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The USGA accepted 9,265 entries for the 2022 championship who made the 36-hole cut at The Country Club in last year’s
at The Country Club, in Brookline, Mass. The record of U.S. Open. Canoe Brook Country Club, with its North and
10,127 entries was established for the 2014 championship South Courses, will serve as a final site for the 18th time
on Pinehurst Resort & Country Club’s Course No. 2, in the since 1980. Bent Tree Country Club and Northwood Club,
Village of Pinehurst, N.C. which co-hosted in 2019, will host the Dallas qualifier for
the second time.
Illini Country Club, in Springfield, Ill., will hold a U.S. Open
qualifier for the 44th consecutive year in which qualifying Woodmont Country Club, in Rockville, Md., will host final
has been conducted. Riverton (Wyo.) Country Club and qualifying for the 35th time in the last 37 years, with only
Ironwood Country Club, in Palm Desert, Calif., will host the North Course used for the ninth consecutive time.
local qualifying for the 25th and 22nd year, respectively. Springfield Country Club in Ohio will host final qualifying
Collindale Golf Course, in Fort Collins, Colo., has been a for the 14th time. Hawks Ridge Golf Club, in Ball Ground, Ga.,
host site since 2003. and Tacoma Country and Golf Club will be final qualifying
venues for the eighth and sixth times, respectively.
To be eligible, a player must have a Handicap Index® not
exceeding 1.4, or be a professional. There are 14 local U.S. Open final qualifying returns to the state of North
qualifying sites in California, the most of any state. Florida Carolina for the first time since 1979 when Old Chatham
will host 13 local qualifiers. Golf Club, in Durham, serves as a site. Hillcrest Country
Club, 3 miles from The Los Angeles C.C., and Pine Tree Golf
The final qualifying venues in Columbus, Ohio; Dallas, Club, in Boynton Beach, Fla., will join Old Chatham as first-
Texas; and Summit, N.J., will use two courses. In Columbus, time qualifying sites.
Brookside Golf and Country Club and The Lakes Golf and
Country Club will combine to host final qualifying for Walton Heath Golf Club, in Surrey, England, was a site when
the 16th time since 1993. Denny McCarthy, who tied for international qualifying began in 2005. Both of its courses
seventh, was among 10 players from the Columbus qualifier were also designed by W. Herbert Fowler, the original

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