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CHEROKEE - Harrah’s Cherokee Casino & Hotel recently celebrated its grand opening of the Sequoyah National Golf Club, an 18-hole, par 72 championship course.  Designed by world-renowned golf architect Robert Trent Jones II along with Native American golf professional Notah Begay III, the new casino golf course is owned by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and managed by Troon Golf, a prominent developer, marketer and manager of upscale golf properties. 

Already considered one of the most dynamic golf courses in the region, Sequoyah National, located off Highway 441 in Cherokee, NC, is set against the spectacular backdrop of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, with dramatic views of Clingmans Dome peak, the Snowbird Mountain range and Thomas Valley. 

The United States Golf Association has announced that the 2014 U.S. Open and U.S. Women's Open will be played in consecutive weeks on the No. 2 course at Pinehurst Resort & Country Club in the Village of Pinehurst, N.C. The U.S. Open will be conducted June 12-15, and the U.S. Women's Open will be played June 19-22.

It will mark the first time the two national championships will be contested on the same course in back-to-back weeks.