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BOSTON (AP) The U.S. Senior Open is returning to the Salem Country Club in 2017.
It will be the sixth USGA championship at the Donald Ross-designed course. Bruce Fleischer won the Senior Open there in 2001.
Tim Flaherty of the USGA says the course was the biggest reason why they're coming back. And he says it doesn't need much work to get it ready for the event.
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Flaherty says the 2001 U.S. Senior Open sold out all 15,000 spectator day passes a year in advance - the only time that's happened in the tournament's history. Another 10,000 daily corporate tickets were sold.
The Salem Country Club in Peabody, Massachusetts, also hosted the 1932 U.S. Women's Amateur, the 1977 U.S. Men's Senior Amateur and the 1954 and '84 U.S. Women's Open.
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