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