U.S. Open east-west rotation includes a return to Pinehurst - WRALSportsFan.com
— The USGA announced three sites for the U. S. Open on Wednesday, including a return to Pinehurst No. 2. It effectively alternates the U. S. Open between the East Coast and prime-time TV of California for at least a seven-year stretch. “Pinehurst has elevated itself to one of the great and historic places in golf in this country,” said Thomas J. O’Toole Jr. , USGA president. Open will go to The Country Club in 2022, the course outside Boston that was the scene of perhaps the most important golf championship in American history. Curtis Strange won the last U. S. Open in Brookline in 1988. The last big event there was the Ryder Cup in 1999 that featured the great American comeback under captain Ben Crenshaw. The newcomer is an old classic — the North Course at Los Angeles Country Club, which gets the U. S. Open in 2023. It will be the first time the U. S. Open is held in Los Angeles since Ben Hogan won at Riviera in 1948. LA North is on the other side... And it will be great to take the U. S. Open to the second-largest city in the country. Pinehurst No. 2 in North Carolina gets its fourth U. S. Open in 2024 as it becomes a regular part of the U. S. Open rotation. Martin Kaymer won in 2014, and Michelle Wie won a week later when the USGA played the men's and women's Opens in back-to-back week. Source: www.wralsportsfan.com
