|
3 -- Consecutive victories by Willie Anderson at the U.S. Open (1903-05). Anderson is one for four golfers ever to win the Open four times. |
Tiger Woods has earned an average of $78.12 per stroke in his four U.S. Open starts.
Vincent Laforet/Allsport
|
|
4 -- Wire-to-wire winners, with no ties, in tournament history. Tony Jacklin (1970) was the last to accomplish the feat, which was also achieved by Walter Hagen (1914), James Barnes (1921) and Ben Hogan (1953).
|
|
5 -- Largest lead by a non-winner heading into the final round. Mike Brady blew his big Open lead by shooting a final-round 80 in 1919. He lost in a playoff to Hagen. |
|
7 -- Best finish by David Duval at the Open. Duval, who has played in six Opens, tied for seventh last year. |
|
8 -- Times Bobby Jones finished in either first or second place -- all in a nine-year span. Jones won the tournament four times (1923, 1926, 1929 and 1930) and finished second four times (1922, 1924, 1925 and 1928). Jones finished tied for 11th in 1927. |
|
11 -- Entrants in the first U.S. Open, the smallest field in tournament history, which was held in Newport, R.I., in 1895. Horace Rawlings shot a final-round 82 to win $150. |
|
16 -- Champions that have missed the cut the following year. Ernie Els (1995) was the last to reach this dubious distinction. |
|
19 -- Highest one-hole score. In 1938, Ray Ainsely took nearly 30 minutes to complete the 16th hole at Cherry Hills, hacking at his submerged ball before one-putting for 19. He shot 96 for the round and missed the cut.
|
|
21 -- Foreign-born Open winners, the last being South Africa's Els (1997). |
|
27 -- Holes-in-one, the last by Gary Hallberg in 1995.Roberts. |
|
31 -- Times the U.S. Open has gone to a playoff in 96 tournaments. Els won in 1994 in a 20-hole playoff, nipping Loren Roberts. |
|
35 -- Sub-par rounds in Jack Nicklaus' Open career. Nicklaus, who will compete in his 43rd straight Open this week, has won the event four times (1962, 1967, 1972, 1980). |
|
37 -- Times the leader after 54 holes went on to win the tournament. Tom Lehman, however, has failed to do that in three of the last four years.
|
|
45 -- Age of the oldest Open champion. Hale Irwin won in 1990 at the age of 45 years and 15 days. |
|
63 -- Lowest fourth-round score. Johnny Miller shot the 8-under-par 63 to beat John Schlee by one stroke in 1973.
|
|
72.62 -- Tiger Woods' average score in his 13 rounds at the U.S. Open, only two of which have been under 70. Woods has never finished in the top 10, finishing a career-best 18th last year. |
|
86 -- Years since a player has won the Open on his first try. In 1913, Francis Ouimet won the tournament as an amateur by shooting 72 in an 18-hole playoff. Five players have won the Open in their first try.
|
|
116 -- Highest final-round score, by O. McCammon in 1899. McCammon finished 107 strokes behind the winner, Willie Smith, after shooting rounds of 94, 102, 110 and 116. |
|
157 -- Highest single-round score, by J.D. Tucker in 1898. Tucker improved 57 strokes in the second round, shooting 100 before withdrawing from the tournament.
|
|
272 -- Lee Janzen's winning total in the 1993 Open, tied for the lowest 72-hole score in tournament history. Nicklaus also shot 272 in his 1980 Open win.
|
|
432 -- Over-par rounds in the 1996 Open at Oakland Hills in Bloomfield Hills, Mich. Steve Jones shot a 2-under-par 278 en route to his first Open triumph. |
|
7,213 -- Length, in yards, of the longest course -- Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Md. (1997).
|
|
8,877 -- Strokes in the U.S. Open career of two-time winner Gene Sarazen. Only Nicklaus (11,305) has taken more strokes.
|
|
120,775.65 -- Dollars Arnold Palmer has earned in 32 U.S. Open starts, including his 1960 victory.
|
|
153,727.55 -- Dollars Frank Nobilo has earned in five U.S. Open starts, the best of which is a tie for ninth. |
