West Newton, MA
Brae Burn Country Club
Brae Burn began as a nine-hole club in 1897. Its own history credits Mrs. George Frost with suggesting a Scottish name for a place of slopes and a brook. The emblem also evolved early: a thistle adopted at the founding gave way to a four-leaf clover in 1900.
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Courses
Course design
Women’s championship golf at Brae Burn
Women’s championship golf forms a substantial part of the Club’s history. Harriot Curtis won the U.S. Women’s Amateur here in 1906; Beth Daniel secured the 1975 title with a fifteen-foot birdie putt on the sixteenth. Silvia Cavalleri won the championship when it returned in the Club’s centennial year, 1997.
Championships
Results and dates 8 editions
U.S. Women's Amateur
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U.S. Women’s Amateur
Harriot S. Curtis
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U.S. Women’s Amateur
Beth Daniel
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U.S. Women’s Amateur
Silvia Cavalleri
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Curtis Cup
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Tied
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United States (Curtis Cup)
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U.S. Amateur
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Robert T. Jones Jr.
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U.S. Open
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Walter Hagen
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U.S. Women's Mid-Amateur
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U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur
Hana Ryskova
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In the archive
Sources and editorial notes12 references
Sources for this story
- Our History Brae Burn Country Club
1897: nine-hole founding, Mrs. Frost naming and thistle. 1900: clover emblem. 1906: Harriot Curtis. 1975: Beth Daniel’s 15-foot putt on hole16. 1997: centennial and Silvia Cavalleri.
Consulted 2026-11-13
Record sources11 references
- Club Amenities Golf: named 9-Hole Highland Course alongside 18-hole Championship Course.
- 10 Things To Know: Brae Burn Country Club Section 9, The Highland Course; sections 4 and 8 for separately scoped historical context.
- Club mark source
- Brae Burn Country Club
- GCSANE: The Newsletter, November 1999
- USGA: 2026 U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur Record Book Championship Results: 1987 to 2025, PDF page 8, 2024 entry: Hana Ryskova defeated Lindsay Gahm, 5 and 4, at Brae Burn Country Club. The date range is printed explicitly in the USGA record book and the 2024 match-play bracket.
- USGA: 2026 U.S. Women’s Amateur Record Book Printed/PDF page 9, 1997 result row. Retrospective completed-championship result and date range.
- R&A official Curtis Cup match history The primary match-history entry records these dates: 1970 (Aug 7-8): USA 11½, GB&I 6½; Brae Burn Country Club, Massachusetts Dates corroborated against the retained official USGA 2026 Record Book. No participant, score or historical routing changes are selected.
- USGA: 2024 U.S. Amateur Record Book Printed/PDF page 9, 1928 result row. Robert T. Jones Jr. d. T. Phillip Perkins, 10 and 9. Match margins and extra-hole lengths are not stroke totals. Actual dates from the retrospective result table.
- 2026 USGA Championships Media Guide - U.S. Open The official 2026 USGA Championship Record Book directly enumerates the completed 1919 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 Brae Burn C.C., West Newton, Mass. is explicitly reconciled to Brae Burn Country Club in West Newton, 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