Rhode Island Country Club in Barrington, R.I., will host the 2011 U.S. Women’s Amateur Championship, and The Country Club in Cleveland, Ohio, will host the 2012 U.S. Women’s Amateur Championship, the United States Golf Association (USGA) recently announced.

Designed by Donald Ross and opened in 1911, Rhode Island CC will be hosting its fourth U.S. Women’s Amateur (other years were 1924, 1953 and 1987) and its fifth USGA championship overall (including the 1975 USGA Senior Women’s Amateur).

The Country Club was founded in 1889 and moved to its current location in 1930. The golf course was designed by William Flynn and underwent a restoration by Brit Stenson of IMG Design in 2002. The club was the site of the 1935 U.S. Amateur Championship, when Lawson Little completed his famed “Little Slam” by winning both the U.S. and British Amateur titles in two consecutive years. The Country Club has since hosted numerous local and state amateur championships. The 2012 U.S. Women’s Amateur will be held from August 6-12.

The 2009 U.S. Women’s Amateur will be played at Old Warson Country Club in St. Louis, Mo., August 3-9, and the 2010 U.S. Women’s Amateur will be played at Charlotte (N.C.) Country Club, August 9-15.