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South Hamilton, MA
Myopia Hunt Club
At Myopia Hunt Club in Hamilton, Massachusetts, golf entered a landscape already devoted to hunting and polo. The Massachusetts Golf Association’s history credits master of foxhounds R. M. Hamilton with staking out an initial nine holes in spring 1894.1
- Location
- South Hamilton, MA
- Course
- 18 holes · par 72
- Club website
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Golf enters an equestrian landscape
The course
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Championships
Results and dates 4 editions
U.S. Open
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Fred Herd
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Willie Anderson
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Willie Anderson
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Fred McLeod
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Sources and editorial notes5 references
Sources for this story
- A Commonwealth of Golfers Massachusetts Golf Association
PDF page 74 (printed page 68), Four U.S. Opens in Ten Years, by John P. English: Hamilton, Leeds, design features and four Opens.
Consulted 2026-09-17 - Class of 2025 Mass Golf
Association founders; inaugural 1903 Amateur at Myopia
Consulted 2026-09-17
Record sources
- golfcoursegurus
- 2026 USGA Championships Media Guide - U.S. Open The official 2026 USGA Championship Record Book directly enumerates the completed 1908 Championship, champion, explicit date span, and site in Championship Results: 1895 to 2025. The recorded champion and site preserve the higher-resolution register text. The current official U.S. Open Champions table independently confirms the year, champion, and site.
- USGA championship host record Dated USGA host wording Myopia Hunt Club, South Hamilton, Mass. is explicitly reconciled to Myopia Hunt Club in South Hamilton, MA. The dated register identifies the Club. A continuing physical Course identity is not inferred from a single stored Course or an unqualified venue name. Host and competition dates: www.usga.org