The Francis D. Ouimet Memorial Trophy

U.S. Senior Open Championship

Presented annually by the USGA since 1980

The U.S. Senior Open, first contested in 1980, is a relatively new USGA championship, yet the Francis D. Ouimet Memorial Trophy is in fact the oldest of the USGA’s trophies. In 1894, the Tuxedo Club of Tuxedo Park, N.Y., invited three other clubs – Shinnecock Hills  Golf  Club,  Saint  Andrew’s  Golf  Club and The Country Club (Brookline, Mass.) – to compete in the first American interclub tournament. The Country Club retained possession of the trophy until the mid-1950s, when it was given to the USGA Golf Museum for exhibition. As the USGA prepared for the inaugural U.S. Senior Open, The Country Club suggested the trophy be used as the formal award for the championship. The trophy was presented “by The Country Club and Golfers of Massachusetts,” and formally dedicated to Ouimet, the 1913 U.S. Open champion and two-time U.S. Amateur champion.