Inverness Club will host a fifth U.S. Open, the USGA announced on Saturday, with the club slated to host the 2045 U.S. Open—66 years after its last national championship. It will be 52 years since Inverness’ last major championship, the 1993 PGA Championship won by Paul Azinger.
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The historic Ohio club has a long tournament history, having hosted the 1979, 1957, 1930 and 1921 U.S. Opens, the 1993 and 1986 PGA Championships, the 2021 Solheim Cup, the 2021 U.S. Junior Amateur, the 1973 U.S. Amateur, the 2003 and 2011 U.S. Senior Open and the 2009 and 1944 NCAA Championships.
Inverness Club will look much different than the last men’s major it hosted—as Andrew Green performed a complete restoration of the course in 2018, returning the course to its Donald Ross roots. The work followed changes to the course before the 1979 U.S. Open made by George and Tom Fazio that eliminated four original Ross holes from the layout in an attempt to make the course play more difficult.
The club remains one of just 21 courses in the U.S. to have been ranked on every edition of Golf Digest’s list of America’s 100 Greatest Courses. It’s currently 62nd on our list.
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Inverness is considered a classic Donald Ross design. In truth, it’s one of his best remodeling jobs. Some Ross fans were outraged when the course was radically altered by George and Tom Fazio in preparation for the 1979 U.S. Open. The uncle-nephew duo eliminated four holes (including the famous dogleg par-4 seventh), combined two holes to make the par-5 eighth and created three modern holes on newly acquired land. In 2018, golf architect Andrew Green replaced the Fazio holes with new ones more in the Ross style, relocated greens on two other holes and added new back tees everywhere. View Course
The club was also awarded the 2033 U.S. Girls’ Junior and the 2036 U.S. Women’s Amateur. Inverness had already been named host of the 2027 U.S. Women’s Open and the 2029 U.S. Amateur.
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Here are some comments from our Golf Digest course-ranking panelists on Inverness Club:
“Inverness charms you at the first tee with the blended fairway, practice putting green with the tee boxes, and the memorials to past golf legends.”
“There were some excellent holes, including the 12th — the only par 3 remaining that was designed by Ross; the 10th, a shortish par 4 with an outstanding green setting, the 7th, a difficult bunkerless hole, and the 18th a devilish, short par 4.”
“The short par-4 18th hole was a great example of how bunker placement can challenge players off the tee box. One of the toughest courses in the country to get home.”
“A great test of golf. Use of elevation to run out fairways makes club selection very important. Very much a shot-maker’s course, but extremely playable and fair.”
“Aside from the slight variations in trap locations and pin placements design variety (and memorability) lacks. Every hole started to feel the same, with a drive to the end of a plateau, followed by a drop in elevation to the creek that is crossed on nearly every hole and rise back up to the green.”
A place history never forgets.
The U.S. Open will return to Inverness Club in 2045. pic.twitter.com/7sf3wCowYr
— U.S. Open (@usopengolf) February 28, 2026
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