U.S. Open Participants

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Posted: Monday June 15, 1998 08:52 PM

FAR HILLS, New Jersey (AP) -- The field for the U.S. Open to be held June 18-21 at the Olympic Club in San Francisco:

Fully Exempt -- Billy Andrade 8; Stuart Appleby 9; Paul Azinger 5.

Thomas Bjorn 10,15; Mark Brooks 5; Olin Browne 8; Mark Calcavecchia 9,11; Stewart Cink 8,9; Darren Clarke 10; John Cook 9; Fred Couples 11,16; Ben Crenshaw 3; John Daly 4; Glen Day 11; David Duval 9, 11,16.

Lee Janzen 1,9; Per-Ulrik Johansson 10; Robert Karlsson 10; Tom Kite 1; Matt Kuchar 2; Bernard Langer 10; Justin Leonard 4, 9,11, 16; Tom Lehman 4, 8, 9, 16; Davis Love III 5, 9, 16; Scott McCarron 8, 9; Andrew Magee 9; Jeff Maggert 8, 9; Graham Marsh 7; Phil Mickelson 9, 11, 16; Colin Montgomerie 8, 10, 16.

Jack Nicklaus 14; Frank Nobilo 9; David Ogrin 8; Jose Maria Olazabal 3, 10; Mark O'Meara 3, 9, 11, 16; Jumbo Ozaki 16; Jesper Parnevik 9, 16; Corey Pavin 1; Nick Price 4, 5, 9, 16; Loren Roberts 8, 9; Costantino Rocca 10; Eduardo Romero 10.

Scott Simpson 14; Vijay Singh 9; Paul Stankowski 9; Payne Stewart 1; Curtis Strange 1; Tommy Tolles 8, 9; Bob Tway 8; Tom Watson 11,16; Lee Westwood 10; Tiger Woods 3, 9,11,16; Ian Woosnam 10.

Exemptions 
 1. U.S. Open champion, last 10 years. 
 2. 1997 U.S. Amateur champion. 
 3. Masters champion, last five years. 
 4. British Open champion, last five years. 
 5. PGA Championship champion, last five years. 
 6. 1998 Players Championship champion. 
 7. 1997 U.S. Senior Open champion. 
 8. 1997 U.S. Open, 15th place or better. 
 9. 1997 PGA Tour money list, top 30 
10. 1997 PGA European Tour Order of Merit, top 15 
11. 1998 PGA Tour money list, top 10 through May 25. 
12. Any multiple winner of PGA Tour co-sponsored events whose victories
are considered official from April 24, 1997, through the close of entries
on April 22, 1998. 
13. International players not otherwise exempt as selected by the USGA
Executive Committee. 
14. Special exemptions selected by the USGA Executive Committee. 
15. 1998 PGA European Tour Order of Merit, top two through May 25. 
16. 1997 final World Rankings, top 20

Qualifiers -- Joe Acosta Jr.; Jason Allen; Richard Ames; Tom Anderson; Michael Baird; Chip Beck; Shane Bertsch; Guy Boros; Mike Brisky; Mike Burke Jr.; Mark Carnevale; Brandell Chamblee; Christian Chernock; Grant Clough; Robert Derunte; Chris DiMarco.

Trevor Dodds; Joe Durant; a-David Eger; Jim Estes; Brad Fabel; Gene Fieger; Edward Fryatt; Rick Gehr; Brent Geiberger; Derek Gilchrist; Jason Gore; Jimmy Green; Gary Hallberg; Dudley Hart; Tim Herron; James Johnson; Jimmy Johnston; Peter Jordan; Chris Kaufman; David Kirkpatrick; Joel Kribel; Garrett Larson.

a-Paul Simson; Joey Sindelar; Tom Sipula; Jeff Sluman; Mike Small; Adrian Stills; Timothy Straub; Steve Stricker; Kevin Sutherland; Thomas Sutter; Phil Tataurangi; Vaughn Taylor; Jeff Thorsen; Chris Tidland; Rick Todd; Kirk Triplett; Howard Twitty; Omar Uresti.

Scott Verplank; Grant Waite; Rocky Walcher; D.A. Weibring; Kevin Wentworth; Wes Weston; Brett Wetterich; Garrett Willis; Mark Wilson; Willie Wood; Bruce Zabriski; Fuzzy Zoeller.

Alternates -- Raphael Alarcon; Michael Allen; Mike Barnett; Jay Delsing; a-Gene Elliott; John Engler; Rick Fehr; Robin Freeman.

Fred Funk; Jaime Gomez; David Gossett; Kirk Hanefeld; Thomas Harding; Ryan Howison; Eric Johnson; Kevin Johnson.

Jeff Julian; Sean Knapp; Cliff Kresge; Larry Mize; Perry Moss; Tony Padilla; Scott Petersen; Walt Porterfield Jr.

Brett Quigley; Chris Riley; Greg Shakespeare; Geoffrey Sisk; Todd Smith; David Toms; Tjaart Vanderwalt; Ben Walter.

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