Southampton Campus was a rail station located along the

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of the Long Island Rail Road. Originally a seasonal

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called Golf Grounds, it opened April 1907 to serve sites such as the Shinnecock Hills Golf Club and

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and was closed in 1938. In order to serve the Long Island University's

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(now owned by Stony Brook University) it reopened on May 24, 1976. It was discontinued as a station stop and removed on March 16, 1998, due to low usage, along with a handful of other Long Island Rail Road stations. The station only had an average daily ridership of 16 and the low ridership did not make it cost effective for high level platforms to be installed to accommodate new bilevel rail cars. A temporary station was opened in June 2004 for the U.S. Open and was listed as Shinnecock Hills on special timetables. The same situation occurred in 2018 during the 2018 U.S. Open Golf Championship. The Long Island Rail Road also provided service for spectators traveling to the 1986 U.S. Open, when the station was called Southampton College.

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