Gold Mountain Golf Course To Host 2006 Amateur Public Links Championship
April 1, 2003
Gold Mountain Golf Course To Host 2006 Amateur Public Links Championship

Far Hills, N.J. - Gold Mountain Golf Course in Bremerton, Wash., has been selected as the site of the 2006 U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship, the United States Golf Association has announced. The championship will be played from July 10-15.

Gold Mountain will be hosting its first USGA championship. The championship will be played on the Olympic Course, which was designed by John Harbottle and opened in 1996. The 36-hole facility was opened in 1971 and accommodates nearly 105,000 rounds per year.

Gold Mountain has previously served as a site for U.S. Open qualifying in 1999, the PGA Pacific Northwest Sectional Championships and the Washington State Amateur. It will host U.S. Open qualifying again in 2003.

"We are thrilled to host the 2006 U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship and have it return to the Pacific Northwest," said Scott Alexander, Gold Mountain director of golf. "We're very proud of the championship Olympic Course and the promise of a challenging field. Our wilderness setting and Olympic Mountain backdrop combined with superb playing conditions make us a truly unique municipal site."

Past winners of the Amateur Public Links Championship include Billy Mayfair, David Berganio, Trevor Immelman and Hunter Haas. The Amateur Public Links was begun in 1922 for amateurs with no playing privileges at private courses/clubs.

Washington is hosting its first USGA championship since the 1996 USGA Senior Women's Amateur at Broadmoor Golf Club in Seattle. The Amateur Public Links is making its fifth appearance in Washington and first since the 1984 Championship at Indian Canyon Golf Club in Spokane. In all, Washington has hosted 18 previous USGA Championships.

Prior to 2006, the Amateur Public Links will be held at Blue Heron Pines Golf Club in Galloway, N.J., from uly 14-19, 2003; at Rush Creek Golf Club in Maple Grove, Minn., from July 12-17, 2004; and at Shaker Run Golf Club in Lebanon, Ohio, from uly 11-16, 2005.

For more information, contact the USGA Championships Department at (908) 234-2300.

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