The Ohio Golf Association announced that the Canterbury Golf Club in Beachwood, Ohio will host the 117th Ohio Amateur Championship in July of 2023. They will celebrate the 30th anniversary of longtime Canterbury Golf Club member Robert Fairchild’s Ohio Amateur Championship title. At the age of 42 Fairchild won the 1993 Ohio Amateur Championship on his home course in a playoff over future PGA Tour member Joe Ogilvie. Fairchild a 2015 inductee into the Ohio Golf Hall of Fame continues to be a staple at Canterbury Golf Club celebrating 50 years of membership this year and compiling 16 Club Championships.
This will be third time Canterbury has hosted the Ohio Amateur with the most recent in 2006, when current PGA Tour member Jason Kokrak was victorious. The club also hosted the 1962 Ohio Junior Championship won by Bob Littler.
They have a rich history hosting major championships including the 1940 and 1946 US Opens, 1964 and 1979 US Amateurs, 1973 PGA Championship, 1996 US Senior Open and the 2009 Senior PGA Championship.
