Charles River Country Club, in Newton Centre, Mass., has been selected by the USGA as the host site of the 2031 U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur. The 69th edition of the championship is scheduled for Sept. 6-11, 2031, and will be the second USGA championship held at the club.
“We are thrilled to bring the U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur to Charles River in 2031,” said Mark Hill, USGA managing director, Championships. “With its timeless Donald Ross design and classic New England setting, this golf course will serve as the perfect stage for what promises to be a challenging test and an unforgettable championship.”
Located 10 miles west of downtown Boston on the east bank of the Charles River, the club’s 18-hole golf course was designed by Donald Ross and opened for play in 1921. In the mid-1990s, Ron Pritchard led a restoration of the course to its original characteristics, removing a significant number of trees, reconstructing bunkers and returning the greens to their original sizes. Recently, the club concluded an extensive renovation of its bunkers and surrounds under the supervision of Eric Iverson.
“Our membership is proud to be selected as the host site for the 2031 U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur,” said Club President Jim Connor. "We have long been committed to promoting amateur golf and look forward to hosting some of the world’s best senior golfers as they compete for a USGA title.”
Charles River hosted its first USGA championship in 2003, the Men’s State Team Championship, won by a Tennessee team that included nine-time PGA Tour winner Brandt Snedeker, 1999 U.S. Mid-Amateur champion Danny Green and two-time U.S. Mid-Am champion Tim Jackson. The club also served as the stroke-play co-host of the 1982 and 2013 U.S. Amateurs, where Jay Sigel and Matt Fitzpatrick went on to claim their respective titles at The Country Club in Brookline, Mass. Additionally, Charles River has hosted the Massachusetts Open five times and the Massachusetts Amateur six times.
Among some of Charles River Country Club’s early bond-holding members were 1913 U.S. Open champion Francis Ouimet and his caddie Eddie Lowery. Ouimet was the club’s first honorary member and remained a member until his death in 1967, while Lowery, an accomplished amateur in his own right, was a two-time club champion (1933 and 1936) and won the 1927 Massachusetts Amateur held at Charles River. Marion Maney-McInerney, the 1992 U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur champion, was also a member at the club. In addition to her USGA title, Maney-McInerney won the 1987 Massachusetts Women’s Amateur and the 1992 Mass Women’s Open.
The 2031 U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur will be the 64th USGA championship contested in Massachusetts, which most recently hosted the 2024 U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur, won by Hana Ryšková, at Brae Burn Country Club in West Newton.
First played in 1962, the U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur is open to any female amateur golfer who has reached age 50 on or before the start of the championship and whose Handicap Index® does not exceed 14.4. The field of 132 players will compete in two rounds of stroke play, resulting in the low 64 scorers advancing to match play. Five 18-hole rounds of match play determine the finalists, who square off in an 18-hole championship match.
Last year, Nadene Gole became the first Australian to win the U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur, defeating 2023 champion Shelly Stouffer, of Canada, 3 and 2, in the final match at Broadmoor Golf Club, in Seattle, Wash. The 2025 championship will be played Sept. 13-18 at The Omni Homestead’s Cascades Course, in Hot Springs, Va.
