The Home Course, in DuPont, Wash., has been chosen by the USGA to host the 8th U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball Championship. The dates of the championship are May 13-17, 2023.
This will be the second USGA championship to be held at The Home Course, which hosted the 2014 U.S. Women’s Amateur Public Links. The course also served as the stroke-play co-host for the 2010 U.S. Amateur and 2021 U.S. Amateur Four-Ball, each of which was contested at Chambers Bay. The U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball Championship returns to the Pacific Northwest for the first time since the inaugural event was played in 2015 at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort, in Bandon, Ore.
PAR AND YARDAGE
The Home Course will be set up at 6,487 yards and will play to a par of 36-36–72.
THE HOME COURSE HOLE BY HOLE
Hole 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Total
Par 4 4 4 3 5 3 4 5 4 36
Yards 359 408 331 148 556 185 385 521 392 3,202
Hole 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Total
Par 5 4 3 4 3 4 5 4 4 36
Yards 515 332 168 405 159 367 506 342 413 3,285
Note: Yardages subject to change.
ABOUT THE HOME COURSE
A public course cooperatively owned by Washington Golf and the Pacific Northwest Golf Association (PNGA), The Home Course was designed by Mike Asmundson and opened for play in 2007.
The land on which The Home Course was built was occupied by several Native American tribes known collectively as the Salish people. Following the arrival of European settlers, it housed a trading and supply center for the Hudson’s Bay Company. The PNGA’s historical research indicates that the company’s traders created a six-hole layout around a fort that may have been the first golf course in the Northwest.
The DuPont Company acquired the land in 1906 and constructed a plant that manufactured explosives. The plant ceased production in the late 1970s when the property was acquired by the Weyerhaeuser Company as part of an industrial development plan for the DuPont area.
Weyerhaeuser, DuPont, the Washington State Department of Ecology, the Washington State Department of Archaeology and Historical Preservation, the Nisqually Tribe, the City of DuPont, the DuPont Historical Society and other stakeholders collaborated on the cleanup of the former plant. Construction of a golf course was part of the environmental remediation process.
The Home Course hosted the final U.S. Women’s Amateur Public Links Championship in 2014. The course also served as the stroke-play co-host for the 2010 U.S. Amateur and 2021 U.S. Amateur Four-Ball, both of which were contested at Chambers Bay.
ENTRIES
The championship is open to two-player sides of female amateur golfers, each of whom has a Handicap Index® not exceeding 14.4. The USGA accepted 366 side entries for the 2023 championship. The record number of entries is 425 from the 2021 championship.
QUALIFYING
Qualifying was conducted over 18 holes at a total of 26 sites, including one in Mexico, between Aug. 22 and Dec. 7, 2022.
Click here for a full list of qualifying results.
CHAMPIONSHIP FIELD
A starting field of 64 sides (128 golfers) will compete in the U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball. Following 18-hole rounds of stroke play on May 13 and 14, the field will be cut to the low 32 sides for match play. Five 18-hole rounds of match play will determine the champions.
SCHEDULE OF PLAY
Practice rounds will take place May 11 and 12, and the championship schedule is as follows:
May 13 (Saturday): First round, stroke play
May 14 (Sunday): Second round, stroke play
May 15 (Monday): Round of 32, match play
May 16 (Tuesday): Round of 16 and quarterfinal rounds, match play
May 17 (Wednesday): Semifinal and championship rounds, match play
WHAT THE WINNERS RECEIVE
A 10-year exemption from qualifying for the U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball, provided the side remains intact and amateur
Exemption for each player into the 2023 U.S. Women’s Amateur at Bel-Air Country Club in Los Angeles, Calif.
Exemptions into the 2023 U.S. Girls’ Junior, U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur and U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur (if age-eligible)
Gold medals and custody of the U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball trophy for one year
Their names inscribed on a plaque recognizing all 2023 USGA champions that will reside in the Hall of Champions at the USGA Golf Museum in Liberty Corner, N.J.
2022 CHAMPIONSHIP
Georgia teenagers Thienna Huynh and Sara Im defeated fellow teens Kaitlyn Schroeder and Bailey Shoemaker, 1 up, to win the 7th U.S. Women's Amateur Four-Ball at Grand Reserve Golf Club in Rio Grande, Puerto Rico. It was the first USGA championship held in a U.S. territory. To read more, click here.
CHAMPIONSHIP HISTORY
The inaugural U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball Championship was played in 2015 on the Pacific Dunes Course at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort in Bandon, Ore. Along with the U.S. Amateur Four-Ball, which also debuted in 2015, the championships were the first additions to the USGA’s annual competitive schedule since the U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur in 1987. Since then, the USGA has added the U.S. Senior Women’s Open (2018) and the U.S. Adaptive Open (2022).
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FOUR-BALL AND FOURSOMES?
While each involves four players, four-ball and foursomes are different formats.
In four-ball, matches are played in pairs (a player and a partner, called a side, against another player and partner), with each golfer playing his or her own ball on each hole. At the end of each hole, the player with the lowest score wins that hole for the side. In stroke play, the low score is the side’s score for that hole.
Foursome matches are also played in pairs (one side against another side), but each pair plays with only one ball. In this format, also known as alternate shot, the players take turns hitting the ball from the teeing ground and during play of each hole, with “Player A” hitting the tee shot, “Player B” the second shot, Player A the third, and so on. While the side can choose the order, if Player A hits the tee shots on odd-numbered holes, Player B must hit them on even-numbered holes.
FUTURE SITES
May 11-15, 2024: Oak Hills Country Club, San Antonio, Texas
May 10-14, 2025: Oklahoma City Golf & Country Club, Nichols Hills, Okla.
May 2-6, 2026: The Daniel Island Club, Charleston, S.C.
May 12-16, 2029: Desert Mountain Club, Scottsdale, Ariz.
TBD, 2037: Bandon Dunes Golf Resort, Bandon, Ore.
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