The United States Golf Association has announced that it has awarded the 2015 US Open Championship to Chambers Bay, the spectacular municipal links course located on the scenic lower Puget Sound in University Place, Washington.
The USGA also announced that Chambers Bay, designed by Robert Trent Jones Jr and Bruce Charleton, will play host to the U.S. Amateur Championship in 2010.
Chambers Bay will be the third municipal course to host the US Open, following Bethpage Black in New York (2002, 2009) and Torrey Pines in California later this year. Chambers Bay will be the first golf course in the Pacific Northwest to hold the US Open.
"We are excited to take the US Open Championship and the US Amateur to such an awesome site,” said Jim Hyler, chairman of the USGA Championship Committee. “This is the first time the US Open has been to Washington and we are confident that the golf course will provide a challenging test for the best players in the world, as well as a great spectator experience for those who attend the event and watch it online and on television.
“The local leadership provided by Pierce County has been superb and we look forward to partnering with them and the great sports fans in Washington to host a truly unique Open Championship. And, the US Amateur will give us great insight into the golf course architecture and championship setup. For the first time, the National Open will be played on fine fescue grasses, including the putting greens,” continued Hyler.
Chambers Bay, opened in June 2007, is the centerpiece of a 930-acre park purchased by Pierce County, Wash., in 1992 that today features scenic trails and coastline vistas where a sand and gravel quarry once stood.
