History of The Game Of Golf Including it's origins 'Francis Ouimet and the 1913 U.S. Open:' 'The 1913 U.S. Open Championship was played at The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts, one of the earliest American golf courses. Harry Vardon had come back to the U.S. again and entered the Open, expected by many to win. His primary competition was expected to come from friend and fellow Brit Ted Ray. No one saw Francis Ouimet coming.' 'Ouimet was a 20-year-old amateur and former caddy from Brookline when he entered the U.S. Open in 1913. Tied with the two British stars after the first three rounds of the tournament, Ouimet managed two birdies in his final six holes to finish tied for the lead at the end of the four rounds. A playoff was required, and Ouimet, much to the shock and delight of the crowd, ended the playoff round with a one-over-par 72, beating out Vardon and Ray. Ouimet's victory became national news, catapulting golf into even greater popularity. Ouimet would go on to win two Amateur Championships and a French Amateur Championship.

He would also appear on the American team in the newly-created Walker Cup in 1922, a tournament between American and British teams played every other year. Ouimet would play on every Walker Cup team from 1922 to 1949, captaining the squad between 1936 and 1949. In 1951, he was named captain of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews in Scotland, the first non-British person awarded that high honor.' 'The Amateur Game:' 'Both in Britain and the U.S., amateur golf was as highly regarded and popular in the 1800s and into the 1900s as professional golf. The Amateur Championships of Britain and America were extremely well attended and well thought-of events. In Britain, early amateur domination came in the form of John Ball, who won the British Amateur Championship eight times, three more than any other player has ever won. Interestingly, Ball never won twice in a row - all his victories came at least a year apart from each other. Ball also became the first to win both an Amateur and Open Championship, one of only three in history who have done so.

Harold Hilton, another top amateur of the time, was the first to win both championships, winning two Opens and four Amateurs. He also became the first British player to win both the British and U.S. Amateur Championships.' 'In the U.S., the first amateur star was Walter Travis. The Australian who had moved to the U.S. as a child first won the U.S. Amateur Championship in 1900 and would collect two more titles. Only three other players have ever won three or more U.S. Amateur Championships. He also became the first American player to win the British Amateur Open, capturing the 1904 title. Following Travis's success was Jerome Travers, who between 1907 and 1913 won four titles. Travers would also become one of the first Amateur winners to also win a U.S. Open.' 'The greatest amateur of the first half of the 1900s, however (and one of the greatest of all-time) was Bobby Jones. Of the seven U.S. Amateur Championships between 1924 and 1930, Jones won five of them; those five victories are also the most all-time in Amateur Championship history.

His greatest feat, another unmatched in history, came in 1930. In that single year, Bobby Jones won the U.S. Open, the British Open, the U.S. Amateur Championship and the British Amateur Championship. That accomplishment was dubbed the "Grand Slam." No other player has ever completed a single-season Grand Slam, though five others have completed a career Grand Slam, winning all four majors in their career.' 'The Professional Game:' 'In 1916, as professional golf gained more ground in the U.S., players wanted an organizational body to govern the game: U.S. amateurs had the USGA and British players had the R&A (taking its name from the Royal and Ancient Club), so they wanted one of their own. That January , the Professional Golfer's Association of America was born. Seven months later, they established the first PGA Championship, played at a course in Bronxville, New York, with $2,500 awarded to the winner (equal to $50,000 today). ' 'The earliest PGA star was undoubtedly Walter Hagen. While Bobby Jones dominated the amateur game in America, Hagen controlled the pro game.

In his career, Hagen won 11 professional titles: the U.S. Open twice, the British Open four times and the PGA Championship five times. His five PGA Championship titles are the most all-time, along with Jack Nicklaus' five wins. Four of those victories came in a row, from 1924-27. No other golfer has ever won more than two in a row. Over his career, Hagen earned about $1 million in prize money, by far the most at the time (and equal to about $12.5 million today).' 'The Game Changes:' 'Bobby Jones' retirement in 1930 marked the beginning of a new era in golf. Steel-shafted golf clubs became the standard, and with the improved equipment, scores began lowering: shooting par generally wasn't good enough anymore. Crossover between the amateur and pro games began to end as well. After Jones' 1930 Open victory, only one other player (Johnny Goodman in 1933) won the U.S. Open as an amateur.

