ELMSFORD, N.Y. (January 28, 2012) - The U.S. Open is headed back to Westchester County in 2020, returning to Winged Foot Golf Club (West Course) in Mamaroneck, N.Y., a site known for producing challenging and dramatic national championships, the USGA announced on Monday. The championship will come two years after the U.S. Open is played at Shinnecock Hills in 2018, giving the Met Area two U.S. Opens in three years.

The return will mark the 12th USGA championship to be held at Winged Foot, and the 20th U.S. Open hosted in the state of New York, the most of any state. The list of Winged Foot U.S. Open winners includes the likes of Bobby Jones (1929), Billy Casper (1959), Hale Irwin (1974), Fuzzy Zoeller (1984) and Geoff Ogilvy (2006). It is also the site of the more famous collapses in major championship history, when Phil Mickelson, leading by a stroke, made double bogey on the 72nd hole of the 2006 U.S. Open to allow Ogilvy to claim the victory. 

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"We’re thrilled to bring the U.S. Open back to this outstanding club,” said Thomas J. O’Toole Jr., USGA vice president and Championship committee chairman. “Winged Foot offers a spectacular setting in a dynamic market, and has justifiably earned its reputation as one of the premier U.S. Open venues in the nation. And it joins an impressive lineup of future U.S. Open Championship locations that players and fans alike can eagerly anticipate."

But before the U.S. Open returns, the famed East Course at the storied Westchester club will be the site of the 100th Met Open Championship in 2015, which will make it the 18th MGA championship held there (tied for Apawamis for the most ever). Current PGA Tour professional Johnson Wagner was the winner the last time the Met Open was held at Winged Foot in 2002, with a three-round total of 209 (-3). 

"Winged Foot Golf Club is truly honored to have the USGA select it as the host of the 2020 U.S. Open," club president John Schneider said. "The club's relationship with the USGA goes back to 1929 when Bob Jones defeated Al Espinosa to win the U.S. Open in a playoff. Tillinghast's vision has truly stood the test of time and Winged Foot anxiously awaits its next group of challengers."