The USGA has also announced its intention to award the 2018 U.S. Amateur and 2019 U.S. Open The United States Golf Association has named Erin Hills, a daily-fee public golf course about 35 miles northwest of Milwaukee in the town of Erin, Wis., as the site of the 2017 U.S. Open.Championships to Pebble Beach (Calif.) Golf Links.
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Entry applications for the 2010 U.S. Open at Pebble Beach Golf Links, the U.S. Women’s Open at Oakmont Country Club and the U.S. Senior Open at Sahalee Country Club in Sammamish, Wash., are now online.
In the ensuing weeks, entry applications for the 10 amateur competitions conducted by the USGA, including the U.S. Amateur and U.S. Women’s Amateur, will also be available online. In 2009, 91 percent of all USGA applications were filed online.
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The USGA will implement its previously announced groove rules as a condition of competition for the 2010 U.S. Open, U.S. Women’s Open and U.S. Senior Open, starting with the sectional (final stage) qualifying events for each of the three championships.
The condition of competition regarding grooves will not be in effect at local (first stage) qualifying events for the 2010 U.S. Open Championship.
The USGA will adopt the condition of competition for U.S. Open local qualifying beginning in 2011 and for all other national championships and team competitions it conducts for amateur players no later than 2014, as originally indicated.
“We plan to adopt the condition of competition for all stages of Open qualifying in 2011, but 2010 will be a transitional year for the 9,000 players who typically try to qualify for the U.S. Open,” said Mike Davis, USGA senior director of rules and competitions.
“The important point is that any player who is one step from making it into any of the three Open championships will be playing with clubs that conform to this new condition of competition.”
Announced by the USGA and R&A in August 2008, the revisions to the Rules of Golf, which place new restrictions on golf club grooves, will go into effect starting Jan. 1, 2010. The regulations control the cross-sectional area of grooves on all clubs, with the exception of drivers and putters, and limit groove edge sharpness on clubs with lofts equal to or greater than 25 degrees (generally a standard 5-iron and above). The rules apply to clubs submitted to the USGA for conformance evaluation on or after Jan. 1, 2010.
The PGA Tour (including the Champions and Nationwide Tours), European PGA Tour and other members of the International Federation of PGA Tours, as well as the LPGA, intend to adopt this condition of competition at their tournaments beginning Jan. 1, 2010. The PGA of America and Augusta National Golf Club intend to adopt this condition of competition at the PGA Championship and Masters, respectively, next year as well.
Additional information about the new regulations on grooves, including technical specifications, may be found in the Equipment section of the USGA web site .
Questions regarding the groove regulations should be addressed to Dick Rugge, USGA senior technical director, via e-mail at drugge@usga.org
Questions regarding the condition of competition should be addressed to Mike Davis, USGA senior director of Rules and Competitions, via e-mail mdavis@usga.org
A question-and-answer document containing additional information about the condition of the USGA web site here.
Tim Madigan of Rio Rancho tied for 61st with a 3-over round in Day 2 of the U.S. Amateur Championship this afternoon at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Okla., but faced a 27-man player for the four remaining spots in the match-play field.
The two other Sun Country qualifiers, Matt Williams of Albuquerque and Guillermo Chavez of Clovis, faltered and did not advance to match play.
Madigan posted a 5-over 75 on Day 1 at Cedar Ridge Country Club and moved over to Southern Hills for Round 2 Tuesday afternoon, where he posted a trouble-free 1-under on the front, which moved him up more than 20 spots to about 16th place.
The back nine, however, was a horrifying slide of five bogeys and a single birdie. He shot a 4-over 39 to limp in at 3-over for the day. The USGA scheduled the playoff to begin at 7 a.m. CDT, starting on the 14th hole of Southern Hills.
Williams of Albuquerque, executive director of the Sun Country Amateur Golf Association, finished Monday’s round at 6-over in a tie for 114th, and was only two shots behind the cut line, but fell to 16-over after a second-day score of 78 and finished in a tie for 177th.
Chavez, the third Sun Country qualifier, finished with a two-day total of 81-82, which put him in a tie for 287th.
The difficulty and pressure of Day 2 was seen by dramatic slippage across the field. Leader after Round 2 was Tim Jackson of Germantown, Tenn., at even. He had started the day at 2-under.
The Golf Channel picks up TV coverage Wednesday. Matches continues until the field of 64 is reduced to two finalists on Sunday.
University of New Mexico Lobo golfer Jodi Ewart won a marathon match today in the first round of the U.S. Women’s Amateur at the Old Warson Country Club in St. Louis.
Ewart, who will be a senior at UNM in the fall, outlasted Mallory Fraiche of Metairie, La., 1 up in a competition that required 25 holes to complete.
Fraiche will be a senior at the University of Arkansas-Little Rock. Ewart was 1 down after making a double bogey 6 on the par-4 4th. She got it back to all square with a par on No. 7. Fraiche regained a 1 up lead at 12. It was all square again after Ewart won No. 15, and it stayed that way until the 25th hole. That’s when Ewart made birdie on the par-3 7th to advance to Thursday’s Round of 32.
Ewart was paired with Alexis Thompson of Coral Springs, Fla., in the Round of 32, set to begin at 7:10 a.m. Mountain Time Thursday. If Ewart wins that match, she advances to the round of 16 at 12:20 p.m. Mountain On Thursday. After Thursday, players play one match a day through the final match on Sunday.
The Golf Channel is picking up Thursday’s action from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Mountain.
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