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Pinehurst No. 2 will host the 2024 U.S. Open.
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Whereas the U.S. Open and U.S. Girls’s Open typically seize most of its headlines, every year the US Golf Affiliation places out a menu of championships as broad as any diner’s — and in contrast to a number of the diners we frequent, its fare is all the time appetizing.
The programs, whether or not trendy or basic, are all the time five-star affairs, and there’s one thing for everybody: female and male; juniors and seniors and everybody in between (together with 25-and-older mid-ams, so folks with jobs don’t all the time need to tackle school studs majoring in golf); able-bodied and (since 2022) adaptive, showcasing the sport’s bettering inclusivity, one thing that’s lengthy been on the USGA’s agenda.
The 2024 season seems to be positive to be one other winner that can garner glowing evaluations from opponents and followers alike. For those who can’t qualify for a championship your self — the entry necessities might be discovered at usga.org — attend one and get a style of the motion.
U.S. Girls’s Novice 4-Ball
Might 11-15
Oak Hills CC, San Antonio, Texas
First performed: 2015
2023 winner: Gianna Clemente & Avery Zweig
Do you know: The host course, designed by A.W. Tillinghast (who competed in each the U.S. Open and the U.S. Novice championships), is amongst considered one of solely a handful of programs wherever on the earth by which every of the nines ends with a par-3 gap.
U.S. Novice 4-Ball
Might 25-29
Philadelphia Cricket Membership, Philadelphia, Pa.
First performed: 2015
2023 winners: Aaron Du & Sampson Zheng
Do you know: Drew “Sleezy” Stoltz, co-host of GOLF’s weekly “SubPar” podcast with 2007 U.S. Novice champion Colt Knost, completed as runner-up prior to now two U.S. Novice 4-Balls with accomplice Drew Kittleson.
U.S. Girls’s Open
Might 30-June 2
Lancaster CC, Lancaster, Pa.
First performed: 1946
2023 winner: Allisen Corpuz
Previous winners of observe: Babe Didrikson Zaharias (1948, ’50, ’54), Mickey Wright (1958-’59, ’61, ’64), Annika Sorenstam (1995-’96, 2006), Se Ri Pak (1998)
Do you know: Lancaster CC made In Gee Chun, the 2015 USWO champion right here, an honorary member; she comes again yearly to host a charity golf occasion to lift cash for native college students to proceed their secondary schooling.
U.S. Open
June 13-16
Pinehurst Resort & CC (No. 2), Village of Pinehurst, N.C.
First performed: 1895
2023 winner: Wyndham Clark
Previous winners of observe: Walter Hagen (1914-’19), Ben Hogan (1948, ’50-’51, ’53), Lee Trevino (1968, ’71), Ernie Els (1994, ’97)
Do you know: In 2029, Pinehurst No. 2 will repeat the distinctive feat the course pulled off in 2014, specifically, internet hosting the U.S. Open (received in ’14 by Martin Kaymer) and U.S. Girls’s Open (Michelle Wie) on consecutive weeks.
U.S. Senior Open
June 27-30
Newport CC, Newport, R.I.
First performed: 1980
2023 winner: Bernhard Langer
Previous winners of observe: Gary Participant (1987-’88), Jack Nicklaus (1991-’93), Hale Irwin (1998, 2000), Colin Montgomerie (2014)
Do you know: Defending champion Langer will hope to increase the document for oldest winner he set final yr at Wisconsin’s SentryWorld at age 65, smashing the earlier mark by eight years; the victory additionally made him the winningest participant in PGA Tour Champions historical past.
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U.S. Adaptive Open
July 8-10
Sand Creek Station, Newton, Kans.
First performed: 2022
2023 winners: Kipp Popert (males’s general), Ryanne Jackson (ladies’s general)
Do you know: The inaugural championship got here 25 years after the USGA revealed “A Modification of the Guidelines of Golf for Golfers with Disabilities,” which cowl circumstances golfers with disabilities could encounter, permitting for equitable play with and towards all different opponents, together with these not disabled.
U.S. Ladies’ Junior
July 15-20
El Caballero CC, Tarzana, Calif.
First performed: 1949
2023 winner: Kiara Romero
Previous winners of observe: Hollis Stacy (1969-’71), Nancy Lopez (1972, ’74), Inbee Park (2002), Lexi Thompson (2008)
Do you know: The champion receives an invite to the next yr’s Augusta Nationwide Girls’s Novice along with exemptions into the 2024 and 2025 U.S. Girls’s Novice, the 2025 U.S. Girls’s Open, and all future U.S. Ladies’ Juniors for which she is age-eligible.
U.S. Junior Novice
July 22-27
Oakland Hills CC, Bloomfield Hills, Mich.
First performed: 1948
2023 winner: Bryan Kim
Previous winners of observe: Johnny Miller (1964), David Duval (1989), Tiger Woods (1991-’93), Jordan Spieth (2009, ’11)
Do you know: Earlier winners of championships at Oakland Hills, aka “The Monster,” reads like a who’s who of golf royalty, together with (however not restricted to): Glenna Collett Vare, Ben Hogan, Gary Participant, Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and Padraig Harrington.
