The List Issue: 10 Worst U.S. Open Sites

By Ron Whitten
June 2008

1. Northwood Club, Dallas (1952)

Following Oakland Hills, preceding Oakmont, it stuck out like a range ball in a sleeve of Pro V1s.

2. Englewood (N.J.) GC (1909)

So unmemorable that no one cared I-95 ran through it in 1960.

3. CC of Buffalo (N.Y.) (1912)

Club later moved to a Donald Ross design. Part of the original still exists as Grover Cleveland Park.

4. Baltimore CC (1899)

Not the A.W. Tillinghast gem, but the original, Roland Park, plowed under long ago. Had a cardiac-climb closing hole.

5. Atlanta Athletic Club (Highlands) (1976)

USGA only went there after a late-in-life appeal by Bobby Jones.

6. Midlothian (Ill.) CC (1914)

Hasn't changed much in almost a century; still remarkably bland.

7. Inwood (N.Y.) CC (1923)

Decent site for a Metropolitan Open, but the U.S. Open?

8. Congressional CC (Blue), Bethesda, Md. (1997)

The par-3 finishing hole was totally anticlimactic, so much so it has since been replaced.

9. North Shore GC, Glenview, Ill. (1933)

They chose this over Chicago GC and Olympia Fields?

10. Hazeltine National GC, Chaska, Minn. (1970)

Back then, it lacked a lot more than just 80 acres and some cows.
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