The best female golfers in the world are headed to Chicago’s western suburbs — in 11 years.
The USGA on Tuesday announced Chicago Golf Club in Wheaton will host the 2033 U.S. Women’s Open as well as the 2036 Walker Cup matches. They will be the 13th and 14th USGA championships played at the 130-year-old private club, one of the USGA’s five founding member clubs.
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It will be the first time Chicago Golf Club has hosted the U.S. Women’s Open, which hasn’t been played in the area since Karrie Webb won the 2000 championship at the Merit Club in Libertyville.
The Walker Cup — a team competition pitting the top amateurs from the United States versus Great Britain and Ireland — will be played at Chicago Golf Club for the third time. The U.S. won the matches previously held there in 1928 and 2005.
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The club withdrew as host of the 1993 Walker Cup because of the USGA’s anti-discrimination policies, but it subsequently opened its membership to minorities and women.
Chicago Golf Club hosted three of the first 17 U.S. Opens (1897, 1900, 1911) and most recently hosted the inaugural U.S. Senior Women’s Open, won by Laura Davies in 2018.
The course is ranked 13th in Golf Digest’s most recent list of America’s 100 greatest golf courses, the highest ranking of any course in Illinois.
“The history of the USGA and American golf can’t be told without Chicago Golf Club,” John Bodenhamer, the USGA’s chief championships officer, said in a statement.