Amateur success in pro tournaments (or lack thereof) was attributed to the much higher amounts of money coming into the game after 1930; as soon as an amateur player could compete on the pro level, they made the jump to professional. ' 'The PGA Tour, which had been established in 1916 along with the PGA, began recognizing the money winner of each year's tour in 1934. That first season, Paul Runyan was the highest money winner, tallying seven wins and just over $6700 (equal to $107,000 today). That same season, the pro tour earned a profit of $135,000 ($2.16 million today). By 1949, under the leadership of Boston promoter Fred Corcoran, the tour earned a profit of $600 thousand, and raised that total to over $2 million in the '60s (today, those totals are equal to $5.4 million and $14.5 million, respectively).' 'The 1930s also saw the creation of a new tournament, the Masters (originally named the Augusta National Invitation Tournament).

The first tourney was held in 1934, with Horton Smith its winner, and quickly became one of the premier golf events on the PGA Tour schedule. The creation of the Masters Tournament also ushered in the era of the modern majors. Originally, the majors (the four major golf tournaments of the year) were the British and U.S. Opens and Amateur Championships. With the rise of professional golf, the majors eventually became the U.S. and British Opens, the PGA Championship and the Masters.' 'The 1930s in golf, however, failed to produce a single dominant figure. While there were certainly star players, no one controlled the game like the figures before. From 1934 to 1939, no player won the money leader title more than once. It wasn't until 1940 and Ben Hogan that golf once again had a titan. Hogan, a Texan, won the money title five times in his career. He tallied four U.S. Open titles, won the Masters twice, the PGA Championship twice and won a single British Open, becoming only the second player (after Gene Sarazen) to win the career Grand Slam in the Masters era.

He also won the Masters, U.S. Open and British Open in the same year, 1953, considered one of the greatest achievements in golf history.' 'Following World War II, another golfer hit the scene, challenging Hogan's dominance: Byron Nelson. Nelson became the first golfer on the PGA Tour to win more than 10 events in a single year, winning an astonishing 18 events in 1945 (an unmatched feat in history). He also became the first player to top $50,000 in winnings in a single year, earning over $63,000 in '45 (worth $751 thousand today). ' 'One golfer of the era not remembered for singular dominance by rather for consistency was Sam Snead. Playing across four decades on the PGA Tour, Snead won three money titles, three PGA Championships, three Masters and a British Open, never able to capture a U.S. Open titles (though he was a runner-up five times, including losing a playoff in 1947). Snead's claim to fame, however, is his PGA Tour win total.

Between his first victory on the Tour in 1936 and his last in 1965, Sam Snead won 82 Tour events, the most all-time. ' 'Women's Golf:' 'Evidence from the history of golf says that women have been involved and interested in the game almost since its inception. The Royal and Ancient Club was founded in 1754 - within 60 years, women were on record as being active on the course. Within another sixty years, they had formed a club as well, the Ladies Golf Club of St. Andrews in 1867. In 1893, the Ladies Golf Union was formed, the governing body for women's golf in the U.K. and Ireland. In the U.S., women came to golf just about as early as men; just one year after John Reid set up the first golf course, he and his wife played another couple in mixed doubles, the first recorded mixed doubles match in the U.S. ' 'As in men's golf, early domination of the sport belonged to Great Britain. However, by about the 1920s, American women had developed a greater affinity for the game.

In 1932, The USGA and the Ladies Golf Union established the Curtis Cup Match, a competition between American and British teams held every two years. The first was held in England, with the Americans winning. Much like its male counterpart, the Walker Cup, early domination in the Curtis Cup belonged to the U.S.' 'Babe:' 'Though women's golf has never achieved the same level of popularity as men's golf, it certainly has had its stars. Its first (and perhaps biggest) was Mildred Didrikson Zaharias, better known as Babe. Zaharias, widely considered perhaps the greatest female athlete of all time, did not excel solely in golf. As an 18-year-old, she entered a national track and field event in Illinois and won the team title - as the only member of her team. She entered eight of the 10 events, winning six of them (and placing 2nd and 4th in the other two) and set three world records. She went on to win two gold medals at the 1932 Olympics, and was disqualified from winning a third for diving over the bar in the high jump (something that had never been done before, and was later legalized).

