Talk:U.S. Open (golf)

message: Ted Ray (winner 1920) is the same person as Edward Ray from Jersey (1877-1945) who won The Open Championship 1912 (runner-up 1913 and 1925). He went to USA for the first time in 1913 along with Harry Vardon but they lost to Francis Ouimet. He was the man who first suggested the Ryder Cup to Sam Ryder and he was the Ryder Cup captain in the first match in 1927. He was a long hitter and his drives often were 250 meters. He was a notorious pipe smoker and he smoked all the time when he played. At first he was the club professional at Ganton Golf Club and between 1912-1940 at Oxhey Golf Club.
I don't want to write the Edward Ray article since my english is not that good. //StefanB sv 21:26, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry, it was George Duncan that first suggested to Sam Ryder that Ryder Cup should be an annual tournament. //StefanB sv 15:35, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ted Ray 

message: Shouldn't this article be titled "United States Open" considering that is the formal title (with US open redirecting here)? -- PageantUpdater • talk | contribs | esperanza 08:19, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Go to US Open official website and see how many times, if at all, the USGA refers to the tournament as the "United States Open".  I think the only time United States Open is used is on the trophy.  I think it's fine the way it is. Crunch 12:17, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The New York Times, a liberal newspaper with a "conservative" manual of style, generally does not abbreviate country names. 207.210.134.83 (talk) 16:59, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Title - United States Open? 

message: Presently, the year "2007" in the Winners table links to the detail page for the 2007 tournament, whereas previous years link to "200X in golf".  I would recommend that 2007 be linked to "2007 in golf" in order to be consistent with the other years, but I would further recommend that an additional link or table (to be filled with further pages) be added to the detail page.  I believe 2007 is the first year to have one, though I believe future years will receive the same amount of attention as this year.  Therefore, I would personally recommend developing some way to link to the detail pages on this page - I don't at this time know what the best method would be, however.  Stewunit 01:39, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  2007 link in table and 2007 US Open detail page 

message: The Olympic Club's clubhouse and road entrance is in San Francisco.  The Lake Course is entirely mostly within San Francisco, I believe, though it's possible at some times the course straddled the boundary.  Here's a map:
--ABIJXY (talk) 20:24, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Further research suggests that various media sources give the mailing address as either San Francisco or Daly City.  The club's website says it is in San Francisco.--ABIJXY (talk) 20:53, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Olympic Club 

message: Unfortunately I can't find the source at the moment, but I remember reading that the U.S. Open was an example of a strictly gender-separated tournament, i.e. men are not allowed to compete in the women's tournament and women are not allowed to compete in the men's tournament. And apparently there has been a least one woman who has qualified for the main (men's) tournament, but was told she was not allowed to participate. The article, however, currently says that the tournament is open to both male and female golfers, although no citation is offered. Perhaps the qualifications have changed over the years, but it would be good to find out for sure. Kaldari (talk) 19:07, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Michelle Wie advanced to a second stage in qualifying for the U.S. Open in 2006, but did not advance from there.  Hard to believe she would be allowed to compete in qualifying if she was not allowed to compete in the final tournament.  Is there a reference for a woman who did qualify for the U.S. Open? Carl Lindberg (talk) 20:24, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  Sounds like Isabelle Beisiegel has apparently tried to qualify for the U.S. Open as well (she has played in the PGA Tour Q-school, and got a card on the Canadian men's tour last year).  I don't see anything which says that women are excluded. Carl Lindberg (talk) 20:40, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm going to see if I can dig up some more info. The qualification wording on the application forms is ambiguous. It doesn't explicitly say you have to be male, but it says that you have to have a "men’s Handicap Index not exceeding 1.4". The wording on the women's application also doesn't say you have to be a woman, but it says if you are transgender you have to get special clearance, thus implying that men would not be allowed. Kaldari (talk) 20:44, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I found a source, but it's extremely old, and the woman didn't actually qualify, she was barred from applying. It sounds like if they are allowing women to compete in qualifying, they must have gotten rid of the exclusion. Kaldari (talk) 20:49, 11 June 2012 (UTC)

text: Ah, I didn't see that. Strange that they mention it in the Age section! Kaldari (talk) 20:56, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Now I'm curious to find out when the qualification rule was changed, but I suppose that would take a lot of digging :P Kaldari (talk) 21:00, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  Interesting... though not surprising for that era.  I doubt they had to have a standfast rule, but could deal with occasional application.  If there was ever more than one :-) That newspaper article says it was an informal application; maybe they could have declined under grounds that Zaharias' handicap was based on the women's tees at the time, not men's, though that would probably have been easy to fix.  Unlikely there were many attempts between then until more recent decades, though she had a quote in that article, "maybe next year it will be different".  Wonder if she ever tried again ;-)  Carl Lindberg (talk) 21:33, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gender exclusivity 

message: The 1988 championship was played at oak tree national in Edmond Oklahoma not massachusetts and was won by Jeff Sluman  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.229.206.47 (talk) 22:17, 18 June 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Wrong, that was the 1988 PGA Championship. Tewapack (talk) 22:39, 18 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: 1988

message: I have twice reverted the addition of (unsourced) information relating to this years broadcast. This content seems like a clear violation of WP:NOTTVGUIDE and also has WP:RECENTISM issues. This article is about the US Open in general and all detail should be in some way relevant to the tournament as a whole, not just one (current) edition – we have a separate yearly articles for such detail. wjematherplease leave a message... 15:20, 11 September 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I have twice reverted the reverts of the troublemaker above. I specifically asked, in advance, not to undo the information I added about the network coverage, information which is in fact added every single year!!!!! But of course, he felt the need to undo a perfectly good edit, as he always does. Felt the need to undo an edit that, each year, no one ever has a problem with. The information is easily verifiable and has no need to be removed. If it were a bad addition each year, someone would have removed that information each year. But it has never been removed, until now, by someone who likes to go around removing everything and has established a reputation for doing so over the last few months. Johnsmith2116 (talk) 15:26, 11 September 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I've removed it. If it is to be included anywhere, it would be at 2020 U.S. Open (golf). -- Calidum 15:31, 11 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Addition of current broadcast information 

message: Why isn't there anything about lowest-scoring amateur status?  People keep track of it, and it's mentioned on Jordan Spieth's article etc. AnonMoos (talk) 22:24, 22 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Low amateur 

message: Unless I’m mistaken the totals for the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions appear to be off.  The Mid-Atlantic total should be 50 (20+17+8+5) and the total northeast should be 61 (50+11). 68.146.201.246 (talk) 05:51, 22 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Summary by course, state and region