The US Open at Pinehurst next week is the second Major of the season and avidly being watched by Indians for the only entry from the country, Shiv Kapur. The US Open has a brilliant history and trivia that can surprise your own learnings of this tournament. Check out the some of the interesting facts as compiled by Chandrani Datta.
> Annual open golf tournament of the United States
> Second of the four major championships in golf
> This year the US Open is at Pinehurst
>Final round is played on the third Sunday, which is Father’s Day.
>First U.S. Open was played on October 4, 1895, on a nine-hole course at the Newport Country Club in Newport
>The top 10 finishers at the U.S. Open are fully exempt from qualifying for the following year’s Open, and the top four are automatically invited to the following season’s Masters.
>Jeev Milkha Singh with four appearances and Arjun Atwal with one appearance are the other two Indians to have played at the US Open in the past. Shiv Kapur plays his maiden US Open this year at Pinehurst.
>The US Open held in 1912 at the Country Club in Buffalo has been the only one featuring a par 6.
>The purse at the first US was $399 and in 2014 it’s $8,000,000
>Julius Boros is known to be the oldest player to win the Championship in 1968, at the age of 48.
>The last Open that ended with 36 holes was won by Ken Venturi at Congressional in 1964.
>2005 was the first year when players could qualify for the US Open without playing in the US. The players could qualify by playing in tournaments in Japan or England.
>Michael Campbell was the first to qualify internationally from England in 2005.
