2024 Big Ten Men's Golf Championships presented by Old National Bank

Designed as the first 18-hole golf course in central Ohio by renowned Scottish-born architect Donald Ross, it later became the Club where golf’s greatest player, Jack Nicklaus, learned the game. With the opening of the golf course in 1916, the Club quickly gained national stature as a pre-eminent facility and a decade later hosted the 1926 U.S. Open Championship won by golfing legend Bobby Jones. This started the rich tournament tradition that Scioto enjoys as one of only five golf courses in the United States to have hosted five different major championships. The 1931 Ryder Cup, the 1950 PGA Championship, the 1968 U.S. Amateur, and the 1986 Senior U.S. Open each added to the tournament legacy and prestige of the Club. During its Centennial year in 2016, the Club again hosted the U.S. Senior Open marking its sixth major championship held at Scioto. Scioto provided the connection between the two greatest names in golf in the 20th Century, that of Jones and Nicklaus. The golf course has been acclaimed around the world as a strategic routing and a course that demands precise shot-making. In its history, the Club boasts four golf professionals (Club professionals George Sargent, Jack Grout, and Walker Inman, Jr. and legendary Jack Nicklaus) that are in the PGA Hall of Fame. Top amateur players, both male and female, honed their skills under the tutelage of these great professionals. The golf course, recently renovated in 2021 by Andrew Green, used the 1926 "Dodo Bird" drawing to restore the original Donald Ross course that hosted the 1926 National Open and the 1931 Ryder Cup. Fairway widths were widened to original size, Ross designed features such as hummocks and flat bottom bunkers were again restored to showcase the original design while built for the modern player. Features that were removed in previous renovations, were restored and the greens were rebuilt in the style that represented the era when the course first opened over 100 years ago. Today, the course provides a great test to the finest players in the world, ready to host major championships, and yet is one that is most enjoyable for all levels of players. The USGA will return to Scioto for the 2026 U.S. Senior Open and the 2036 U.S. Amateur Championship.

1928 Big Ten Championships
Scioto hosted this prestigious event in 1928. The Club’s second Head Golf Professional, George Sargent, also coached the Ohio State Men’s Golf Team to victory during the event on his home turf. All the while his son, Albert Sargent, earned second place individual score for the Buckeyes. After 96 years, Scioto is honored to host the Men’s Big Ten Championship again on the very same stage.