Salem Country Club

Salem Country Club, established in 1895 in Salem Massachusetts, came to its current site in Peabody in 1925. Designed by Donald Ross, Salem Country Club is consistently listed as one of Golf Digest's "Top 100 Golf Courses." Salem has hosted five national championships. These include the 1932 USGA Women's Amateur, the 1954 USGA Women's Open, the 1977 USGA Men's Senior Amateur, the 1984 USGA Women's Open, and the 2001 Men's Senior Open Championship, and the 2017 Men's Senior Open Championship. The hilly fairways leave few level lies for approach shots into strategically-bunkered, crowned greens. (A Donald Ross trademark.) The difficult rough makes accuracy essential. Water hazards are limited and penalizing, but not intrusive.<br> <br> - courtesy Salem Country Club