https://pinhighpress.com/tags/hugh-wilson/ Recent content in Hugh Wilson on Pin High Press Hugo en-us Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://pinhighpress.com/posts/merion-east-course-profile/ Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://pinhighpress.com/posts/merion-east-course-profile/ <p>Most golf courses that host a U.S. Open get bigger afterwards. Land is bought, tees are pushed back, a corporate village materialises somewhere that used to be trees. Merion&rsquo;s East Course, tucked into Haverford Township on Philadelphia&rsquo;s Main Line, has spent more than a century doing the opposite: staying almost exactly as small as it started, and daring the USGA to keep coming back anyway. The USGA keeps coming back. Merion has hosted five U.S. Opens, more USGA championships of any kind than any course in the country, and its most improbable trick is that it manages this from just 126 acres of land, a footprint so tight that a modern tournament infrastructure barely fits around the edges of it.</p>