Locust Hill Country Club is a championship golf club located in the Towns of

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and

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, suburbs six miles (10 km) southeast of downtown

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Golf course

The club was founded in 1925 as a nine-hole golf course on the Locust Hill farm of Frank Zornow in the Town of Henrietta, bordering the Town of Pittsford. In 1927, members purchased the Brei Farm on the south side of Jefferson Road in Pittsford, and it reopened as an 18-hole course in 1931, redesigned by golf course architect

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. This par 72 (35, 37) course is one of the country's top courses, along with Rochester's Oak Hill Country Club, and

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. Despite being a relatively short course at , it has proven to be difficult year after year with tight fairways and tough greens. The

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is 72.8 with a

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of 138. In 1966, a charity event was held at LHCC in which RDGA members played with stars such as

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and Jack Nicklaus. Nicklaus drove the green on a par 4 and two-putted for

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, while Palmer holed out for

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on the eighth hole. Both stated their love for the course after their rounds.

LPGA

From

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to 2009, Locust Hill CC was the host of the annual

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tournament, one of the most popular annual events on the

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. The tournament was formerly known as the Bankers Trust Classic (1977–78), Sarah Coventry (1979–81), Rochester International (1982–97), Wegmans Rochester International (1998–2001) and Wegmans Rochester LPGA (2002–05). Locust Hill was the site of

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's fifth consecutive LPGA tournament victory in 1978, a record-setting performance. From 2010 to

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, it hosted the

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in June, one of the four major championships. The 2010 title was won by Cristie Kerr at 269 (−19), a dozen strokes ahead of the field. In 2011,

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won by ten strokes, again at 269 (–19). With longer rough in

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won her first event on tour by two strokes with a 282 (–6). Top-ranked

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won in 2013, in a sudden-death playoff over Catriona Matthew. The event moved a few miles east to nearby

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in 2014.

Scorecard

References

External links

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Wegmans LPGA Championship

– Robert Trent Jones {{coord, 43, 05, 17, N, 77, 33, 48, W, display=t, type:landmark Golf clubs and courses in New York (state) Sports venues in Monroe County, New York 1931 establishments in New York (state)