Oakmont named anchor site
As was expected, the United States Golf Association gave Oakmont Country Club a great honor Wednesday.
They named the course a U.S. Open anchor site, the second course to receive the honor, following Pinehurst Golf Club in North Carolina. The designation means a commitment from the USGA to return to Oakmont for several championship events over the next several years and decades.
On Wednesday, they announced several of those future dates.
Oakmont will host the U.S. Open in 2034, 2042 and 2049. It will host the Women’s U.S. Open in 2028 and 2038, the Walker Cup, which is a team competition between male amateur golfers, in 2036 and the U.S. Women’s Amateur in 2046. This is all in addition to the 2025 U.S. Open, which also will be at Oakmont.
“Becoming a US Open anchor site carries great meaning, a celebration and recognition of the history made here and the long-standing commitment to make history long into the future,” said Fred Perpall, the USGA executive committee and championship committee chair at the announcement news conference.
“Oakmont continues to test the best golfers in the world, and this commitment means we will bring the US Open to its storied layout with greater frequency. We are thankful to Oakmont for welcoming us and sharing in this day with us.
“Oakmont has previously hosted 16 USGA Championships, with nine US Opens among them. We’re thrilled to add to that number today.”
The 2025 U.S. Open will be the first at Oakmont since 2018, when Dustin Johnson won it. The 2028 Women’s U.S. Open will be the first at Oakmont since 2010, when Paula Creamer took home the title. The Walker Cup has never taken place at Oakmont.
“We at Oakmont couldn’t be happier to be hosting a number of USGA Championships through 2049,” said Oakmont president Ed Stack. “The relationship with Oakmont and the USGA goes back to the dates of our founding family, the Fownes family and the relationship they had and how important it was. So if Mr. Fownes was here today, he wouldn’t be happier, I suspect, with what we were able to announce today.
“When you think about Oakmont and Mr. Fownes, he was really a genius to build this golf course with express-written reason to conduct national championships, and he’d be so happy to know that the golf course he designed back in 1903 has been able to test the time all the way through 2049.”