With her popularity skyrocketing, she went on a tour of the country, first as a vaudeville performer, later playing baseball, football, basketball, trying out skiing, boxing and fly-casting.' 'Though she started playing golf shortly after the Olympics, she decided to get serious about the game a few years later. It was during this period that she was paired with a professional wrestler at a tournament in 1938, George Zaharias. The two made an immediate connection and were married shortly afterward. However, as much as Babe's private life was enjoying success, her professional life was not - women's pro golf was not yet established, and the only two major tournaments were for amateurs (the National Women's Amateur Championship and the British Ladies' Championship). As a result, Zaharias applied for amateur status and, in 1944, the USGA approved it. As soon as World War II ended and those tournaments got started up again, Zaharias won them, winning the Women's Amateur Championship once, in '46 and the British Ladies' Championship once, in '47.

By this time, women's pro golf was finally starting to come together.' 'There have been a number of major championships in women's golf throughout the years. The earliest is the Women's Western Open, which began play in 1930. The second was the Titleholder's Championship in 1937, the third the U.S. Women's Open in 1946. All three of these were retroactively named majors by the LPGA. The Ladies Professional Golfer's Association was formed in 1950 by a group of 13 golfers, one of whom was Babe Zaharias. Of the three majors formed during her career, Zaharias won all three, winning the Western Open four times, the Titleholders three times and the U.S. Open three times.' 'Sadly, she was stricken with cancer and died in 1956 at 42. ' 'Arnie's Army Storms Golf:' 'The 1950s were another period without a clear dominating figure in men's golf.

In the decade, no player (other than Sam Snead) captured the events winner title (awarded to the player who won the most events in the season) and no one won the money leader title more than once. Players like Hogan and Snead were nearing the end of their careers, no longer ruling the scene. Nelson had retired in the '40s. Golf's popularity was still on the rise; it was now entering television for the first time, as major tournaments appeared on TV on Saturdays and Sundays. The sport, however, needed a national figure, and at the end of the decade, one finally appeared.' 'Arnold Palmer, born in Pennsylvania in 1929, turned pro in 1954 after winning the U.S. Amateur Championship, and within three years captured the events winner title. A year later, in 1958, he won the money title. He would win three money titles in his career, as well as a U.S. Open title, a British Open title and four Masters titles, at the time the most in history.

Palmer became the game's first superstar, attracting a horde of followers at each tournament nicknamed "Arnie's Army." He totaled 62 PGA Tour wins in his career, ranking 5th all-time.' 'The Golden Bear and the Black Knight:' 'Palmer's fame was helped along by the presence of two significant rivals, Gary Player and Jack Nicklaus. Player was a South African who turned professional in 1953. He joined the PGA Tour in '57. Within two years, he already began to win. His first major championship victory came in 1959 at the Open Championship, the first of three British Open titles he would win. He won the PGA Championship twice and the Masters three times. He finally completed the career Grand Slam in 1965 when he won the U.S. Open (his only victory there). He is one of only eight golfers to have won the Masters three times or more. His last major victory came in 1978, at the Masters, when he stormed back from a 7-hole deficit after three rounds to win by a stroke. He was nicknamed "the Black Knight" because he famously wore all black while playing.

Player, though considered a rival of Palmer, was considered more a rival of his contemporary, Jack Nicklaus.' 'Nicklaus, nicknamed "the Golden Bear" because of his build and hair color, would retire from professional golf considered by many to be the greatest golfer of all time. During his career, he would eclipse all golfers that came before him by winning a total of 18 majors, a record that still stands today. His 73 PGA Tour wins rank him second on the all-time list. He turned pro in 1961, winning his first major (the U.S. Open) within a year. He won each major at least three times, becoming history's first three-time career Grand Slam holder. He won the U.S. Open four times, the British Open three times and the PGA Championship five times. His greatest success, however, came at the Masters. The six-time winner of the tournament (by far a tournament record) last won a major title at Augusta in 1986. The win came as a shock to the golf world, as Nicklaus had last won a major six years previous.

However, the Golden Bear had enough magic left to capture the Green Jacket, an honorarium bestowed on each winner of the Masters, one last time.' 'Changing and Adding:' 'In 1968, the PGA Tour, which had, since its inception in 1916 been governed by the PGA of America, broke off, becoming its own organization. Initially, tournament players had formed their own group, the Association of Professional Golfers. They quickly abandoned this, forming the PGA Tournament Players Division, later simply named the PGA Tour. All the records of the PGA Tour prior to the split were carried over. In '72, Europe finally had its own official tour, the PGA European Tour, which comprised 15 different countries.

