US Open Golf Tournament 2012
The U.S. Open golf tournament is one of the four golf majors, and it is the one run by the United States Golf Association, one of golf’s two governing bodies. It is played every year in June, and is the second major on the golf calender, after The Masters and before the British Open. The U.S. Open has been played since 1895.
2012 U.S. Open Golf Tournament
• When: June 14-17
• Where: Olympic Club (Lake Course), San Francisco, California
The 18-hole “Lake” course at the The Olympic Club facility in Daly City, California features 6,842 yards of golf from the longest tees for a par of 71 . The course rating is 74.4 and it has a slope rating of 140 on Rye grass. Designed by Wilfrid A. Reid/(R) Robert Trent Jones, ASGCA, the Lake golf course opened in 1924. Dennis Bouey manages the course as the General Manager.
The U.S. Open is the oldest golf championship of national prominence in America with most all the greats of the game winning at least one to justify their historic resumes. It is also known as the second leg in the Grand Slam of Golf.
All the greats of the game have won this tournament except for Sam Snead who very well may be the greatest of all time. The last six U.S. Open champions have been Graeme McDowell winning at Pebble Beach in 2010 and defending here at Congressional, Lucas Glover winning at Bethpage in ’09, Tiger Woods at Torrey Pines in ’08, (his last major to date), Angel Cabrera at Oakmont in ’07, and Geoff Ogilvy at Winged Foot in 06.
Rory McIlroy dominated the 2011 U.S. Open from start to finish, leading after each round and running away to an 8-stroke victory. McIlroy set a slew of tournament records along the way, and erased the memory of his final-round meltdown at The Masters just a couple months earlier. McIlroy did all this at age 22. The runner-up at Congressional Country Club was another golfer in his early 20s, Jason Day. Scores/Recap
Rory’s records
Final Leaders
Rory McIlroy, 268
Jason Day 276
Kevin Chappell 278
Robert Garrigus, 278
Lee Westwood, 278
Y.E. Yang, 278
Peter Hanson, 279
Sergio Garcia, 279
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Previous U.S. Opens played at Congressional:
1997 U.S. Open
1964 U.S. Open
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