USGA heading to Sahalee
The USGA is bringing another national championship to the Great Northwest. Sahalee Club will host the 2010 US Senior Open. Here are all the details from a USGA press release:
Sahalee Country Club in the Seattle suburb of Sammamish, Wash., will host the 2010 U.S. Senior Open, the United States Golf Association has announced. The championship is scheduled from July 29-Aug. 1. It will be the first of the USGA’s three Open championships to be conducted in Washington.
Ted Robinson designed the original 18-hole course which opened in 1969. Rees Jones oversaw a redesign and renovations in 1996 in preparation for Sahalee’s role as host site for the 1998 PGA Championship.
Vijay Singh won that 1998 PGA Championship, the first of golf’s “majors” to be played in the Northwest since 1944, by two strokes over Steve Stricker. Four years later, Sahalee hosted the 2002 NEC World Golf Championship, won by Craig Parry.
I call this great news and encourage as many fans as possible to turn out for the event. It's time we showed the USGA that our region can support major championships and deserves to host a US Open in the future!
posted by Oregon Golf Adventures @ 12:50 PM
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