The USGA announced three sites for the US Open late last month, including a return to Pinehurst No 2. It effectively alternates the US Open between the East Coast and prime-time TV of California for at least a seven-year stretch.
The US 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. It's where Francis Ouimet won a play-off over British titans Harry Vardon and Ted Ray. The upset put golf on the front pages of newspapers.
Curtis Strange won the last US 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 US Open in 2023. It will be the first time the US Open is held in Los Angeles since Ben Hogan won at Riviera in 1948.
LA North is near Beverly Hills. George C Thomas redesigned the course in 1927, and Gil Hanse restored it five years ago.
"We're in for a real treat," USGA executive director Mike Davis said. "It will be a wide US Open. The course will have generous fairways, and it will be firm and fast. And it will be great to take the US Open to the second-largest city in the country."
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