Waverley Country Club, in Portland, Ore., has been selected by the USGA as the host site for the 2035 U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur and the 2045 U.S. Women’s Amateur Championships, the organization announced today. The championships will be Waverley’s ninth and 10th USGA events.
“We are excited to continue the USGA’s longstanding partnership with Waverley Country Club and bring women’s golf back to such a storied site,” said Mark Hill, USGA managing director, Championships. “Waverley has been the site of many great USGA championships, and we’re excited to build upon that history with two additional events, including a fourth U.S. Women’s Amateur at the club and first since it hosted the milestone 100th edition in 2000.”
Located along the banks of the Willamette River, six miles south of downtown Portland, Waverley’s rich history began in 1896, when Jack Moffat, the club’s first golf professional, routed an initial course with the assistance of several founding members.
In May of 1912, renowned course designer and two-time U.S. Amateur champion H. Chandler Egan oversaw the establishment of the course’s present routing. Drawing inspiration from the Scottish model of grass-faced bunkering, he went on to shape numerous green complexes while guiding a series of course improvements.
In 2009, Gil Hanse was commissioned to develop a restoration plan for Egan’s original design. The goal of the project was to modernize the course while respecting the history and heritage of Egan’s original track. The result is a 6,668-yard, par-71 parkland style course that boasts tilted greens, strategic bunkering and thoughtful elevation changes that challenge each player who steps on the course.
“Waverley Country Club is deeply honored to host the 2035 U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur and the 2045 U.S. Women’s Amateur Championships—continuing our proud legacy of welcoming a USGA championship every decade since the 1950s,” said club president Dan Harmon, “Championship golf has been central to our club’s 130-year history and these two events will mark the ninth and tenth consecutive decades in which a USGA championship has been contested at Waverley. Our course will present a compelling test for the world’s finest women amateur golfers, and our membership—together with the broader Oregon golf community—will deliver unmatched hospitality.”
In addition to its rich history as a renowned Pacific Northwest golf course, Waverley also boasts a long-standing relationship with the USGA, having become a USGA member club in 1903 and hosting eight national championships since.
Waverley Country Club has a rich history of hosting USGA championships, beginning with the 1952 U.S. Women’s Amateur, won by Jackie Pung. The club went on to welcome three more early championships: the 1964 U.S. Senior Amateur, the 1970 U.S. Amateur and the 1981 U.S. Women’s Amateur. In 1993, Tiger Woods added to that legacy, capturing his third consecutive U.S. Junior Amateur title at Waverley. Since 2000, the club has continued to play a prominent role on the USGA stage, hosting the centennial U.S. Women’s Amateur, won by Marcy Newton, as well as the U.S. Senior Women’s Amateir in 2017 and the U.S. Senior Women’s Open in 2023.
In hosting the 2023 U.S. Senior Women’s Open, won by Trish Johnson, the club entered rare territory, becoming just the third venue (alongside Oakmont (Pa.) Country Club and Merion Golf Club in Ardmore, Pa.) to host a USGA championship in every decade since the 1950s.
In addition to hosting eight USGA championships, the club has been the site of many national and state championships, notably the first Oregon amateur championship and the earliest U.S. international golf match, the Blyth Tournament (est. 1897), which has presented its champion with a green jacket since 1930.
Oregon has its own storied history as a site for amateur golf. The state has seen 12 host sites conduct 41 USGA championships (through the 2025 season), with notable events including Tiger Woods’ U.S. Amateur three-peat at Pumpkin Ridge in 1996, the 2006 Curtis Cup at Bandon Dunes and most recently, the 2025 U.S. Women’s Amateur won by Megha Ganne at Bandon Dunes.
The upcoming USGA championship at Waverley in 2035 will be the second U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur held in the state, with the last occurring in 2002 at Pumpkin Ridge.
The 2045 U.S. Women’s Amateur will mark the seventh time the event has been played in Oregon. The championship will also mark the fourth time the U.S. Women’s Amateur has been held at Waverley Country Club, tying the club for most all-time among host sites with Merion G.C and Rhode Island C.C.
The U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur is open to female amateur golfers with a Handicap Index® not exceeding 9.4 and who have reached their 25th birthday by the start of the championship. The field of 132 players competes in two rounds of stroke play, after which the field is reduced to the low 64 scorers for six rounds of match play. The champion earns an exemption into the following year’s U.S. Women’s Open Presented by Ally, which in 2036 will be at the historic Shinnecock Hills Golf Club in Southampton, N.Y. This year’s U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur will be held at Montclair Country Club in West Orange, N.J.
The U.S. Women’s Amateur was first conducted in 1895 as one of the USGA’s first three championships. It is open to female amateurs who have a Handicap Index® not exceeding 5.4. Notable champions include Juli Inkster, Glenna Collett Vare, Patty Berg, Babe Didrikson Zaharias, JoAnne Gunderson Carner (five-time champion), Carol Semple Thompson, Beth Daniel, Danielle Kang and Lydia Ko. The champion earns an exemption into the following year’s U.S. Women’s Open, which in 2046 will be held at Merion Golf Club, in Ardmore, Pa. This year’s U.S. Women’s Amateur will be held at The Honors Course, in Ooltewah, Tenn.