[2] In 2024, the USGA moved its Testing Center from Liberty Corner, New Jersey to Pinehurst, North Carolina.

Amateur was held in 1895 at the Newport Country Club, with Charles B. Macdonald (who was runner-up at both of the previous year's tournaments) winning the championship.

Today, the USGA administers 14 separate national championships, ten of which are expressly for amateurs.

Membership fell off during the Great Depression and World War II, but recovered by 1947.

She brought the USGA partnerships with major corporations and negotiated a billion-dollar deal with the Fox TV network.

In August 2018, she left to become the 20th chief executive officer of the United States Olympic Committee.

[7] The USGA organizes or co-organizes the following competitions: An "open" golf championship is one that both professionals and amateurs may enter.

The USGA, in cooperation with The R&A, co-organizes two biennial amateur team competitions between the United States and a joint team representing Great Britain and Ireland (in political terms, Ireland and the United Kingdom).

Through its membership of the International Golf Federation the USGA is involved in the administration of the two "World Amateur Team Championships", which are played biennially in even-numbered years.

The first-place winner took home a replica of the U.S. Open trophy and won a trip for two to Pebble Beach for the next year's event.