Bandon Dunes to Host 13 USGA Amateur Championships

The United States Golf Association (USGA) announced that Bandon Dunes will host 13 USGA amateur championships over the next 23 years. As part of the agreement, Bandon Dunes will host the U.S. Women's Amateur and U.S. Amateur in 2032 and 2041, marking the first time those two original USGA championships will be contested at the same site in the same calendar year. The agreement also includes the 2029 Walker Cup Match and the 2038 Curtis Cup Match.

Future USGA Championships at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort: * 2022 U.S. Junior Amateur * 2025 U.S. Women's Amateur * 2029 Walker Cup Match * 2032 U.S. Amateur and U.S. Women's Amateur * 2035 U.S. Girls' Junior * 2037 U.S. Amateur Four-Ball and U.S. Women's Amateur Four-Ball * 2038 Curtis Cup Match * 2041 U.S. Amateur and U.S. Women's Amateur * 2045 U.S. Junior Amateur and U.S. Girls' Junior

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About Brian Weis

Publisher and Golf Traveler | GolfTrips.com

Brian Weis is the mastermind behind GolfTrips.com, a vast network of golf travel and directory sites covering everything from the rolling fairways of Wisconsin to the sunbaked desert layouts of Arizona. If there’s a golf destination worth visiting, chances are, Brian has written about it, played it, or at the very least, found a way to justify a "business trip" there.

As a card-carrying member of the Golf Writers Association of America (GWAA), International Network of Golf (ING), Golf Travel Writers of America (GTWA), International Golf Travel Writers Association (IGTWA), and The Society of Hickory Golfers (SoHG), Brian has the credentials to prove that talking about golf is his full-time job. In 2016, his peers even handed him The Shaheen Cup, a prestigious award in golf travel writing, essentially the Masters green jacket for guys who don’t hit the range but still know where the best 19th holes are.

Brian’s love for golf goes way back. As a kid, he competed in junior and high school golf, only to realize that his dreams of a college golf scholarship had about the same odds as a 30-handicap making a hole-in-one. Instead, he took the more practical route - working on the West Bend Country Club grounds crew to fund his University of Wisconsin education. Little did he know that mowing greens and fixing divots would one day lead to a career writing about the best courses on the planet.

In 2004, Brian turned his golf passion into a business, launching GolfWisconsin.com. Three years later, he expanded his vision, and GolfTrips.com was born - a one-stop shop for golf travel junkies looking for their next tee time. Today, his empire spans all 50 states, and 20+ international destinations.

On the course, Brian is a weekend warrior who oscillates between a 5 and 9 handicap, depending on how much he's been traveling (or how generous he’s feeling with his scorecard). His signature move" A high, soft fade that his playing partners affectionately (or not-so-affectionately) call "The Weis Slice." But when he catches one clean, his 300+ yard drives remind everyone that while he may write about golf for a living, he can still send a ball into the next zip code with the best of them.

Whether he’s hunting down the best public courses, digging up hidden gems, or simply outdriving his buddies, Brian Weis is living proof that golf is more than a game, it’s a way of life.