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CC of Charleston to host 2019 U.S. Women’s Open

The Country Club of Charleston (S.C.) will play host to the 2019 U.S. Women’s Open, the U.S. Golf Association announced Tuesday. The event will be held May 30-June 2. The Seth Raynor design previously hosted the 2013 U.S. Women’s Amateur, won by Alabama’s Emma Talley.

The course opened in 1925 and held the PGA Tour’s Charleston Open from 1933 to ’37. Since 1946, the club has hosted the Azalea Invitational.

Henry Picard, winner of 1938 Masters and 1939 PGA Championship, was a longtime member. Beth Daniel, like the late Picard a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame, learned the game at Country Club of Charleston before going on to win 33 LPGA titles.