Montclair Golf Club, founded in 1893, is one of the nation’s oldest golf courses, with its original 18-hole course by Tom Bendelow opening in 1899. In 1920, renowned architect Donald Ross designed the present-day first, second and third nines, and in 1928, Charles Banks designed the fourth. Robert Trent Jones Sr. and son Rees Jones, both longtime club members, redesigned and improved the original layouts, with the last of their work taking place in 2010. In 2022, Brian Schneider of Renaissance Golf Design worked with Montclair to undergo a dramatic and significant restoration of the second and third nine.

Founded in 1889, the Country Club of Buffalo’s first site was on leased farmland in the City of Buffalo near the present location of the Buffalo History Museum. The club vacated this land in 1899 to make way for the Pan American Exposition of 1901. In 1920, the membership again decided to relocate, and purchased a unique piece of property to begin construction of a golf course, clubhouse and a polo field with stables. Noted course architect Donald Ross designed the golf current layout in 1926. Ross displayed his creative genius by weaving six of the 18 holes through the excavations of two limestone quarries, which had been in operation during the late 1800s. The course design also benefits from trademark Ross green complexes and the flow of a natural hill. 

Designed by World Golf Hall of Famer Donald Ross, Charlotte Country Club opened its first nine holes in 1910, with the second nine completed five years later. Located 4 miles east of uptown Charlotte, in the Plaza-Midwood neighborhood, the club was first known as The Mecklenburg Club. Ron Pritchard oversaw updates to the course in 2007, while Andrew Green will lead a complete restoration of the course and practice facility over the next two years. The project will restore and retain the original Ross character and features while replacing aging infrastructure.

The Donald Ross layout will host its second USGA championship 30 years after its first. To celebrate its centennial, the Country Club of York was the site of the 1999 U.S. Junior Amateur, won by future PGA Tour winner and U.S. Ryder Cup competitor Hunter Mahan. He defeated another future PGA Tour winner, Camilo Villegas, of Colombia, in the 18-hole final. Andrew Green has since done an extensive restoration of the course. The C.C. of York has been the host site of several state competitions and hosted U.S. Open local qualifying. The club will host a third USGA competition in 2035 (U.S. Women's Amateur Four-Ball). 

Sand Valley Resort features five acclaimed golf courses. The Lido, the primary course for the 2026 U.S. Mid-Amateur and the 2029 U.S. Junior Amateur, is a private club that welcomes limited resort play. It is an exacting re-creation by Tom Doak and Brian Schneider, with the Renaissance Golf team, of the legendary links originally designed by inaugural U.S. Amateur champion Charles B. Macdonald on Long Island that opened for play in 1917. The new Lido course opened for play earlier this year. The original course on Long Island was repurposed by the U.S. Navy during World War II and closed in 1942. Doak and Schneider worked with golf historian and software designer Peter Flory, utilizing historical surveys, engineering records and photographs to guide the project. Mammoth Dunes and Sand Valley are the other two 18-hole, championship layouts. Sand Valley, the original course at the resort, was designed by Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw and opened in 2017. A year later, the David McLay Kidd-designed Mammoth Dunes opened for play.

Jupiter Hills Club’s Hills Course will be used for both stroke-play qualifying and the match-play portion of the 2027 U.S. Mid-Amateur and the entire 2032 U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur. The course was designed by George Fazio and opened for play in 1970. Fazio, who had three top-five finishes in the U.S. Open, including a playoff loss to Ben Hogan in 1950 at Merion Golf Club, partnered with auto industrialist William Clay Ford Sr., comedian and actor Bob Hope and William Elliott to purchase the land where the course was built in the late 1960s. Tom Fazio, George’s nephew, renovated the Hills Course in 2006 and again with his son, Logan, in 2020.

Exmoor Country Club is returning to the USGA competition calendar for the first time since 1965. That year, the club hosted the 4th edition of the U.S. Senior Women's Amateur, won by Loma Smith. In 1933, Virginia Van Wie claimed the second of three consecutive U.S. Women's Amateur titles. The club itself dates to 1896. Located 28 miles north of downtown Chicago, it was the third established club in the state of Illinois. C.B. Macdonald, considered the Father of American Golf Architecture, designed the original nine holes before Donald Ross created a new 18-hole layout in 1915. In 2003, Ron Pritchard executed an extensive renovation/restoration of the layout. This will be the first USGA championship conducted in the state of Illinois since the inaugural U.S. Senior Women's Open in 2018 at Chicago Golf Club.

The Golf Club of Tennessee will host a USGA championship for a third time in 2034. The U.S. Women's Mid-Amateur will follow the 2018 U.S. Women's Amateur and 2029 U.S. Mid-Amateur. Tom Fazio designed the original course at the club. That is now the Lower Course. The Upper Course, opened in 2024, was designed by Gil Hanse. It is unknown at this time which course will be utilized for the championship. The club was founded in 1988 by Nashville, Tenn., businessman Toby Wilt and Bronson Ingram, then chairman of locally based Ingram Industries. The club features three USGA champions: Brandt Snedeker (2003 U.S. Amateur Public Links), Lou Graham (1975 U.S. Open) and Sarah Lebrun Ingram, a three-time U.S. Women's Mid-Amateur champion. She also played on a USA Curtis Cup Team and served as a captain for two.