Salem Country Club is adding three more USGA championships to a history that already stretches back nearly a century.
The USGA announced that Salem, the Donald Ross design in Peabody, Massachusetts, will host the 2032 U.S. Mid-Amateur, 2036 U.S. Senior Women’s Open and 2041 U.S. Senior Open. The three additions will bring USGA championship golf back to Salem for the first time since 2017 and add to a resume that already includes six USGA events.
The first one carries some extra significance. When the U.S. Mid-Amateur arrives in 2032, it will come exactly 100 years after Salem hosted its first USGA championship, the 1932 U.S. Women’s Amateur.
“We are excited to continue the USGA’s partnership with Salem Country Club and bring championship golf back
to such a storied venue,” said Mark Hill, USGA managing director of championships. “Salem has been the site of many great USGA championships, and we look forward to building on that history with additional events, including the 2032 U.S. Mid-Amateur, which will mark a century-long partnership between Salem and the USGA.”
Founded in 1895, Salem originally opened in Salem, Massachusetts, before moving to Peabody in 1926, where Ross designed the course on the former Sanders Farm.
It didn’t take long for the USGA to arrive, as six years later, Virginia Van Wie defeated Glenna Collett Vare, 10 and 8, to win the U.S. Women’s Amateur, the first of three consecutive titles for Van Wie.
Salem’s championship history only grew from there. Babe Zaharias won the 1954 U.S. Women’s Open by 12 strokes, just months after undergoing multiple surgeries for colon cancer. Dale Morey won the 1977 U.S. Senior Amateur, and Hollis Stacy captured her third U.S. Women’s Open when the championship returned in 1984.
The club later hosted two U.S. Senior Opens. Bruce Fleisher won in 2001, while Kenny Perry closed with a bogey-free 68 to win by two shots in 2017.
Now the championship calendar is filling up again.
“Salem Country Club is honored to welcome USGA championship golf back to our course in 2032,” club president Wayne Guyer said. “The 2032 U.S. Mid-Amateur will be a particularly special occasion for our membership as we celebrate the 100th anniversary of our first USGA championship.”
Salem’s Ross design has also undergone a multi-year restoration beginning in 2016 that restored signature bunkering, sweeping fairway lines and original green shapes while adding flexible teeing grounds and additional length. The course can stretch to 7,024 yards for championship play.
The Salem announcement comes as the USGA continues to lock down major championships at some of the country’s most historic courses.
Merion Golf Club in Ardmore, Pennsylvania, recently joined Pinehurst, Oakmont and Pebble Beach as a U.S. Open anchor site, guaranteeing the Hugh Wilson-designed East Course a prominent spot in the USGA rotation for decades.
Merion will host U.S. Opens in 2030, 2040 and 2050, along with U.S. Women’s Opens in 2034 and 2046.
Merion has hosted 20 USGA championships, most recently the 2026 U.S. Amateur, which drew record attendance. Its history includes one of the defining moments in American golf: Bobby Jones winning the 1930 U.S. Amateur there to complete his Grand Slam.
The East Course opened in 1912 and is currently No. 7 on Golfweek’s Best ranking of classic courses in the United States. Wilson, then a member of Merion’s green committee, designed the course as his first, seeking advice from C.B. Macdonald and turf experts Dr. Charles Piper and Dr. Russell Oakley.
This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Historic Massachusetts Donald Ross design lands three future USGA events
