2024 U.S. Senior Open @ Newport CC

[boogielicious]

My wife and I and two friends attended the Thursday round of the US Senior Open at the Newport CC. It’s a beautiful course that’s on the southern tip of Aquidneck Island in Rhode Island. It borders the ocean and is kind of set up like a links style course with mostly fescue and wind as a defense. It’s sits amongst large estates of real old money. I’m surprised they let riff-raff like me near it!

We saw a lot of players we knew and even more we didn’t. 

Here’s the clubhouse 

The 9th green

18th

It’s a wide open course so we could see a long way. I did take some video on the 1st, 4th and 10th

Jim Furyk

Lee Janzen 

Justin Leonard

Steve Stricker walking from the 4th to the 5th. A lady behind me called out to him.

10th tee had a few players we didn’t know but they did had friends and family walking with them.

4th Tee with Bernard Langer

We had a lot of fun and did a lot of walking. The stands and clubs were smaller than the US Open we went to in Brookline at The Country Club. That’s to be expected as the crowds were about 1/4 the size.

Wind is definitely a factor on this course this time of year. Summer winds can come off the water from the south to southwest and really kick up to 20+ in the afternoon. If fronts come through it can shift from the north down Narragansett Bay. 

I’m pleased we got to go and see it.

Local Rhode Islander Brett Quigley on the 1st

[DaveP043]

I'm on the bench these days playing-wise, so I've watched a good bit of this.  I really like the look of the course, the false fronts, cross bunkers, green slopes, etc.  It looks a solid challenge without being quite as punishing as Pinehurst was for the younger fellas.

[guitarget]

I was a marshal on this course for a senior event in the late 1980's.  Lived in Portsmouth.  I don't ever recall the wind letting up in this part of Newport.  We'd take the kids to watch all the elaborate kites.😊

[boogielicious]

It was five variable weather days. Thursday and Friday were typical light winds in the morning then strong SW wind in the afternoon. Sunday they had morning fog then a break then T-Storms. I live in Narragansett near Point Judith and we call it Point Weather.