Its all time leader in wins is Spaniard Seve Ballesteros (who also had success on the PGA Tour).' 'In 1974, a local board of directors in Pinehurst, North Carolina established the World Golf Hall of Fame, inaugurating their first class that year, comprised of Patty Berg, Walter Hagen, Ben Hogan, Bobby Jones, Byron Nelson, Jack Nicklaus, Francis Ouimet, Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Gene Sarazen, Sam Snead, Harry Vardon and Babe Zaharias. While the Hall of Fame was initially a local venture, it eventually came under the purview of the PGA, moving to St. Augustine, Florida in 1998 and continuing as world golf's official Hall of Fame.' 'That same year, 1974, a new tournament was established, one that would go on to be considered alongside the four majors. The Tournament Players Championship, later renamed simply The Players Championship, is played in Florida every year, dubbed by many "the Fifth Major" though it has never officially received that distinction.

The Players Championship awards the highest prize money of any golf tournament; its first winner, Jack Nicklaus, received $50,000 out of a total purse of $250,000 ($217,000 and $1.09 million today). Nicklaus also holds the distinction of winning the tourney three times, the most in history.' 'The World's Number One:' 'With the official addition of the European Tour, and its subsequent legitimization among the world's top golfers, more and more golfers began splitting their time between the European and PGA Tours. Many golfers (non-Americans) would primarily play on the European Tour, then play in the major tournaments in the U.S. This led to a problem for the Royal and Ancient Club: their system of invitation to the British Open was now leaving out many top golfers because they split time between the tours. This led to the development of the World Golf Rankings. This system, endorsed by the four majors and the six top international golf tours, ranks the world's golfers on a points system, derived from their finishes in tournaments.

The rankings were first released prior to the 1986 Masters Tournament - the top six were Bernhard Langer, Seve Ballesteros, Sandy Lyle, Tom Watson, Mark O'Meara and Greg Norman. Interestingly, the top three were all European players - none of them ever finished as the money or wins leader on the PGA Tour. However, that first year, Greg Norman ended the year ranked number one, which he would do six more times in his career, a record when he retired. Only one other golfer would tally more year-end number ones than Norman�but we'll get to him later.' 'Between 1986 and 1997, Norman's last year at number one, there were only five players who finished the year at number one: Norman, Ballesteros, Ian Woosnam, Nick Price and Nick Faldo. Of those five, only Faldo achieved that feat more than once. Norman dominated the world rankings, yet only won the money title on the PGA Tour three times in his career and only ever won titles in one major championship, winning the British Open twice.

Other golfers of the era were big winners in the majors: Tom Watson won five British Opens, a U.S. Open, and two Masters, failing to capture the career Grand Slam by never winning the PGA Championship. Faldo won two Masters and three British Opens while Ballesteros accomplished the same feat, and Curtis Strange became the first player since Ben Hogan in the 1950's to win back-to-back U.S. Opens, winning in '88 and '89 (and no player has done so since). But on the horizon as the calendar turned to the late '90s was a player that would capture golf's attention and awards like almost no one else before.' 'Tiger:' 'Eldrick Woods was born in 1975 in California, and his father Earl had him playing golf from an incredibly early age - even appearing on a TV talk show to showcase his talents at the age of two. After attending Stanford University for two years and winning the U.S. Amateur Championship three times (including as the youngest ever, a record which stood until 2008), he turned pro in 1996.

The man nicknamed "Tiger" immediately became a sensation, winning the 1997 Masters with a still-record low of -18. The son of an African-American man and a Thai woman, he also became the first non-white player ever to win at Augusta. He wouldn't stop there - Woods, at present, has captured a total of 14 major victories, second all-time to Nicklaus. With four Masters titles, three U.S. Open titles, three British Open titles and four PGA Championship titles, he is also the only person besides Nicklaus to have completed three career Grand Slams. In 2000-01, he also became the only person in history to hold all four majors titles simultaneously, winning the 2000 U.S. and British Opens and PGA Championship, followed by the 2001 Masters title. However, since he did not win them in the same year, it did not count as a single season Grand Slam. Still, he managed to best Bobby Jones in 2008 when he won his 14th major, eclipsing Jones' 13.

