The USGA on Wednesday extended it recent streak of announcing bulks of tournaments at “anchor” sites when it awarded six future championships to Pebble Beach Golf Links—three U.S. Opens and three U.S. Women’s Opens.
Pebble Beach is one of the USGA’s most iconic venues, having hosted 13 championships, including six U.S. Opens. The U.S. Women’s Open is scheduled for the Monterey Peninsula in 2023, and the USGA already had awarded the 2027 U.S. Open to Pebble. It last hosted the 2019 U.S. Open that was won by Gary Woodland.
Farther into the future, Pebble Beach will host the 2032, 2037 and 2044 U.S. Opens, and it will stage the 2035, 2040 and 2048 U.S. Women’s Opens.
Additionally, the USGA announced that it would hold the U.S. Senior Open and U.S. Women’s Senior Open in back-to-back weeks at Spyglass Hill in Pebble Beach in 2030.
The latest move follows the announcements that Oakmont Country Club in Pennsylvania, Oaklands Hills Country Club in Michigan and the Pinehurst Resort & Country Club in North Carolina would also serve as “anchor” sites, with multiple USGA championships set to be played.
In March, the USGA announced eight championships for Oakland Hills, including the 2034 and 2051 U.S. Opens. Last August, while the U.S. Amateur was being played at Oakmont, it was awarded seven future events, including the 2028 U.S. Women’s Open, and the U.S. Open in 2033, 2042 and 2049. In September 2020, the USGA identified its first “anchor site” when Pinehurst was given four additional U.S. Opens in addition to the previously scheduled Open there in 2024.
In September 2019, then-USGA CEO Mike Davis told Golf Digest, “It’s pretty clear that we love Pebble Beach, Pinehurst, Oakmont and Shinnecock. Those four meet all our criteria: They’re great tests of golf, they set up logistically either very well or well enough, and—being honest—we’re going to make money when we go there. We’re a nonprofit, but the U.S. Open financially supports everything else we do—all our other championships and all the golf programs we sponsor—among other things.”
Shinnecock, which has hosted five U.S. Opens, is set to stage the 2026 U.S. Open, but it has yet to be identified as a future “anchor” site.
2022: The Country Club, Brookline, Mass.
2023: Los Angeles Country Club, Los Angeles
2024: Pinehurst No. 2, Pinehurst, N.C.
2025: Oakmont Country Club, Oakmont, Pa.
2026: Shinnecock Hills Country Club, Southampton, N.Y.
2027: Pebble Beach Golf Links, Pebble Beach, Calif.
2030: Merion Golf Club, Ardmore, Pa.