The Country Club Slated as 2024 Golf Venue by Boston Olympic Organizers


Though it's a long way from being a done deal, the organizers behind Boston's bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympics identified historic The Country Club in Brookline as the site of the golf competition.

The course, made famous by amateur Francis Ouimet's improbable victory in the 1913 U.S. Open, was founded in 1882 and is one of the five charter clubs that founded the USGA.

Over the decades it's hosted 12 USGA championships, including U.S. Opens in 1913, 1963 (won by Julius Boros) and 1988 (Curtis Strange). The Country Club's most recent big tournament was the 2013 U.S. Amateur, won by England's Matthew Fitzpatrick.

The Country Club is located 20 minutes from downtown Boston.

Golf will return to the Olympics for the first time since 1904 at the 2016 Rio Olympics. American architect Gil Hanse has designed the new course for those Games. For the 2020 quadrennial event in Japan, golf will be played at Kasumigaseki Country Club in Tokyo.

Other countries potentially bidding for the 2024 Games include Kenya, Morocco, South Africa, Qatar, Australia, Germany, Denmark, France, Russia, Ukraine, Hungary, Turkey and Azerbaijan.