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Tournament information | |
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Dates | June 14–17, 2012 |
Location | San Francisco, California |
Course(s) | Olympic Club, Lake Course |
Organized by | USGA |
Tour(s) |
PGA Tour European Tour Japan Golf Tour |
Statistics | |
Par | 70 |
Length | 7,170 yards (6,556 m) [1] |
Field | 156 players, 72 after cut |
Cut | 148 (+8) [2] |
Prize fund |
$8,000,000 €6,433,972 |
Winner's share | $1,440,000 €1,158,115 [3] |
Champion | |
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281 (+1) | |
The 2012 United States Open Championship was the 112th U.S. Open, played June 14–17 at the Olympic Club in San Francisco, California. Webb Simpson won his first major title, one stroke ahead of runners-up Graeme McDowell and Michael Thompson. [4] [5]
This was the fifth U.S. Open at the Olympic Club, all played at the Lake Course. In 1955, unheralded Jack Fleck defeated Ben Hogan in an 18-hole playoff. In 1966, Billy Casper staged one of the greatest comebacks in U.S. Open history, erasing a seven-stroke deficit on the final nine holes to tie Arnold Palmer, then prevailed in an 18-hole playoff. In 1987, Scott Simpson won by a stroke over 8-time major winner Tom Watson. In 1998, Lee Janzen won his second U.S. Open, one stroke ahead of Payne Stewart.
Olympic Club - Lake Course [1] [6] [7]
Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Out | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | In | Total |
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Yards | 520 | 428 | 247 | 438 | 498 | 489 | 288 | 200 | 449 | 3,557 | 424 | 430 | 451 | 199 | 419 | 154 | 670 | 522 | 344 | 3,613 | 7,170 |
Par | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 34 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 36 | 70 |
Lengths of the course for previous major championships:
One unique aspect of the course was that players began the first and second rounds on the 1st and 9th tees, rather than the 1st and 10th tees, as is typical. [8] This was due to the 8th green and 9th tee being located far closer to the clubhouse than the 10th tee.
For 2012, the USGA changed the rule governing which players would make the cut after 36 holes. Now, only the top 60 players, plus those tied, would make the cut, instead of also including those players within ten strokes of the leader. [9]
About half the field each year consists of players who are fully exempt from qualifying for the U.S. Open. The players who have qualified for the 2012 U.S. Open are listed below. Each player is classified according to the first category in which he qualified, but other categories are shown in parentheses. [10]
The qualification categories changed substantially in 2012. Seven categories (9 and 11 to 16, from 2011) were eliminated. These categories exempted top finishers on the money lists of various tours and multiple PGA Tour winners. Three categories were added (3, 4, and 9 below), for the winners of The Amateur Championship, the Mark H. McCormack Medal, and the BMW PGA Championship. Two categories were expanded (13 and 14 below), to include the top 60 instead of the top 50 in the Official World Golf Ranking.
1. Last 10 U.S. Open Champions
2. Top two finishers in the 2011 U.S. Amateur
3. Winner of the 2011 British Amateur
4. Winner of the 2011 Mark H. McCormack Medal
5. Last five Masters Champions
6. Last five British Open Champions
7. Last five PGA Champions
8. Last three Players Champions
9. Winner of the 2012 BMW PGA Championship
10. The U.S. Senior Open Champion
11. Top 10 finishers and ties in the 2011 U.S. Open
12. All players qualifying for the 2011 edition of The Tour Championship
13. Top 60 on the Official World Golf Ranking list as of May 21, 2012 [15]
14. Top 60 on the Official World Golf Ranking list as of June 11, 2012 [18]
15. Special exemptions selected by the USGA
Source: [19]
Alternates who gained entry:
(a) denotes amateur
(L) denotes player advanced through local qualifying
Thursday, June 14, 2012
Place | Player | Score | To par |
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1 |
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66 | −4 |
T2 |
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69 | −1 |
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T7 |
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70 | E |
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Source: [20]
Friday, June 15, 2012
Place | Player | Score | To par |
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T1 |
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70-69=139 | −1 |
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69-70=139 | ||
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69-70=139 | ||
T4 |
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72-69=141 | +1 |
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69-72=141 | ||
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71-70=141 | ||
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66-75=141 | ||
8 |
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72-70=142 | +2 |
T9 |
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73-70=143 | +3 |
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72-71=143 | ||
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70-73=143 | ||
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72-71=143 | ||
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70-73=143 | ||
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72-71=143 |
Source: [21]
Amateurs: Hossler (+3), Spieth (+8), Cantlay (+8), Sanchez (+9), Wilson (+14), Koepka (+14), Zhang (+17), Sherwood (+18)
Saturday, June 16, 2012
Place | Player | Score | To par |
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T1 |
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70-69-70=209 | −1 |
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69-72-68=209 | ||
3 |
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72-71-68=211 | +1 |
T4 |
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72-70-70=212 | +2 |
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72-69-71=212 | ||
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75-69-68=212 | ||
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73-72-67=212 | ||
T8 |
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74-71-68=213 | +3 |
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72-71-70=213 | ||
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70-73-70=213 | ||
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71-70-72=213 | ||
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Source: [22]
Sunday, June 17, 2012
Champion |
Silver Cup winner (leading amateur) |
(a) = amateur |
(c) = past champion |
Place | Player | Score | To par | Money ( $) |
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1 |
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72-73-68-68=281 | +1 | 1,440,000 |
T2 |
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69-72-68-73=282 | +2 | 695,916 |
