Sammamish, WA
Sahalee Country Club
Sahalee emerged from two groups exploring a new club in 1965, including members of Inglewood and Broadmoor. They combined in 1966 and acquired land on the Sammamish Plateau the following year. Ted Robinson designed the course, with Louie Schmidt overseeing construction.1
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Two founding groups meet on the plateau
The Club later prepared for national competition through Rees Jones’s work on the North and South nines in 1996. The 1998 PGA Championship was followed by the 2010 U.S. Senior Open and Women’s PGA Championships in 2016 and 2024, extending its major-championship history across several tours.1
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Championships
Results and dates 4 editions
GTE Northwest Classic
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Bruce Crampton
PGA Championship
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Vijay Singh
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U.S. Senior Open
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Bernhard Langer
WGC Invitational
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WGC-NEC Invitational
Craig Parry
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Sources and editorial notes11 references
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Consulted 2026-09-21
Record sources10 references
- Sahalee golf overview The club explicitly publishes East/South as an 18-hole pairing of two of its three nine-hole courses. Preserve the combination identity and existing scorecard; this is not a separate fourth physical course. Retained source SHA-256 0da755f9a7f84f93f38d3f1bc1cf8f4ff6e40de6d27cd3ca762b9133140fca2a; retrieved 2026-11-02T23:15:22.630377+00:00.
- Sahalee Country Club official Golf Overview The Club identifies South/North as an 18-hole routing assembled from its South and North nines and publishes routing-specific yardages. This verifies an existing championship routing, not a fourth independent physical course. Existing physical facts and the combination flag remain unchanged.
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- PGA Tour: U.S. Senior Open verified results PGA Tour 2015 Champions media guide, PDF page 213 / printed page 212, year row establishes a completed championship and named winner. No event dates are inferred from advertised schedules. Host-club evidence: www.usga.org.
- USGA: Host States and Clubs, 1895 to Present (as of October 13, 2025) Gold club identity reviewed against the source host entry Sahalee C.C., Sammamish, 2010 Senior Open. Exact physical course and round scope remain unresolved; no single-course inference is made.
- PGA TOUR 2019 WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational Media Guide PDF page 28 records this completed tournament. Historical competition dates are not inferred from event-week headings.
- AmateurGolf.com, Sahalee Players Championship report, July 8, 2005 The July 8, 2005 report explicitly identifies the South and North nines as the routing used for the WGC-NEC Invitational. PGA TOUR 2019 guide PDF page 28 establishes the 2002 event at Sahalee. The routing evidence is secondary reporting; the winner and event venue are official TOUR results.
- 2026 PGA Championship Media Guide The official Media Guide directly enumerates the 80th playing, champion, site, and its year-page date span. The recorded venue and champion preserve the official PGA Championship History entry’s published text.
- PGA Championship host record The 1998 PGA record names Sahalee. The canonical Club name and state match the dated PGA host record. The imported combination routings require explicit historical tournament-routing identity. Host and competition dates: www.pgachampionship.com
- PGA TOUR: official 2006 Champions Tour media guide PDF page 245, printed 5-27, 1986 entry: GTE Northwest Classic. Exact competitive-day boundaries remain unverified.