He also has 71 PGA Tour wins, 3rd all time, only two behind Nicklaus and 11 behind Snead. At only 34, many believe he will someday beat Snead's record. Tiger also holds the record for most number one year-end rankings (with 11 as of 2009) and the record for most weeks at number one (with 615 straight weeks - 284 more than Greg Norman, who is second). Woods has also won more money than any other golfer in history, with his prize money as of 2010 totaling over $93 million.' 'Golf Today:' 'Tiger still dominates the fans' attention in golf, though due to injury and personal problems he has failed to win a major since 2008. TV ratings when Tiger is playing for a championship as opposed to when Tiger isn't are considerably higher.

Still, the sport of golf in general is strong, attracting strong TV revenues and awarding higher and higher purses every year - for example, the Players Championship, the highest purse in golf, awarded the equivalent of $217,000 to the winner out of $1.09 million in its first year. The 2010 Players Championship gave its winner $1.71 million out of a $9.5 million purse. Golf is going strong. What remains to be seen is what will happen when Tiger finally retires, and whether a new figure can arise to capture the world's attention in the sport.' U.S. Senior Open Championship Facts Twitter: @usopengolf ; Facebook.com/USOPEN ; Instagram: @USGA ; #USSeniorOpen PAR AND YARDAGE Del Paso Country Club will be set up at 6,994 yards and will play to a par of 36-34–70.

DEL PASO COUNTRY CLUB HOLE BY HOLE Hole 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Total Par 5 3 4 5 3 4 4 4 4 36 Yards 544 178 490 580 228 395 440 450 318 3,623 Hole 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Total Par 4 4 3 4 3 5 4 3 4 34 Yards 317 393 165 487 215 636 473 225 460 3,371 ARCHITECT Del Paso County Club was designed by Scotsman John L. Black. It was redesigned and renovated by architect Kyle Phillips in 2006.

The club was founded in 1916 on property that was part of the original Rancho Del Paso, a historic 44,000-acre area used by 19th-century settlers as a pathway through the Sierra Nevada Mountains. COURSE RATING Based on the course setup for the championship, the USGA Course Rating is 74.9. Its Slope Rating is 147. WHO CAN ENTER The championship is open to any professional and amateur golfer who is 50 years of age as of June 22. An amateur is eligible with a Handicap Index® not exceeding 3.4. The deadline for entries is May 6. ENTRIES The USGA accepted 2,445 entries for the 2015 U.S. Senior Open. The record number of entries is 3,101 in 2002. SECTIONAL QUALIFYING Sectional qualifying, played over 18 holes, was conducted at 34 sites around the country between May 11 and June 4. The sectional qualifying sites are located in 26 states, including five in California and three in Florida.

CHAMPIONSHIP FIELD The starting field of 156 golfers will be cut after 36 holes to the low 60 scorers and ties. SCHEDULE OF PLAY Eighteen holes of stroke play are scheduled each day from Thursday, June 25, through Sunday, June 28. In the case of a tie after 72 holes, a three-hole aggregate playoff will commence immediately after the conclusion of the fourth round on June 28. 2014 CHAMPION Colin Montgomerie defeated Gene Sauers in a three-hole aggregate playoff to win the 2014 U.S. Senior Open Championship at Oak Tree National, in Edmond, Okla. Montgomerie and Sauers advanced to the playoff with 72-hole scores of 5-under 279. Montgomerie held a one-shot lead through two holes and sank a 16-foot par putt to claim his first USGA championship. Montgomerie, who opened with a first-round 65, led at the end of the first and second rounds but trailed Sauers by four strokes entering Sunday’s action.

He rallied with a final-round 69, while Sauers narrowly missed a birdie putt on the 72nd hole that led to the first U.S. Senior Open playoff since 2002. Sauers, who tied for 35th the previous year in his first U.S. Senior Open, had shot three consecutive rounds in the 60s to build his lead. Montgomerie, who won his first professional playoff in nine attempts, which included a loss to Ernie Els in the 1994 U.S. Open at Oakmont (Pa.) Country Club, became the fifth player to win both the U.S. Senior Open and Senior PGA Championship in the same year. PURSE The 2014 purse was $3.35 million; the winner earned $630,000. TELEVISION SCHEDULE The U.S. Senior Open will receive at least 20 hours of live network coverage. Fox will air at least 10 hours of coverage throughout the championship. Fox Sports 1 will air at least 10 hours over the first two days of play.

