Pebble Beach next up to host U.S. Open golf

Brooks Koepka’s victory Sunday at the U.S. Open did more than make him the event’s first back-to-back champion since Curtis Strange in 1989.

It also put Pebble Beach on the clock.

The Open returns to Northern California next June, for the first time since Webb Simpson won at the Olympic Club in 2012. This will be the sixth U.S. Open held at Pebble; most recently, Graeme McDowell hoisted the trophy there in 2010.

“One year out is obviously a big milestone for us,” Danny Sink, the USGA’s Director of Open Championships, said Monday. “We’ve had people on site at Pebble for more than a year now, prepping for the 2019 Open. This is really happening now.