Located in North Scottsdale and established in 1986, Desert Mountain features six Jack Nicklaus-designed championship courses, plus a par-54, 18-hole seventh course. The private club and community extends across 8,300 acres of Sonoran Desert terrain set at an altitude of about 3,000 feet. Its unique collection of courses offers landscapes that range from dramatic elevation changes to rolling fairways reminiscent of Scottish links.

Erin Hills joins a list of 13 other courses that have hosted or will host the U.S. Open, U.S. Women’s Open, U.S. Amateur and U.S. Women’s Amateur. The course played host to the first U.S. Open in the state of Wisconsin in 2017 when Brooks Koepka won the first of his two consecutive titles. Erin Hills also was the site of the 2011 U.S. Amateur, where Kelly Kraft defeated Patrick Cantlay, 2 up, in the 36-hole final.  "Erin Hills has proven itself as an exceptional venue for USGA championships, and we are thrilled to bring these five events to this iconic course,” said Mark Hill, managing director, Championships. “The natural beauty and challenging layout of Erin Hills make it the perfect stage for golfers to showcase their talent and determination." 

The Robert Trent Jones Jr. design, which opened in 2007, traverses a rugged landscape along Puget Sound. The 250-acre course, built on the site of a former sand-and-gravel mining operation, is the centerpiece of a 930-acre park owned by Pierce County. The 2028 U.S. Amateur Four-Ball will be the 31st USGA championship held in the state of Washington. The Evergreen State most recently hosted the 2023 U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball at The Home Course in Dupont, which will also serve as the stroke play co-host during the Four-Ball in 2028 and will host the 2024 U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur at Broadmoor Golf Club in Seattle later this summer. 

Metedeconk National Golf Club, a 27-hole facility in Jackson, N.J., will be hosting its first USGA championship. The stroke-play co-host venue has yet to be announced. The course was designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr. with assistance from Roger Rulewich and opened in 1987. When the 1,200-acre plot was purchased by Richard and Herb Sambol in the 1970s, it was intended for residential development. The Sambols planned to also build a golf course as an amenity to draw investors to develop houses on the land. As the project progressed, Richard Sambol – with the inspiration of Jones – changed the plans from a housing development to a championship-level golf facility. The golf course, which can be stretched to more than 7,400 yards, features multiple teeing options and several penalty areas, hallmarks of a Jones design. Located less than 30 miles east of Trenton, the layout winds through marshland and lowland pine forest, providing both beauty and strategic challenge.

The A.W. Tillinghast design, which uses holes from the East, Center and West nines, will follow up a successful U.S. Amateur in 2022 with the first of three USGA championships. This will be the first U.S. Amateur Four-Ball contested at Ridgewood, and the second time the championship is being contested in New Jersey, following the 2025 edition at Plainfield Country Club. Sam Bennett won the 2022 U.S. Amateur at Ridgewood. Jerry Pate captured the 1974 U.S. Amateur there before winning the U.S. Open two years later. Lee Trevino won the 1990 U.S. Senior Open, J. Clark Espie captured the 1957 U.S. Senior Amateur and Eun Jeong Seong started her remarkable 2016 USGA season by winning the U.S. Girls' Junior. She would win the U.S. Women's Amateur a couple of weeks later at Rolling Green outside of Philadelphia. Since 2000, a renovation led by Gil Hanse has restored Ridgewood to its Tillinghast roots. The 2035 U.S. Junior Amateur and 2042 U.S. Amateur also is headed to Ridgewood. In 1935, Ridgewood hosted the Ryder Cup Matches, and the PGA Tour has also visited on several occasions.

The resort will host both the U.S. Women’s Amateur and U.S. Amateur in 2032 and again in 2041, marking the first time those two original USGA championships will be contested on the same site in the same calendar year. It will host the 2037 U.S. Women's Amateur Four-Ball and U.S. Amateur Four-Ball. The resort will also host the U.S. Junior Amateur and U.S. Girls’ Junior in 2045, which will mark the fourth time those championships will be conducted at the same facility in the same year. The agreement also includes the 2028 Walker Cup Match and the 2038 Curtis Cup Match.