The Robert Trent Jones-designed South golf course at Wilmington Country Club has twice played host to the US Junior Amateur.
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The Robert Trent Jones-designed South golf course at Wilmington Country Club has twice played host to the US Junior Amateur.
The Robert Trent Jones-designed South course at Wilmington Country Club has twice played host to the US Junior Amateur. In 1978, for the first time in history, the USGA scheduled the Junior Amateur over the South course of Wilmington Country Club, while the Girls’ Junior was simultaneously staged on the North course. Sticking with the US Junior Amateur, the longest 18-hole final match in history was played over the South course in 1978. Donald Hurter defeated Keith Banes after 21 holes.
The South course opened in 1960, a year before the 18 holes on the shorter, Dick Wilson-designed North debuted. Characterised by heavily bunkered fairways and large, multi-tiered greens, the South course contains half a dozen holes where water looms large.
The 585-yard par five 3rd heads downhill to a green fronted by water and surrounded by sand to the right, left and behind. On the inward half, the 203-yard par three 17th plays across another water hazard to a tricky “L”-shaped putting surface.
Architect Keith Foster is credited with conducting a renovation of the course in 2008.
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