In which American state is the Newport Country Club that hosted Golf's first US Open in 1895?
Newport Country Club Newport Country Club Newport Country Club, is a historic private golf club in the northeastern United States, located in Newport, Rhode Island. Founded in 1893, it hosted both the first U.S. Amateur Championship and the first U.S. Open in 1895. Theodore Havemeyer, a wealthy sportsman whose family owned the American Sugar Company, played the game of golf on a trip to Pau in the south of France in 1889 and returned to his summer home in Newport excited about its future. In 1890, he and his friends rented some property on the old Castle Hill Farm and played golf on
Newport Country Club of the United States Golf Association (USGA). In October 1895, Newport Country Club hosted both the first U.S. Amateur Championship and the in first U.S. Open. To this day, the U.S. Amateur champion is awarded the Havemeyer Trophy. In celebration of the centennial of those first two USGA events, the club hosted the U.S. Amateur in 1995, won by defending champion Tiger Woods. Eleven years later, it was the site of the U.S. Women's Open in 2006, won by Annika Sörenstam in an 18-hole In 2017, the USGA announced Newport will host the 41st U.S. Senior Open in June 2020.