Carmel, IN
Crooked Stick Golf Club
Crooked Stick began in 1964 when Pete Dye and a group of sixty Indianapolis-area golfers organized to buy a flat cornfield. Pete and Alice Dye developed the course into an expression of the golf they admired in Britain.1
- Location
- Carmel, IN
- Course
- 18 holes · par 72
- Club website
- Visit website
A cornfield and sixty supporters
Its championship history later included John Daly’s victory in the 1991 PGA Championship and Lauri Merten’s win in the 1993 U.S. Women’s Open. The Club hosted the Solheim Cup in 2005.1
The course
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Championships
- 2020 Western AmateurCrooked Stick Golf Club
- 2016 BMW ChampionshipCrooked Stick Golf Club
- 2012 BMW ChampionshipCrooked Stick Golf Club
- 2009 U.S. Senior OpenCrooked Stick Golf Club
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Results and dates 10 editions
BMW Championship
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Rory McIlroy
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Dustin Johnson
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PGA Championship
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John Daly
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U.S. Junior Amateur
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Rich Marik
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U.S. Mid-Amateur
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James Taylor
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U.S. Senior Amateur
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William Hyndman III
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U.S. Senior Open
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Fred Funk
U.S. Women's Amateur
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U.S. Women’s Amateur
Maria José Uribe
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U.S. Women's Open
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Lauri Merten
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Western Amateur
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Pierceson Coody
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Sources and editorial notes13 references
Sources for this story
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Consulted 2026-09-21
Record sources12 references
- Club mark source
- Western Golf Association: 2025 Western Amateur Records and Statistics Guide WGA completed championship result; detailed guide PDF page58 and venue/summary table.
- Western Golf Association: 2025 BMW / Western Open Records and Statistics Guide PDF page 179, 2016 chapter, plus summary page 9. Competition dates come from the actual year chapter; institutional venue and champion are independently cross-checked against the official publisher chronology.
- 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 Crooked Stick G.C., Carmel (6), 2009 Senior Open. Exact physical course and round scope remain unresolved; no single-course inference is made.
- USGA: 2026 U.S. Women’s Amateur Record Book Printed/PDF page 10, 2007 result row. Retrospective completed-championship result and date range.
- USGA Women's Open Champions and Championship Results The official champions table records the 1993 winner and site. Recorded site text follows that table; no canonical Club or Course identity is inferred. Explicit date span: www.usga.org
- 2026 PGA Championship Media Guide The official Media Guide directly enumerates the 73rd 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 1991 PGA record names Crooked Stick. The host Club is verified; the exact course and routing used for this edition have not been confirmed.
- USGA: U.S. Mid-Amateur official final result Printed/PDF page 8, 1989 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.
- USGA: 2026 U.S. Senior Amateur record book, page 7 Offline: archived primary source /Users/cwhitelam/Documents/AGA Research Archive/shared/usga-championship-records-20261024/26SeniorAm.pdf; SHA-256 db447a8079c9a707c54710acb92d7da567e788bc38b4b449c065d542155ab300. Exact result row: 1983 (Sept. 19-24) William Hyndman III d. Richard Runkle, 1 up; Crooked Stick G.C., Carmel, Ind.; Medalist — 148, Edgar R. Updegraff ; Entries: 1,102 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: U.S. Junior Amateur official final result Printed/PDF page 8, 1982 result row. Completed championship and final result. Rich Marik defeated Tim Straub, 4 and 3. Actual date range from the retrospective result table.