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US Open Golf Tickets 2008
US Open Golf Tickets 2008
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Torrey Pines South Golf Course
(San Diego, California)
June 9th - 15th, 2008
June 9, 2008 |
Monday, Practice Round Passes
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Torrey Pines
La Jolla, California |
June 10, 2008 |
Tuesday, Practice Round Passes
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Torrey Pines
La Jolla, California |
June 11, 2008 |
Wednesday, Practice Round Passes
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Torrey Pines
La Jolla, California |
June 12, 2008 |
Thursday, First Round Passes
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Torrey Pines
La Jolla, California |
June 13, 2008 |
Friday, Second Round Passes
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Torrey Pines
La Jolla, California |
June 14, 2008 |
Saturday, Third Round Passes
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Torrey Pines
La Jolla, California |
June 15, 2008 |
Sunday, Fourth Round Passes
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Torrey Pines
La Jolla, California |
The United States Open Championship is the annual open golf tournament of the United States . It is staged by the United States Golf Association in mid-June, scheduled such that the final round is always played on the third Sunday, which is Father's Day. It is one of the four major championships in golf and is on the official schedule of both the PGA Tour and the European Tour. The U.S. Open is staged at a variety of courses, set up in such a way that scoring is very difficult with a premium placed on accurate driving. Normally, an Open course is longer than normal and will have a high cut of rough (termed "Open rough" by the American press and fans), hilly greens (such as at Pinehurst No. 2 in 2005, which was described by Johnny Miller of NBC as "like trying to hit a ball on top of a VW Beetle"), and pinched fairways. Some courses that are attempting to get into the rotation for the U.S. Open will normally be rebuilt to have these features. Rees Jones is the most notable of the "Open Doctors" who take on these projects.
US Open Championship History
The first U.S. Open Championship was played on October 4, 1895, on a nine-hole course 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.
Throughout the modern history of the competition, the title has been won almost exclusively by players from the United States . Since 1950, players from only four nations 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¡ªSouth African Retief Goosen (2004), New Zealander Michael Campbell (2005), Australian Geoff Ogilvy (2006) and Argentinian ¨¢ngel Cabrera (2007) ¡ªare all from countries in the Southern Hemisphere. No player from Europe has won since Tony Jacklin of England in 1970.
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