USGA, Pebble Beach open important door for women's golf

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USGA, Pebble Beach open important door for women's golf

by Randall Mell October 24. 2017

Another important door opened to women in golf Tuesday.

The USGA announced that Pebble Beach Golf Links will host the U.S. Women’s Open for the first time in 2023.

Yes, Pebble Beach is a facility open to the public on a daily basis, but this is different. This is a major championship. This is women getting to play their national championship on one of the most historic venues in the game.

“It’s great news,” Juli Inkster, a two-time U.S. Women’s Open champion from Northern California, told GolfChannel.com. “It’s great for women’s golf. It’s great anytime we can play historic courses like this.

“I wish it would have happened a while ago, but now we have the U.S. Women’s Open at the Olympic Club [in San Francisco in four years] and Pebble Beach in ’23. That’s two West Coast golf courses with history, and we are going to be a part of that.”



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PEBBLE BEACH GOLF LINKS TO HOST 2023 U.S. WOMEN’S OPEN AND 2027 U.S. OPEN CHAMPIONSHIPS

Topic: October 24, 2017 US-WOMENS-OPEN PRESS-RELEASE

"Venue to host its first U.S. Women’s Open Championship, seventh U.S. Open"

FAR HILLS, N.J. (October 24, 2017) – The USGA today announced Pebble Beach Golf Links as the site for the 2023 U.S. Women’s Open and 2027 U.S. Open Championships, the 14th and 15th USGA championships in the course’s storied history.

Pebble Beach, which is already scheduled to host the 2018 U.S. Amateur and 2019 U.S. Open Championships, will host the 78th U.S. Women’s Open – and its first – from June 1-4, 2023. The 127th U.S. Open – the seventh at Pebble Beach – will be contested June 17-20, 2027.

The legendary course on the Monterey Peninsula, designed by Jack Neville and Douglas Grant and opened in 1919, has produced several of the game’s memorable moments in its previous five U.S. Opens. Jack Nicklaus’s 1-iron tee shot that struck the flagstick in 1972, Tom Watson’s chip-in to thwart Nicklaus in 1982, Tom Kite’s pitch-in en route to victory in 1992 and Tiger Woods’ record 15-stroke victory in 2000 are all stamped in the game’s lore.

“We are incredibly proud to bring the U.S. Women’s Open to Pebble Beach for the first time,” said Diana Murphy, president of the USGA. “The USGA is committed to bringing our championships to golf’s greatest venues and the opportunity to have the best players in the world, female and male, compete at this iconic course will provide a fantastic showcase of the game. Our friends at the Pebble Beach Company have always been wonderful partners and we are excited for all of our upcoming championships with them.”


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www.lpga.com/news/2017-pebble-beach-golf-links-to-host-2013-us-womens-open