Newport Country Club

Founded in 1893 amid the Gilded Age grandeur of Newport, Rhode Island, Newport Country Club is one of the five charter members of the United States Golf Association, formed in December 1894. Its first professional, William F. Davis, laid out an early nine-hole course that was soon expanded. In 1895 the club made history by hosting both the first U.S. Amateur and the first U.S. Open on consecutive days. C.B. Macdonald won the inaugural Amateur, while Horace Rawlins, a young assistant at the club, took the first Open from an eleven-man field. Club co-founder Theodore Havemeyer served as the USGA's first president, and the U.S. Amateur trophy still bears his name. A.W. Tillinghast completed a full redesign in 1921 that has remained largely intact. Newport later hosted the 1995 U.S. Amateur, the 2006 U.S. Women's Open, and the 2024 U.S. Senior Open, extending a championship legacy that reaches back to the very origins of American golf.