Brookline, Massachusetts · Parkland
4 major championships hosted since 1913
Established
1882
Designer
Willie Campbell; William Flynn (redesign)
Par
70
Championship Yardage
7,310 yds
The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts, one of the five founding clubs of the USGA, is hallowed ground in American golf. Its rocky outcrops, tree-lined fairways and composite championship routing make for a quirky, demanding test.
Brookline is where amateur Francis Ouimet beat the British titans Vardon and Ray in 1913 to spark golf's American boom, and where the 1999 Ryder Cup produced the raucous “Battle of Brookline.”
Lowest scoring marks recorded in major championship competition at The Country Club.
Course Record (round)
63
U.S. Open rounds
Lowest 72-Hole Total
274 (−6)
Matt Fitzpatrick, 2022
First Major Hosted
1913
Total Majors Hosted
4
Every major championship staged at The Country Club, by championship and year.
| Championship | Times | Years |
|---|---|---|
| U.S. Open | 4 | 1913, 1963, 1988, 2022 |
Defining rounds and championship moments in the history of The Country Club.
Twenty-year-old amateur Francis Ouimet, with a 10-year-old caddie, beat Harry Vardon and Ted Ray in a playoff — the result that launched golf's popularity in America.
Julius Boros won a three-man playoff for the U.S. Open at 43.
Curtis Strange beat Nick Faldo in an 18-hole playoff, then repeated the next year at Oak Hill.
The U.S. stormed back from 10–6 down on Sunday to win the Ryder Cup amid wild scenes around the 17th green.
Matt Fitzpatrick hit a superb bunker shot on the 72nd hole to win the U.S. Open at the same venue where he won the 2013 U.S. Amateur.
It is a founding USGA club and the site of Francis Ouimet's landmark 1913 U.S. Open upset, which sparked golf's growth in America.
The 1999 Ryder Cup, when the U.S. team rallied from 10–6 down in Sunday singles amid one of the most charged atmospheres in golf.
Matt Fitzpatrick, who had also won the 2013 U.S. Amateur on the same course.