Back to the Sports Tech Newsfeed

USGA Will Transport Fans to 1895 in New US Open Experience

The U.S. Golf Association will host an interactive experience at the U.S. Open this year featuring a 117-year history of golf as told through historical media content and data.

Fans entering the experience will be taken through the sport’s most storied moments and championships in the form of immersive videos, photos, articles, scoring and player statistics.

The U.S. Open History Experience features archives tapped from the USGA Golf Museum, including publications, periodicals, magazines, daily newspapers and personal correspondence dating as far back as the first championship in 1895.

“Whether it is Ben Hogan’s 1-iron at Merion in 1950 or Tiger Woods’ putt at Torrey Pines in 2008, the U.