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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Eddie Pells

US Open host Shinnecock shares a complicated past with golf and American history

US Open Golf - (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

A slice of golf history merges with a piece of American history whenever the U.S. Open returns to one of its most storied landscapes, Shinnecock Hills.

The golf course, a links-style masterpiece that was one of the USGA's five founding clubs in the 1890s, lies across ancient burial grounds that once belonged to the Shinnecock Nation, whose own people built the course.

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