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Another one for No. 2 U.S. Open set to return to Pinehurst in 2005
Posted: Friday January 21, 2000 03:17 PM
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The 2005 U.S. Open was awarded to Pinehurst No. 2 in North Carolina, the USGA executive committee decided Thursday. Pinehurst No. 2 was the site of the 1999 U.S. Open won by the late Payne Stewart. The North Carolina site beat out the Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles and East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta. It was Riviera's chance to stage a national championship for the first time since 1948. At the USGA's annual winter meetings in San Francisco, the executive committee chose Pinehurst No. 2 because it met tougher course standards. Riviera, designed by George Thomas in 1927, would have had to tighten a number of fairways and undergone a complete reconstruction of the greens. USGA decided it would not be in its best interests to award the U.S. Open to a course that didn't already have the necessary changes in place.
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