For a little state, Rhode Island is certainly playing a big role in competitive golf this month.
First comes the Northeast Amateur, a 72-hole stroke-play tourney being contested this week on the Donald Ross-designed Wannamoisett Country Club here, just east of Providence. Future PGA Tour stars Ben Crenshaw, Hal Sutton, David Duval, Dustin Johnson and Luke Donald made their competitive golf bones by winning this event, which was first contested in 1962. Past victors also include amateur icons Vinny Giles and Jay Sigel.
Then, there is the U.S. Senior Open, which is being staged June 27-30 at the Newport Country Club, one of five founding clubs of the United States Golf Association and the site of the first U.S. Open and U.S. Amateur in 1895 as well as the 1995 U.S. Amateur that Tiger Woods won and the 2006 U.S. Women’s Open, captured by another GOAT in Annika Sörenstam.
Those are a couple of big-time events, and it is quite fitting they are being held on two of the finest and most historic layouts in New England, if not the entire United States.
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