Two USGA Senior Amateur Championships Coming to The Omni Homestead Resort By Brian Weis

Two USGA Senior Amateur Championships Coming to The Omni Homestead Resort

Virginia club will host 2025 U.S. Senior Women's Amateur and 2029 U.S. Senior Amateur

By Brian Weis

LIBERTY CORNER, N.J. (April 21, 2023) - The United States Golf Association (USGA) today announced that The Omni Homestead Resort's Cascades Course, in Hot Springs, Va., will host the 2025 U.S. Senior Women's Amateur and the 2029 U.S. Senior Amateur. They will be the ninth and 10th USGA championships hosted at the historic resort.

The 63rd U.S. Senior Women's Amateur is scheduled for Sept. 13-18, 2025; while the 74th U.S. Senior Amateur will be played Aug. 25-30, 2029.

"The Omni Homestead Resort has been a part of USGA history for nearly a century," said Mark Hill, USGA managing director, Championships. "We look forward to returning to the Hot Springs community to continue this legacy. The announcement of these championships only adds to the excitement of the future of competitive senior golf."

The Omni Homestead Resort's Cascades Course is currently celebrating its centennial. Designed by renowned architect William S. Flynn, the course is set against the backdrop of the Allegheny Mountains and opened for play in 1923. Sam Snead, a four-time U.S. Open runnerup and World Golf Hall of Famer, served as The Homestead's golf professional for nearly six decades. The resort received U.S. National Historic Landmark status in 1991.

"As we near the completion of our $150 million renovation, which is restoring the grandeur to our iconic resort, we are excited to look ahead and reinforce our place among America's outstanding golf destinations," said Mark Spadoni, managing director for The Omni Homestead Resort. "For nearly a century, we have been proud partners with the USGA, and discerning golfers recognize that only preeminent courses have hosted 10 or more USGA championships. It is our honor to join this elite group."

The Homestead Resort has hosted seven different USGA championships in its eight previous times as host (only Bandon Dunes Golf Resort, with eight, has hosted more different USGA championships) and it will host both the U.S. Senior Women's Amateur and U.S. Senior Amateur for the second time. Renowned amateur and past USGA president William C.Campbell captured his second consecutive U.S. Senior Amateur title in 1980 with a 3-and-2 victory over Keith Compton. In 2009, Sherry G. Herman defeated 2004 champion Carolyn Creekmore, 4 and 3, in the 48th U.S. Senior Women's Amateur.

The first of two U.S. Women's Amateurs was played at The Homestead in 1928, when Glenna Collett Vare won the third of her record six championships. Wendy Ward was victorious in 1994, earning a 2-and-1 triumph over 2022 U.S. Senior Women's Open champion Jill McGill. The USA Team captained by five-time USGA champion Dorothy Porter posted a 13-5 triumph in the 1966 Curtis Cup Match on the Cascades Course.

In 1967, Catherine Lacoste, of France, became the only amateur to win the U.S. Women's Open with her two-stroke victory over Susie Maxwell Berning and Beth Stone. The Homestead also hosted the 1988 U.S. Amateur (won by Eric Meeks) and the 2000 U.S. Mid-Amateur (won by Greg Puga).

Additionally, The Homestead hosted the 1932 NCAA Championship (won by Yale and Michigan's Johnny Fischer) and the 2004 NCAAs, when three-time USGA champion Ryan Moore of UNLV won the individual title and California-Berkeley earned the team title. The club will host U.S. Senior Open qualifying in 2023 for the ninth consecutive time and 19th time overall on May 31.

The 2025 U.S. Senior Women's Amateur and 2029 U.S. Senior Amateur will be the 22nd and 23rd championships hosted in the Old Dominion State. The 2024 U.S. Mid-Amateur will be contested at Kinloch Golf Club in Manakin-Sabot and stroke-play co-host Independence Golf Club, in Midlothian.

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Brian Weis is the mastermind behind GolfTrips.com, a vast network of golf travel and directory sites covering everything from the rolling fairways of Wisconsin to the sunbaked desert layouts of Arizona. If there’s a golf destination worth visiting, chances are, Brian has written about it, played it, or at the very least, found a way to justify a "business trip" there.

As a card-carrying member of the Golf Writers Association of America (GWAA), International Network of Golf (ING), Golf Travel Writers of America (GTWA), International Golf Travel Writers Association (IGTWA), and The Society of Hickory Golfers (SoHG), Brian has the credentials to prove that talking about golf is his full-time job. In 2016, his peers even handed him The Shaheen Cup, a prestigious award in golf travel writing—essentially the Masters green jacket for guys who don’t hit the range but still know where the best 19th holes are.

Brian’s love for golf goes way back. As a kid, he competed in junior and high school golf, only to realize that his dreams of a college golf scholarship had about the same odds as a 30-handicap making a hole-in-one. Instead, he took the more practical route—working on the West Bend Country Club grounds crew to fund his University of Wisconsin education. Little did he know that mowing greens and fixing divots would one day lead to a career writing about the best courses on the planet.

In 2004, Brian turned his golf passion into a business, launching GolfWisconsin.com. Three years later, he expanded his vision, and GolfTrips.com was born—a one-stop shop for golf travel junkies looking for their next tee time. Today, his empire spans all 50 states, and 20+ international destinations.

On the course, Brian is a weekend warrior who oscillates between a 5 and 9 handicap, depending on how much he's been traveling (or how generous he’s feeling with his scorecard). His signature move" A high, soft fade that his playing partners affectionately (or not-so-affectionately) call "The Weis Slice." But when he catches one clean, his 300+ yard drives remind everyone that while he may write about golf for a living, he can still send a ball into the next zip code with the best of them.

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