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Hazeltine keeps up – thanks to the Jones family
Golf's greatest team competition, the Ryder Cup, will stage its 2016 edition at Hazeltine National Golf Club from September 30 to October 2.
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Hazeltine's championship course is the ongoing legacy of the renowned Jones family of golf architects.
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Rees Jones has been overseeing the course, located at Chaska near Minneapolis, since preparing it for the 1991 US Open.
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American Ryder Cup star Payne Stewart won that major, 21 years after future Europe team captain Tony Jacklin of Britain won Hazeltine's first US Open.
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Hazeltine was created by Robert Trent Jones Sr. -- Rees' father -- who is pictured at the 1991 US Open.
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It first hosted the PGA Championship in 2002, two years after Jones Sr. passed away at the age of 93.
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Lightning storms affected the 2002 tournament, meaning the second round was suspended while ground staff made the course playable.
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That year Rich Beem -- pictured hitting out of the bunker at hole No. 8 -- was a surprise champion, with Tiger Woods runner-up. It would be Beem's only major title.
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Woods was beaten again at Hazeltine in the 2009 PGA Championship -- the first time he hadn't won a major after leading going into the final round. YE Yang became Asia's first major champion, and the South Korean has yet to win another.
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Picturesque Hazeltine has also hosted the US Women's Open and the men's US Amateur.
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A view inside the clubhouse at Hazeltine.
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Its "Hall of Champions" marks the club's greatest achievements.
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It includes a display of memorabilia from the 1970 and 1991 US Opens and the 1983 US Senior Open, won by Billy Casper.
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