Philadelphia Cricket Club to host 2024 U.S. Amateur Four-Ball Championship
The Flourtown course had been scheduled to conduct the event in 2020 before it was canceled because of the pandemic.
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Philadelphia Cricket Club, which was scheduled to host the 2020 U.S. Amateur Four-Ball Championship that was canceled because of the pandemic, has been named to host the same championship in 2024, the U.S. Golf Association announced Monday.
The Flourtown club’s Wissahickon and Militia Hill courses will be the venues for stroke-play qualifying, with match play taking place on the Wissahickon course.
This will be the Cricket Club’s third USGA championship and its first since the 1910 U.S. Open.
“The USGA’s return to Philadelphia Cricket Club after more than a century is noteworthy due to its deep roots in American golf history and as one of the founding member clubs of the Golf Association of Philadelphia,” said Bill McCarthy, the U.S. Amateur Four-Ball Championship director for the USGA.
“The club’s restoration work is outstanding, presenting a challenge to a player’s entire game. Philly Cricket will provide an amazing championship experience.”
Designed by A.W. Tillinghast, a Cricket Club member, the Wissahickon Course opened for play in 1922. Since it was restored in 2013 and 2014, the course has hosted the 2016 Senior Players Championship won by Bernhard Langer, and the 2015 PGA Professional National Championship.
The first course at Philadelphia Cricket Club, the St. Martins Course built by Willie Tucker in 1895, was the site of the 1907 and 1910 U.S. Opens, championships won by Alex Ross and Alex Smith, respectively. Smith won in an 18-hole playoff over Macdonald Smith and Philadelphia’s John J. McDermott, who would win the next two U.S. Opens.
The dates of the 2024 U.S. Amateur Four-Ball Championship are May 25-29.