The seventeenth hole at Fox Chapel Golf Club in Fox Chapel, Pennsylvania on Thursday, Aug. 3, 2023. (Copyright USGA/Fred Vuich)
This marks the fourth USGA championship ever held at Fox Chapel, with Pennsylvania’s own Carol Semple Thompson delivering one of the most memorable moments in Curtis Cup history in 2002 with a 27-foot putt that clinched the cup for Team USA on the 18th green. Thompson, a seven-time USGA champion who lives just down the road in Sewickley, is playing this week on a special exemption.
Other USGA championships held at the 1923 Seth Raynor design include the 1965 U.S. Senior Amateur and 1985 U.S. Women’s Amateur. Ten players in this week’s field competed in that 1985 Women’s Amateur.
The course will play to a par 71 with an official yardage of 5,964.
“It’s good golf course,” said seven-time major winner Juli Inkster. “You have to drive the ball straight. Can’t play out of the rough. The bunkers are very penalizing. Even the bunkers by the greens, because the ball kind of just sinks down and you got a high lip. So a lot of greens that you want to hit and make sure you get in the right quadrant. But I think it tests all aspects of your game: driving, iron play and short game.
“So putting, I mean you could hit 18 greens out here and shoot 80. It’s just really about getting it in the right spot and taking advantage when you have a chance and playing safe when you just need to two-putt.”
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