The US Golf Assocation, the sport's domestic governing body, has announced that the US Open, one of the sport's four annual majors, will be played at Winged Foot Golf Club in New York in 2020.

It will be the sixth time that the Mamaroneck-based course has staged the tournament, most recently in 2006.

In 2008, members of Winged Foot turned down an invitation from the USGA to host the 2015 US Open, which will instead be played at Chambers Bay in University Place, Washington.

Tom O’Toole, chairman of the USGA’s championship committee, said: "Winged Foot is one of the quintessential US Open sites. It really is one of those golf courses that is a fabulous test of golf, and that trumps everything else.

"We realise the imposition that this creates on a club. We have to be very delicate with how we approach this. The New York area is a special place for us. To be able to go to that market on a course like Winged Foot, and with the strength of corporate America in the area, it’s a great combination."

The tournament will be the 20th US Open to be played in New York, the most of any US state.

This year's US Open will be played at Merion Golf Club in Ardmore, Pennsylvania in June.

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