Shinnecock Hills to host 2018 US Open

Shinnecock Hills, the course which caused so much controversy the last time the US Open was held there seven years ago, will stage the event again in 2018.

"We are thrilled that our national championship will return to one of our country's most-storied venues," said United States Golf Association president Jim Hyler on Wednesday.

"We are confident that Shinnecock Hills will provide a true challenge for the world's premier players, as it has for more than a century."
Retief Goosen won in 2004, but only after play in the final round had to be suspended after the seventh green became virtually unplayable.
After three of the first four players on the 189-yard par three hole had taken triple bogeys and the other a miraculous bogey the action was halted so that hoses could be used to soften the surface.
Officials stood accused of waiting far too long before taking action. Of the first 34 players to finish 16 failed to break 80.
Tiger Woods shot 76 for 17th place on 10 over par and said: 'It's terrible in our national championship that they lost control of the course. They just lost it - it got away from them."
The 2018 championship will be the fifth US Open on the New York Long Island lay-out. James Foulis won in 1896, Roy Floyd in 1986 and then Corey Pavin in 1995.
Next year the tournament returns to the Olympic Club in San Francisco, then it visits Merion, Pinehurst, Chambers Bay and Oakmont.