U.S. Senior Girls’s Open
August 1-4
Fox Chapel GC, Pittsburgh, Pa.
First performed: 2018
2023 winner: Trish Johnson
Previous winners of observe: Laura Davies (2018), Helen Alfredsson (2019), Annika Sorenstam (2021)
Do you know: In a critical mic-drop second at Fox Chapel, native hero and USGA legend Carol Semple Thompson poured in a 27-foot birdie putt in Sunday singles to clinch the 2002 Curtis Cup Match for the USA over Nice Britain & Eire in her twelfth and ultimate Cup look.
U.S. Girls’s Novice
August 5-11
Southern Hills CC, Tulsa, Okla.
First performed: 1895
2023 winner: Megan Scofill
Previous winners of observe: Marion Hollins (1921), Patty Berg (1938), Juli Inkster (1980-’82), Lydia Ko (2012)
Do you know: Final yr’s ultimate was an all-SEC affair between native Floridians, with Auburn College’s Scofill taking down convention rival Latanna Stone of LSU 4 and three; the prior final Girls’s Am winner from the Sunshine State was Morgan Pressel in 2005.
U.S. Novice
August 12-18
Hazeltine Nationwide GC, Chaska, Minn.
First performed: 1895
2023 winner: Nick Dunlap
Previous winners of observe: C.B. Macdonald (1895), Bobby Jones (1924-’25, ’27-’28, 30), Arnold Palmer (1954), Viktor Hovland (2018)
Do you know: Final yr’s champion, Dunlap, who in 2021 additionally received the U.S. Junior Novice, turned solely the second participant to do the Am-Junior Am double—becoming a member of Tiger Woods, who received three of every, with Junior Am titles in 1991-’93 adopted by Am triumphs in 1994-’96.
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U.S. Senior Novice
August 24-29
The Honors Course, Ooltewah, Tenn.
First performed: 1955
2023 winner: Todd White
Previous winners of observe: O. Gordon Brewer Jr. (1994, ’96), Buddy Marucci (2008), Vinny Giles (2009)
Do you know: Almost a half-dozen siblings personal USGA titles, together with Senior Am winners Stan Lee (2007) and brother Louis (2011, beating Stan en route, in what’s believed to be the primary USGA match between brothers); John Richardson (1987) and son Kemp (2001, ’03) additionally made Senior Am titles a household affair.
Curtis Cup
August 30-September 1
Sunningdale GC, Sunningdale, England
First performed: 1932
2022 winner: United States
Do you know: The USA holds a commanding 31-8-3 lead on this historic rivalry; the successful level in its dominant 2022 triumph at Merion GC was secured by Rachel Kuehn—whose mom, Brenda Corrie Kuehn, a two-time Curtis Cupper herself, had carried out the identical feat within the 1998 Match on house soil.
U.S. Girls’s Mid-Novice
September 7-12
Brae Burn CC, West Newton, Mass.
First performed: 1987
2023 winner: Kimberly Dinh
Previous winners of observe: Carol Semple Thompson (1990), Ellen Port (1995-’96, 2000, ’11), Alissa Herron (1999), Meghan Bolger Stasi (2006-’07, ’10, ’12)
Do you know: Final yr’s titliest, Dinh, a chemical engineer with a PhD from MIT who performed school golf on the College of Wisconsin, turned the championship’s second left-handed winner; the primary, Julia Potter-Bobb (2013, ’16), was the additionally first-ever left-handed feminine USGA champion.
U.S. Senior Girls’s Novice
September 21-26
Broadmoor GC, Seattle, Wash.
First performed: 1962
2023 winner: Sarah Gallagher
Previous winners of observe: Carolyn Cudone (1968-’72), Alice Dye (1978-’79), Anne Quast Sander (1987, ’89-’90, ’93), Marlene Streit (1985, ’94, 2003)
Do you know: Cudone’s 5 straight Senior Girls’s Am titles is the feminine document for Most Consecutive USGA Championships Gained, Single Occasion; on the male facet, it’s three (Willie Anderson, U.S. Open; Carl F. Kauffmann, U.S. Novice Public Hyperlinks; Tiger Woods, U.S. Junior Novice and U.S. Novice).
U.S. Mid-Novice
September 21-26
Kinloch GC, Manakin-Sabot, Va.
First performed: 1981
2023 winner: Stewart Hagestad
Previous winners of observe: Jay Sigel (1983, ’85, ’87), Spider Miller (1996, ’98), Nathan Smith (2003, ’09-’10, ’12), Journey Kuehne (2007)
Do you know: A two-time USGA champion, Vinny Giles, helped discovered this yr’s host membership in 2001 and co-designed, with Lester George, the eponymous course that can alone host the championship’s 64-player match-play portion; close by Independence GC, a Tom Fazio creation, will co-host stroke-play qualifying.
