US Open 2018 Dates

The U.S. Open is one of the four major championships of men's professional golf. It is the national championship of the United States Golf Association. Here is information on the 2018 U.S. Open golf tournament:
Dates: June 16-19, 2018
Location: Oakmont Country Club in Oakmont, Pennsylvania

The U.S. Open is returning to majestic Oakmont C.C. for a record ninth time and International Sports Management is prepared to host you in well-appointed fashion. Oakmont is renowned in the world of golf for doing things the way its founders wanted, which has worked just fine. It was designed as a links style course in Western Pennsylvania with nary a water hazard. There is a devilishly difficult bunker aptly nicknamed Church Pews. Opened in 1903, to date Oakmont has hosted 20 national championships. Some of golf’s greatest have tasted victory here such as Bobby Jones, Sam Snead, Ben Hogan, and Jack Nicklaus. (No Tiger Woods or Phil Mickelson, yet.) A quote that best sums Oakmont was uttered by the great Walter Hagen after the 1935 Open when he said: “It’s a duffer’s course. It makes duffers of us all.”

US Open Tournament

The first U.S. Open was played on October 4, 1895, on a nine-hole course at the Newport Country Club in Newport, Rhode Island. It was a 36-hole competition and was played in a single day. Ten professionals and one amateur entered. The winner was a 21-year-old Englishman named Horace Rawlins, who had arrived in the U.S. in January that year to take up a position at the host club. He received $150 cash out of a prize fund of $335, plus a $50 gold medal; his club received the Open Championship Cup trophy, which was presented by the USGA.

In the beginning, the tournament was dominated by experienced British players until 1911, when John J. McDermott became the first native-born American winner. American golfers soon began to win regularly and the tournament evolved to become one of the four majors.
U.S. Open Trophy at the 2008 PGA Golf Show.
Since 1911, the title has been won mostly by players from the United States. Since 1950, players from only six countries other than the United States have won the championship, most notably South Africa, which has won five times since 1965. A streak of four consecutive non-American winners occurred from 2004 to 2007 for the first time since 1910. These four players, South African Retief Goosen (2004), New Zealander Michael Campbell (2005), Australian Geoff Ogilvy (2006) andArgentine Ángel Cabrera (2007), are all from countries in the Southern Hemisphere. Northern Ireland's Graeme McDowell(2010) became the first European player to win the event since Tony Jacklin of England in 1970; three more Europeans won in the next four editions, making it only three American wins in the last 11 tournaments.

US Open Golf

The U.S. Open is the only one of the four major championships which retains a full 18-hole playoff the following day (Monday). If a tie exists after that fifth round, then the playoff continues as sudden-death on the 91st hole. The U.S. Open has advanced to sudden-death three times (1990, 1994, 2008), most recently when Tiger Woods defeated Rocco Mediate on the first additional playoff hole in 2008. Before sudden-death was introduced in the 1950s, additional 18-hole rounds were played (1925, 1939, and 1946) to break the tie. When the playoff was scheduled for 36 holes and ended in a tie, as in 1931, a second 36-hole playoff was required.

Willie Anderson, Bobby Jones, Ben Hogan and Jack Nicklaus hold the record for the most U.S. Open victories, with four victories each. Hale Irwin is the oldest winner of the U.S. Open at 45 years and 15 days in 1990. The youngest winner of the U.S. Open is John McDermott at 19 years, 10 months and 14 days in 1911.