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THE United States Golf Association (USGA) has announced that the 2022 U.S Women’s Open will return for a fourth time to the Pine Needles resort in Southern Pines North Carolina.
The resort is operated by the family of the late LPGA Hall of Fame inductee Peggy Kirk-Bell.
Pine Needles will also be the site of the second U.S. Sr. Women’s Open in 2019.
Pine Needles has had three great champions in it’s women’s opens. Annika Sorenstam, Christie Kerr and Karrie Webb. The 2022 open will be the 77th in U.S. Women’s Open history, and will be played from June 2-5. the last U.S. Women’s Open at Pine Needles was played in 2007.
The Par 3, 3rd hole at Pine Needles Resort, home of the 2022 U.S. Women’s Open
“We are thrilled to being another U.S. Women’s Open to one of the most respected courses in the United States,” said Stuart Francis, USGA Championship Committee chairman. “Three great USGA Champions have conquered the ultimate test in women’s golf at PineNeedles, and we look forward to adding the 77th U.S. Women’s Open champion to that illustrious list.”
The golf course was designed by the famed designer Donald Ross in 1928, and was renovated in 2004 by John Fought, who oversaw the restoration of greens and bunkers to their original forms with the assistance of original vintage aerial pictures.
During the summer of 2016 Kyle Franz was brought in to oversee a green rebuilding and bunker restoration project to maximize hole locations. In addition to the three women’s open championships, Pine Needles has hosted the 1989 U.S. Junior Girls and the 1991 U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur Championship.
Mrs. Bell who shortly before her passing in 2016, was heard to say that if the 2019 U.S. Sr. Women’s Open had a super senior section in the field, she would have dusted off her clubs and gone out and played. Kelly Miller President and CEO of Pine Needles says that Mrs. Bell would have been very happy to hear of Pine Needles hosting another Women’s Open.
USGA Historian Michael Trostel and USGA CEO Mike Davis talk about the U.S Women’s Open returning to Pine Needles for a record 4th time.
For more information visit USGA.org.