Pinehurst area golf courses have been hosting US Open Golf Championships since 1969, when the famed Pinehurst # 2 course hosted the US Amateur Open. The US Women’s Amateur was held on the same Donald Ross-designed course in 1989.

The first professional USGA tournament hosted in Pinehurst was held in 1994, when Simon Hobday won the US Senior Open on Pinehurst # 2. US Women’s Open championships were held at Pine Needles Golf Course, another Ross design, in 1996 and 2001, with Annika Sorenstam and Karrie Webb winning those events. In one of the most exciting, and now nostalgic men’s events ever held, Payne Stewart won the 1999 men’s US Open championship, defeating Phil Mickelson on the final hole of Pinehurst # 2. In 2005, Michael Campbell shot a final-round 69 to best Tiger Woods by two strokes.

These US Open tournaments were so successful, that the USGA has already scheduled two future championships on Pinehurst area golf courses:

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