Claims: US Open host Shinnecock shares a complicated past with golf and American history
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- title: US Open host Shinnecock shares a complicated past with golf and American history Source
- url: https://ictnews.org/sports/us-open-host-shinnecock-shares-a-complicated-past-with-golf-and-american-history/ Source
- summary: Eddie Pells Associated Press SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. — A slice of golf history merges with a piece of American history whenever the U.S. Open returns to one of its most storied landscapes, Shinnecock Hills. The golf course, a links-style masterpiece that was one of the USGA’s five founding clubs in the 1890s, lies across ancient burial grounds that once belonged to the Shinnecock Nation, whose own people built the course. A Window on History: Native legacy shines at Shinnecock Hills On Thursday, 156 p… Source
- published: Thu, 18 Jun 2026 03:00:00 +0000 Source