Carlos Monarrez

Detroit Free Press

The Country Club of Detroit in Grosse Pointe Farms will host the 66th U.S. Senior Amateur championship in 2020, the U.S. Golf Association announced today.

The private club, which was founded in 1897, is famous for hosting the 1954 U.S. Amateur that Arnold Palmer won. CCD also hosted the 1915 U.S. Amateur.

“The Country Club of Detroit has had a long and storied tradition in amateur golf, and it is a great honor to have been awarded the 2020 U.S. Senior Amateur Championship,” club president Dainforth B. French Jr. said in a released statement. “We are excited and proud to showcase our wonderful club, which was founded more than a century ago, and a championship golf course, now restored to its original design, to a national audience.”

The tournament will be played Aug. 29 to Sept. 3, 2020. It is open to golfers at least 55 years old with a handicap that doesn’t exceed 7.4. Dates and sites for the qualifying for the tournament will be announced in 2020.

CCD’s current course was designed in 1927 by famed architects Harry S. Colt and Charles Hugh Alison. Updates followed by Robert Trent Jones in 1952 and by Robert Trent Jones Jr. in 1996. In 2011, course architect Tom Doak of Traverse City restored the fairways and greens to their original Colt and Alison design.

“The Country Club of Detroit and state of Michigan have always been supportive of amateur golf and the USGA is appreciative of this steadfast relationship,” Stuart Francis, USGA championship committee chairman, said in a released statement. “We are confident that a course where two U.S. Amateurs have been contested will provide a comprehensive examination as we identify the best senior amateur player.”

This is the third time Michigan has hosted the U.S. Senior Amateur. It was played at Birmingham Country Club in 1984 and at Crystal Downs Country Club in Frankfort in 1991.

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