Shinnecock Hills Golf Club doesn’t have the official “anchor site” designation from the United States Golf Association that its iconic peers Oakmont, Pebble Beach, and Pinehurst boast.
But the U.S. Open is returning to the historic course in Southampton, N.Y., on Long Island, for a sixth time this week—and the USGA has no intention of taking Shinnecock out of its long-term championship rotation.
“We’re obviously coming back a lot,” USGA CEO Mike Whan told Front Office Sports.
Shinnecock—one of the five founding clubs of the USGA in 1895—is already scheduled to host the 2036 women’s and men’s U.S. Opens in consecutive weeks.
“Imagine this place for two weeks with the women’s and men’s back-to-back,” Whan said. “So, we think of anchor sites as places where we can invest, they can invest, and the local community can invest because they know we’re coming back for 30 years, and we’re going to host all kinds of championships.”
