Hutchinson, KS
Prairie Dunes Country Club
Prairie Dunes began with the Carey family’s interest in golf and the rolling land around Hutchinson, Kansas. In 1935, they commissioned Perry Maxwell to design a course. The first nine holes opened on September 13, 1937.1
- Location
- Hutchinson, KS
- Course
- 18 holes · par 70
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A Kansas landscape, two generations of Maxwell
The Club became a recurring stage for women’s championship golf. Juli Inkster won the U.S. Women’s Amateur here in 1980 and returned to win the U.S. Women’s Open in 2002. Prairie Dunes also hosted the 1986 Curtis Cup.1
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Championships
Results and dates 9 editions
U.S. Women's Amateur
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U.S. Women’s Amateur
Barbara McIntire
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U.S. Women’s Amateur
Juli Inkster
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U.S. Women’s Amateur
Amy Fruhwirth
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Curtis Cup
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Great Britain and Ireland (Curtis Cup)
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NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship
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Cameron Wilson
U.S. Mid-Amateur
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David Eger
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U.S. Senior Amateur
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James Stahl Jr.
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U.S. Senior Open
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Allen Doyle
U.S. Women's Open
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Juli Inkster
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Sources and editorial notes10 references
Sources for this story
- History Prairie Dunes Country Club
Carey family commission; first nine September 13, 1937; Press Maxwell second nine 1957; hosted championships.
Consulted 2026-09-17
Record sources9 references
- Club mark source
- NCAA: 2025 Division I Mens Golf Championships Records Book Official NCAA team and individual championship records, PDF pages5-9 and39. Separate team/individual awards; NCAA chronology starts1939, not the pre1939 intercollegiate family. Dates remain unasserted except where printed in Houston PDF page14 for1982.
- 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 Prairie Dunes C.C., Hutchinson (8), 2006 Senior Open. Exact physical course and round scope remain unresolved; no single-course inference is made.
- USGA Women's Open Champions and Championship Results The official champions table records the 2002 winner and site. Recorded site text follows that table; no canonical Club or Course identity is inferred. Explicit date span: www.usga.org
- USGA: 2026 U.S. Senior Amateur record book, page 8 Offline: archived primary source /Users/cwhitelam/Documents/AGA Research Archive/shared/usga-championship-records-20261024/26SeniorAm.pdf; SHA-256 db447a8079c9a707c54710acb92d7da567e788bc38b4b449c065d542155ab300. Exact result row: 1995 (Sept. 27 – Oct. 2) James Stahl Jr. d. Rennie Law, 2 and 1; Prairie Dunes C.C., Hutchinson, Kan.; Medalist — 141, William Erwin ; Entries: 2,069 Use the championship final, not the qualifying medalist. Match-play outcomes are not stroke totals. Current routing, scorecard and par are not asserted. The primary result identifies this exact Club and place; the retained named physical Course is its sole Course identity. This links Course identity only, without asserting an unchanged historical routing or scorecard.
- USGA: 2026 U.S. Women’s Amateur Record Book Printed/PDF page 9, 1991 result row. Retrospective completed-championship result and date range.
- USGA: U.S. Mid-Amateur official final result Printed/PDF page 8, 1988 result row. Completed championship, finalists and final match margin are recorded. Match-play margin is not a stroke total. Actual date range transcribed from the retrospective championship results.
- R&A official Curtis Cup match history The primary match-history entry records these dates: 1986 (Aug 1-2): GB&I 13, USA 5; Prairie Dunes Country Club, Kansas Dates corroborated against the retained official USGA 2026 Record Book. No participant, score or historical routing changes are selected.