COURSES TO HAVE HELD THE MOST MAJORS (Men and Women) 89 Augusta National (Masters) 39 Mission Hills (Nabisco Dinah Shore) 33 The Old Course (Open, Women’s Open) 24 Prestwick (Open) 17 Muirfield (Open, Women’s Open) 16 Royal Lytham & St Annes (Open, Women’s Open); Royal Birkdale (Open, Women’s Open) 15 Oakmont (US Open & PGA, US Women’s Open); Royal St George’s (Open) 14 Royal Liverpool (Open, Women’s Open) 12 Baltusrol (US Open & PGA, US Women’s Open & PGA); Evian Resort (Evian Championship) 11 Royal Troon (Open, Women’s Open) 10 Carnoustie (Open, Women’s Open) 9 Winged Foot (US Open & PGA, US Women’s Open); Oakland Hills (US Open & PGA) 8 Pebble Beach (US Open & PGA, US Women’s Open); Southern Hills (US Open & PGA) Note: Mission Hills in California had 39 consecutive years hosting the Nabisco Dinah Shore (now Chevron Championship), from 1983 to 2022. The Evian Resort in France hosted 12 women’s majors since 2013 with the Evian Championship.
Medinah Country Club’s No 3 Course, site of the 2026 Presidents Cup, three US Opens and two PGA Championships, has been remodelled by the Australian design firm OCM (Geoff Ogilvy, Mike Cocking and Ashley Mead). They revamped the course in the spirit of its prairie-style 1920s roots by clearing trees, planting fescue and reintroducing the original mode of rugged bunkering. Major sections of the course have been rerouted with new holes, including the short, cape-style par-4 16th with a bite-off-what-you-dare tee shot across water and the revamped par-3 17th (pictured). It will look nothing like you remember from the 2012 Ryder Cup.
initiated by Amy Alcott in 1988 when it was the Nabisco Dinah Shore, was for the winner and her caddie to jump into Poppie’s Pond at Mission Hills, Ran- cho Mirage, California. When it moved under new sponsors in 2022 to Carlton Woods in Texas, there was a lake on 18 into which the winner could leap, but a pier had to be built for the occasion. Memorial Park though has no water on 18. Unless a portable swimming pool is acquired, that tradition is over.
Aronimink in Philadelphia was where Gary Player won the 1962 PGA Championship.
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