In advance of this week’s US Open, the reviews of Chambers Bay, the site of this year’s national championship, have been coming in fast and furious.

Ryan Palmer was one of the first PGA Tour players to weigh in on Chambers Bay, criticizing the golf course as well as the way USGA executive director Mike Davis plans to have it set up.

“As far as the greens are concerned, it’s not a championship golf course — not with the way some of the greens are and the pin placements they can put out there,” Palmer said. “[Davis’] idea of tee boxes is ridiculous. That’s not golf. I don’t care what anybody says. It will get a lot of bad press from the players. It is a joke. I don’t understand it. I just don’t know why they would do it.”

In some cases, the reviewers had not even seen the golf course before making their assessments. In a sense, Chambers Bay — an 8-year-old course built in an old quarry on the Puget Sound just south of Tacoma, Wash. — is like a new restaurant that has been reviewed before it has served its first meal.

“The reports back [from fellow players] are it’s a complete farce,” said Ian Poulter, who had not yet been to the course. “I guess someone has to win.”

Henrik Stenson, who walked the course, called it “a tricked-up links course.’’

Davis, who is in charge of course setup, ruffled a lot of players’ feathers when he said this last month:

“I would contend that there is no way — no way — a player would have success here at Chambers Bay unless he really studies the golf course and learns it. The idea of coming in and playing two practice rounds and having your caddie just walk it and using your yardage book, that person’s done [and] will not win the US Open.”

“We’ll play for second,” former US Open champion Webb Simpson said sarcastically in response to Davis’ claim.

“What’s Mike Davis’ handicap?” Rory McIlroy asked.

For Robert Trent Jones Jr., the architect of Chambers Bay, the chatter plays like the soothing sounds of a symphony. The more the players bellyache about the layout — a course Jones calls perhaps his proudest accomplishment as a course architect — it’s like turning up the volume to the beautiful music inside the artist’s head.

Every time Jones hears or reads about a player criticizing his golf course, it is as if he’s just birdied one of the holes himself.

“It is the field against the course, and the people who created the course and maintain and set up the course are their opponents,’’ Jones told The Post. “So when you look at it, myself and Mike Davis are like goalkeepers. I’m the composer, Mike Davis is the conductor and the players will play the music.’’

In essence, Chambers Bay is the concert hall where this US Open will be played.

The fact it is new and — with its links-style turf and strategy — breaks the mold of the typical US Open venues is part of what has some players’ bright-colored golf slacks in a bundle.

Asked if he sees the complaints as constructive, Jones said, “It’s not constructive, it’s destructive — for themselves.’’

“This is a new work and they’re not comfortable with it, because they haven’t seen it before,’’ Jones said. “I saw Tiger [Woods] on the course for two days. Phil Mickelson has been out here. Where are the guys who are complaining? They should be out here. I believe that the players should just hunker down and play … put on their big-boy britches and play.’’

Jack Nicklaus always said he loved to listen to fellow players complain about a golf course because he figured for every one who did, it was one less person he would have to beat that week.

“Somebody’s name is going to be on the trophy,” Nicklaus said at last week’s Memorial. “[The course] isn’t supposed to suit your game, you are supposed to suit your game to the golf course.”

Geoff Ogilvy, one of the most introspective straight shooters on the PGA Tour, said, “It’s a massive advantage if you get your head in the right place before you go.”

Not all of the reviews of Chambers Bay have come with negative undertones. Some of the most positive feedback has come from Mickelson and Woods, two of the players who made pre-tournament trips to Chambers Bay to practice.

“I think it’s wonderful,’’ Mickelson said. “It’s not going to be your typical US Open, hit and hack out of tough. You’re going to be able to control it much more like British Opens than I’ve ever seen, where there’s a lot of room [to hit it] and a lot of firm fairway cut.’’

Mickelson and Woods, who are notorious for their pre-tournament preparation before major championships, fully subscribed to Davis’ warning to the players that they need to see the course before tournament week.

“When Mike says something like that, you’ve got to pay attention,’’ Woods said. “We got out there and it was like, ‘Oh my God, there’s so many different options here.’ You have to know.’’

Said Mickelson: “The first time you play it, you don’t know, so I can see why the first impression isn’t favorable for some. But I think the more you play it, the more you like it. The first time you play it, it’s like St. Andrews. You don’t know where to go, you don’t know what mounds do what to the ball.

“I look at Chambers Bay as like a modern-day links golf course up to scale on today’s distance and modern-day technology.”

As the world’s best players descend on Chambers Bay this week for the season’s second major championship, there surely will be more positive and negative opinions delivered on the controversial course.

“If you design a golf course that every player loves, you have failed miserably; you’ve built a boring golf course,’’ said Jay Blasi, who was a part of Jones’ team and was the on-site project manager for the building of the course.

“I love to get in their heads, and so does Mike Davis,’’ Jones said. “At the end of the day, who’s going to win? I think golf will win, and I think our course will win in that it’s a new paradigm. I know this is a masterwork. I’ve done my work. Cinderella is at the ball.’’