US Senior Open in Omaha 2021
Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2017 8:02 am
U.S. Senior Open coming back to Omaha Country Club in 2021, tying record for soonest return to a course
The U.S. Senior Open golf tournament, in record-tying time, is coming back to Omaha.
Omaha Country Club will host the 2021 championship, eight years after its first Senior Open.
Tournament dates will be July 8 to 11, 2021. There could be 20 hours or more of live telecasts on Fox and Fox Sports.
The economic impact from the 2013 Senior Open was reported in a USGA press release the following February as exceeding $50 million.
The numbers explain why the USGA wanted to come back to Omaha. For the 2013 Senior Open, corporate hospitality sales were a record $5.6 million, ticket sales topped $2 million for only the third time, the weeklong attendance of 157,126 ranked second all-time and the volunteer force of 3,000 was lined up nine months in advance.
The 32,994 spectators for the Saturday round, then the 34,354 on Sunday for the final round, set records for the largest single-day attendance at an Omaha sporting event.
Since 2013, none of the subsequent Senior Opens has come close to Omaha’s large galleries. From news reports, weeklong attendance was 107,217 at Oak Tree in Edmond, Oklahoma, in 2014; 115,006 at Del Paso in Sacramento, California, in 2015; and no more than 100,000, because of weather, at Scioto in Columbus, Ohio, last year.
