Indianwood Golf and Country Club and the Orion community will be back on national radar, as the club and the United States Golf Association announced Thursday their agreement to stage the 2012 U.S. Senior Open on the old course.
‘This has been a long time coming,? said course owner Stan Aldridge. ‘When we bought Indianwood back in 1981, it was our objective to get a major championship in here.?
The course previously hosted the U.S. Women’s Open in 1989 and again on short notice in 1994.
The notion of hosing a senior open became a possibility after the Ford Senior Players Championship (a longtime major on the Senior and then Champions Tour) left Dearborn after 2006.
‘We’re delighted to come back and bring the U.S. Senior Open to the Detroit area,? said Jeff Hall from the USGA.
The event will be held July 12-15, 2012, with the weekend draws expected to come close to, or even exceed, 20,000 spectators.
Look for more on this story in next week’s Lake Orion Review.