Tournament Fact Sheet

U.S. Women’s Amateur Championship Westchester Country Club (West Course) • Rye, N.Y. • August 2-8, 2021

Director of Golf and Grounds Tournament Set-up David Dudones, GCSAA : 36-36--72 Phone: 914-798-5360 Yardage: 6,488 Cell: 973-417-0415 Email: [email protected] Turfgrass Years as GCSAA Member: 23 Greens: Bentgrass .110” Years at Westchester: 8 Tees: Bentgrass .300” Years as a Superintendent: 17 Fairways: Bentgrass / Poa annua .325” Previous Courses: North Jersey CC (super), Westchester Rough: Tall fescue/ryegrass/bluegrass 2.5” CC (asst), Desert Mountain (asst), Engineers CC (asst) Additional Notes Professional Tournaments Hosted: Dudones hosted the • Course hosted the 1923 U.S. Women’s 2015 KPMG Women’s PGA Championship. Amateur, PGA Tour’s Thunderbird Classic (1963-65), Westchester Classic/Buick Classic/Barclays (1967-2007), Senior Player Other Key Golf Personnel Championship (2011) and KPMG Women’s Austin Sevcik, Assistant Director of Golf and Grounds PGA Championship (2015). Andrew Jacobs, West Course Superintendent Tyler Sandefur, South Course Superintendent Grant Harrison, West Course Assistant Dakota Blake, West Course Assistant Patrick Critchley, South Course Assistant

John Flaherty, Equipment Manager Anthony Grasso, Horticulturist Ben Hoffine, PGA Professional

Course Architect Architect (year): Walter T. Travis (1922) Tournament Fact Sheets for the PGA, Renovation Architect (year): Fazio Group – Bryan Bowers LPGA, Champions and Korn Ferry Tours and USGA and PGA of America (2021) championships can be found all year at: 2021 renovation included bunker and green surrounds. A https://www.gcsaa.org/media/tournament- 2014-15 renovation included work on tee boxes. fact-sheets

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