The OIympic Club to Host 2030 U.S. Women’s Amateur

The Olympic Membership has been chosen by the USGA because the host web site for the 2030 U.S. Girls’s Novice Championship. The membership has beforehand hosted 11 USGA championships, principally not too long ago the 2021 U.S. Girls’s Open received by Yuka Saso, and it’ll host the one hundred and twenty fifth U.S. Novice in 2025.

“The Olympic Membership has produced among the most memorable USGA championship moments, and we’re thrilled to have the ability to present this unimaginable stage for the primary time to the very best feminine amateurs on the earth,” stated Mark Hill, USGA senior managing director, Championships. “The members at The Olympic Membership have at all times been such staunch supporters of the USGA and its championships, and can little question assist us conduct a world-class championship as soon as once more.”

The membership’s Lake Course has beforehand held three U.S. Amateurs (1958, 1981, 2007) and 5 U.S. Opens, together with Jack Fleck’s beautiful three-stroke playoff victory over Ben Hogan in 1955 and Billy Casper’s four-stroke playoff win over Arnold Palmer in 1966. Webb Simpson (2012), Lee Janzen (1998) and Scott Simpson (1987) every additionally produced come-from-behind U.S. Open victories.

In 2021, Saso defeated Nasa Hataoka in a three-hole playoff to develop into the primary feminine to hoist a USGA trophy at The Olympic Membership. The membership will develop into simply the fifth in historical past to host the U.S. Open, U.S. Girls’s Open, U.S. Novice and U.S. Girls’s Novice, becoming a member of Atlanta Athletic Membership, Baltusrol Golf Membership, Pinehurst Resort & Nation Membership and Pebble Seashore Golf Hyperlinks, which is able to be a part of the listing when it hosts the U.S. Girls’s Open Offered by ProMedica in 2023.

“We’re thrilled to companion with the USGA to convey one other championship occasion to The Olympic Membership,” stated Paul O’Driscoll, president of The Olympic Membership. “This dedication builds on the goodwill the membership shared with the USGA once we hosted the U.S. Girls’s Open final 12 months, selling ladies’s golf at an unprecedented degree. Our membership seems to be ahead to celebrating these wonderful athletes with a incredible occasion in 2030.”

The Olympic Membership board not too long ago accredited plans to revive the Lake Course with architect Gil Hanse, a challenge which can be accomplished in 2023.

NCGA Corridor of Famers Juli Inkster and Kay Cockerill are each a number of U.S. Girls’s Novice champions. Inkster profitable the title three straight years (1980-82) and Cockerill two in a row (1986-87).