TOLEDO COURSE ORIGINALLY DESIGNED BY DONALD ROSS

      Inverness A view of Inverness golf course in Toledo, Ohio

AMERICA'S INVERNESS GOLF CLUB TO 

STAGE BOYS' CHAMPIONSHIP IN 2019

NEWS RELEASE FROM USGA
FAR HILLS, New Jersey – Inverness Golf Club, in Toledo, Ohio, has been selected by the United States Golf Association as the host site for the 2019 U.S. Junior Amateur Championship, to be contested July 15-20.
“Inverness Golf Club has enjoyed a storied history, having hosted seven USGA championships over the past century,” said Daniel B. Burton, USGA vice president and Championship Committee chairman. 
“By hosting this championship in 2019, the club will become the first to have a U.S. Open, U.S. Amateur, U.S. Senior Open and U.S. Junior Amateur.”
America's Inverness Golf Club was opened in 1903 and its current course was designed by Dornoch exile Donald Ross in 1916. The course has been restored three times, most recently by Arthur Hills in 1999. 
The lay-out features tree-lined, narrow bent grass fairways, approximately 80 bunkers and firm, fast bent grass greens.
Inverness Club will be hosting its eighth USGA championship and first U.S. Junior Amateur. The club has hosted four U.S. Opens. Ted Ray won the 1920 Open by one stroke over four players, including Harry Vardon. It was four-time champion Bob Jones’ first U.S. Open, and he finished in a tie for eighth place. Billy Burke (1931) and Dick Mayer (1957) won U.S. Opens at Inverness in play-offs, with Burke prevailing over George Von Elm in the longest play-off in U.S. Open and major championship history, 72 holes.
 Hale Irwin earned the second of his three U.S. Open victories in 1979, by two strokes over Gary Player and Jerry Pate.
The club also hosted the 2003 U.S. Senior Open, won by Bruce Lietzke, by two strokes over Tom Watson; the 2011 Senior Open, won by Olin Browne, by three strokes over Mark O’Meara; and the 1973 U.S. Amateur, won by Craig Stadler, who defeated David Strawn, 6 and 5, in the 36-hole final.
Inverness Club was the site for two PGA Championships and two NCAA Championships (1944, 2009). 
Bob Tway won the 1986 PGA Championship by holing a bunker shot on the 72nd hole to defeat Greg Norman by one stroke, and Paul Azinger outlasted Norman in a play-off to win the 1993 crown. World Golf Hall of Famer and 1939 U.S. Open champion Byron Nelson served as the club’s professional from 1940-44.

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