive early or wait until late, you can catch Sebonack in a quiet mood.

She’s beautiful then, turbulent fairways rolling against an apparently flat Great Peconic Bay. The greens match the fairways, with grand surges roiling up from the depths, like the waves of a storm. It’s during the daylight hours when this new-ish golf course shows its teeth, allowing wind and other elements to torment golfers.

Let us not say that Sebonack met its match in a young woman from Korea. Let us not say that Inbee Park “beat this monster,” as Ben Hogan once proclaimed at a long-ago U.S. Open. Let us say, however, that Inbee Park exudes the calm of Sebonack during early morning and late evening hours. Park certainly displayed her serenity during four days that got the better of her counterparts, on the way to her second U.S. Open title and her third-straight major championship victory of 2013.

Inbee Park.

Let’s qualify that notion: Park exuded confidence when she was on the club’s grounds. During a post-round interview on Sunday, however, she said:

“I was really nervous last night at home. Everywhere I was really nervous, but as soon as I was on the golf course, it somehow made me really feel calm and somehow it really made me concentrate on golf.”

For the record, Park made 18 birdies during four rounds at Sebonack. She finished the tournament at 8-under (a 288 total), four shots adrift of runner-up I.K. Kim. For the record, Park trailed first-round leader Ha-Neul Kim by one stroke on Thursday evening, then took over first place on Friday morning, never relinquishing her hold on the lead. Although she faced no serious challenge on Sunday, Park put the tournament away with birdies on Nos. 9 and 10 to stake herself to a six-stroke advantage.

If you know those horse racing fans who appear from the shadows when a horse wins the first two legs of the Triple Crown — expect to see and hear their golfing counterparts through the beginning of August. It’s then that the British Open, the fourth of five female major championships, will be conducted over the Old Course at St. Andrews. If there’s no weather, Park will be installed as the prohibitive favorite. If there is weather, given her performance at Sebonack over a tempestuous weekend, she will also be installed as the betting-woman’s choice.

Inbee Park.

There were others at Sebonack that gave chase to Park. Ha-Neul Kim had her struggles, but survived through the weekend and finished in the top 25. Despite an opening 71, world No. 2-ranked Stacy Lewis never found the groove she sought and tied for 42^nd place. Perennial U.S. Open contenders Paula Creamer (the 2010 champion) and Angela Stanford finished in a tie for fourth place with Englishwoman Jodi Ewart Shadoff. Brittany Lang and Jessica Korda tied for seventh place, with Shanshan Feng and Brittany Lincicome rounding out the top 10 in a ninth-place tie.

You’ll read other stories about Park’s rise, fall and rise in professional golf. You’ll read about her fiancée and swing coach, and his calming presence in her life. You’ll speculate on Michelle Wie’s withdrawal and the mid-round firing of Jessica Korda’s caddy (click here to read the whole story). And yet, the week’s story can be distilled down to two principal characters, Inbee Park and the Sebonack Golf Club. You know plenty about the former; here’s a bit about the later.

Sebonack is less than 10 years old and is the product of the most unanticipated of partnerships. Owner Michael Pascucci found a way to bring Jack Nicklaus and Tom Doak together to design a golf course. This would be akin to Jackson Pollack and Frank Lloyd Wright collaborating on… well, anything. Nicklaus believes in heroic golf shots, triumphant carries over treacherous hazards and other stuff you find on typical pro tour courses. Doak is enraptured with the ground game, the wrinkled, rumpled look of the old countries, and the maddening internal contours of putting surfaces that putt the rolled ball on equal footing with the ones of great and distant flight.

Sebonack Golf Club.

Sebonack exhibits the elements of each noteworthy architect/designer. It has its moments where only a shot with sufficient volitation will win the day. It presents many other scenes in which multiple scenarios reveal themselves to the astute golfer. Inbee Park played glorious high and soft shots into many greens; she also fired low, boring punch shots through the wind, against an inclination that welcomed a purely planned approach.

On a golf course that combined the finest visions of two unique and disparate golfing geniuses, Inbee Park honored both and earned the respect of both with a command performance. It was a grand debut by Sebonack and a tour de force from the top-ranked female player in the world. In one of her final post-round quotes, Inbee Park revealed the champion’s humility for which everyone strives:

“They can beat me, I think. There are so many players who are playing such good golf out here on the LPGA Tour. Yeah, I have been through situations where I thought I wouldn’t beat this person, but just keep working hard and keep looking at your chances and I think you’ll get there.”