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66-75-74-67=282 | |||
T4 |
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72-71-70-70=283 | +3 | 276,841 |
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70-69-70-74=283 | |||
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74-70-71-68=283 | |||
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71-70-72-70=283 | |||
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69-70-76-68=283 | |||
9 |
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75-69-68-72=284 | +4 | 200,280 |
T10 |
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74-71-68-72=285 | +5 | 163,594 |
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75-70-69-71=285 | |||
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72-73-68-72=285 | |||
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Leaderboard below the top 10 | |||||
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Place | Player | Score | To par | Money ($) | |
T15 |
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73-70-74-69=286 | +6 | 118,969 | |
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74-71-69-72=286 | ||||
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76-70-70-70=286 | ||||
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76-68-73-69=286 | ||||
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72-71-72-71=286 | ||||
T21 |
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72-70-70-75=287 | +7 | 86,348 | |
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72-71-73-71=287 | ||||
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69-75-71-72=287 | ||||
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74-74-69-70=287 | 0 | |||
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69-75-73-70=287 | 86,348 | |||
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69-70-75-73=287 | ||||
T27 |
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72-69-71-76=288 | +8 | 68,943 | |
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70-73-71-74=288 | ||||
T29 |
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72-74-73-70=289 | +9 | 53,168 | |
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70-73-70-76=289 | 0 | |||
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70-75-72-72=289 | 53,168 | |||
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76-70-70-73=289 | ||||
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73-74-73-69=289 | ||||
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71-76-72-70=289 | ||||
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74-71-71-73=289 | ||||
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70-74-75-70=289 | ||||
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74-70-71-74=289 | ||||
T38 |
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73-71-71-75=290 | +10 | 44,144 | |
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72-71-73-74=290 | ||||
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73-70-74-73=290 | ||||
T41 |
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76-72-71-72=291 | +11 | 0 | |
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78-69-70-74=291 | 38,816 | |||
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72-76-71-72=291 | ||||
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77-70-73-71=291 | ||||
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70-75-73-73=291 | ||||
T46 |
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72-76-69-75=292 | +12 | 31,979 | |
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74-73-71-74=292 | ||||
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77-67-71-77=292 | ||||
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73-75-69-75=292 | ||||
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76-69-73-74=292 | ||||
T51 |
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74-74-74-71=293 | +13 | 24,912 | |
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71-74-73-75=293 | ||||
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75-71-73-74=293 | ||||
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75-73-74-71=293 | ||||
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74-74-72-73=293 | ||||
T56 |
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71-73-77-73=294 | +14 | 21,995 | |
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71-75-71-77=294 | ||||
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73-75-71-75=294 | ||||
T59 |
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74-74-73-74=295 | +15 | 19,955 | |
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75-71-76-73=295 | ||||
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70-74-77-74=295 | ||||
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75-71-73-76=295 | ||||
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76-72-72-75=295 | ||||
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78-70-76-71=295 | ||||
T65 |
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76-71-71-78=296 | +16 | 18,593 | |
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73-72-74-77=296 | ||||
67 |
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74-72-74-77=297 | +17 | 18,113 | |
T68 |
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74-73-79-72=298 | +18 | 17,633 | |
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73-73-75-77=298 | ||||
70 |
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74-73-74-78=299 | +19 | 17,153 | |
71 |
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70-75-78-78=301 | +21 | 16,833 | |
72 |
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73-75-76-79=303 | +23 | 16,512 | |
CUT |
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78-71=149 | +9 | ||
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76-73=149 | ||||
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77-73=150 | +10 | |||
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77-74=151 | +11 | |||
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77-75=152 | +12 | |||
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75-79=154 | +14 | |||
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77-78=155 | +15 | |||
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80-76=156 | +16 | |||
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78-79=157 | +17 | |||
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81-77=158 | +18 | |||
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82-77=159 | +19 | |||
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78-81=159 | ||||
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85-75=160 | +20 | |||
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84-78=162 | +22 | |||
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80-82=162 | ||||
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80-84=164 | +24 | |||
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86-82=168 | +28 |
Final round
Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par
Eagle | Birdie | Bogey | Double bogey |
Source: [25]