PHILADELPHIA - A former United States Golf Association employee has been charged in a scheme to embezzle funds from the unauthorized sale of U.S.
Open Championship tickets, Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced Tuesday.According to a statement released by Williams, Robert Fryer, 39, of Perkasie, Pennsylvania, faces conspiracy, wire fraud, and mail fraud charges.Fryer allegedly used his position ahead of the 2013 U.S.
Open held at the Merion Golf Club in Ardmore, Pennsylvania, through the 2019 U.S. Open held at the Pebble Beach Golf Links in Pebble Beach, California, to obtain 23,000 tickets that he sold to third-party ticket brokers for nearly $1 million.