Inverness Club,
a Donald Ross designed golf course which opened in 1903, is
hosting its seventh USGA Championship and second U.S. Senior
Open. Previously the Club hosted four U.S. Opens (1920,
1931, 1957 and 1979), the 2003 U.S. Senior Open and the 1973
U.S. Amateur. Inverness has also hosted the 1986 and 1993
PGA Championships.
Fans will be able to see in person in 2011 some of the great
names in golf – champions whose careers and accomplishments
we all have followed with great interest through the years:
Watson, Couples, Azinger, Norman, Perry, Crenshaw, Langer,
Lietzke, Zoeller, O’Meara, Cook, Haas, Mize, Stadler, Kite,
Lehman, Tway, Funk, Roberts, Pavin, Jacobsen, Calcavecchia .
. . are all eligible to compete and attempt to capture yet
another significant piece of golf history here at Inverness
Club.

Recent U.S. Senior Open Championships were played at The
Broadmoor Golf Club in Colorado Springs, Colorado in 2008
and Crooked Stick Golf Club in Carmel, Indiana in 2009. The
2010 U.S. Senior Open was hosted by Sahalee Country Club
in Sammamish, Washington.
During Championship Week July 25-31, Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday are practice round days for the players with the
four rounds of competition (72 holes stroke play) beginning
on Thursday and concluding on Sunday. A cut to the low 60
players and ties plus anyone within 10 shots of the leader
is made after Friday’s second round.
Please refer back to this website as more information about
the Championship is made available.