Date Network Broadcast Hours (EDT) June 23 Fox Sports 1 Preview, 3:30 p.m.-4 p.m. June 24 Fox Sports 1 Preview, 7 p.m.-8 p.m. June 25 Fox Sports 1 2 p.m.-7 p.m. June 26 Fox Sports 1 2 p.m.-7 p.m. June 27 Fox 2 p.m.-7 p.m. June 28 Fox 2 p.m.-7 p.m. TICKETS Tickets for the 2015 U.S. Senior Open Championship are available for purchase at 2015ussenioropen.com. Weekly tickets are $125 (good Thursday-Sunday with parking). Trophy Club tickets are $250. HISTORY This is the 36th U.S. Senior Open Championship. The first U.S. Senior Open, played in 1980, was conducted for golfers 55 and older. The next year, the USGA lowered the minimum age to 50. Miller Barber captured the first of his three U.S.

Senior Open titles in 1982 – he also won in 1984 and 1985. The U.S. Senior Open has four two-time winners: Gary Player (1987, 1988), Jack Nicklaus (1991, 1993), Hale Irwin (1998, 2000), and Allen Doyle (2005, 2006). Doyle became the championship’s oldest winner in 2006 at the age of 58 years, 13 days. The youngest champion is Dale Douglass, who won in 1986 at the age of 50 years, 3 months, 24 days. USGA CHAMPIONSHIPS AT DEL PASO COUNTRY CLUB This is the first U.S. Senior Open Championship and the fifth USGA championship to be conducted at Del Paso Country Club. In the 1982 U.S. Women’s Open, Janet Alex posted a 72-hole score of 5-under 283 to win by six strokes and record her first professional victory.

Four players tied for second at 1-over 289: eight-time USGA champion JoAnne Gunderson Carner, 1975 U.S. Women’s Open champion Sandra Haynie and U.S. Women’s Amateur champions Donna White and Beth Daniel. Carner won the first of her five U.S. Women’s Amateur titles at Del Paso in 1957. She defeated Ann Casey Johnstone, 8 and 6, in the final. Carner, the 1971 and 1976 U.S. Women’s Open winner, holds the record for women with eight USGA championships and is tied for third among all competitors behind Robert T. Jones Jr. and Tiger Woods, who have nine each. USGA CHAMPIONSHIPS AT DEL PASO COUNTRY CLUB 1957 U.S. Women’s Amateur: JoAnne Gunderson Carner def. Ann Casey Johnstone, 8 and 6 1964 U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur: Loma Smith won by one stroke over Mrs. William Kirkland 1976 U.S. Women’s Amateur: Donna Horton def.

Marianne Bretton, 2 and 1 1982 U.S. Women’s Open: Janet Alex won by six strokes over Sandra Haynie, Donna White, JoAnne Gunderson Carner and Beth Daniel USGA CHAMPIONSHIPS IN CALIFORNIA This will be the 75th USGA championship played in California and the second U.S. Senior Open contested in the state. Hale Irwin edged Vicente Fernandez by one stroke to win the 1998 U.S. Senior Open at Riviera Country Club, in Pacific Palisades. He became the seventh player to win the U.S. Open and U.S. Senior Open. USGA OPENS IN CALIFORNIA 1948 U.S. Open: Riviera Country Club, Pacific Palisades (Ben Hogan) 1955 U.S. Open: The Olympic Club (Lake Course), San Francisco (Jack Fleck) 1964 U.S. Women’s Open: San Diego Country Club (Mickey Wright) 1966 U.S. Open: The Olympic Club (Lake Course), San Francisco (Billy Casper) 1972 U.S.

Open: Pebble Beach Golf Links (Jack Nicklaus) 1982 U.S. Open: Pebble Beach Golf Links (Tom Watson) 1982 U.S. Women’s Open: Del Paso Country Club, Sacramento (Janet Alex) 1987 U.S. Open: The Olympic Club (Lake Course), San Francisco (Scott Simpson) 1992 U.S. Open: Pebble Beach Golf Links (Tom Kite) 1998 U.S. Open: The Olympic Club (Lake Course), San Francisco (Lee Janzen) 1998 U.S. Senior Open: Riviera Country Club, Pacific Palisades (Hale Irwin) 2000 U.S. Open: Pebble Beach Golf Links (Tiger Woods) 2008 U.S. Open; Torrey Pines Golf Course (South Course), San Diego (Tiger Woods) 2010 U.S. Open: Pebble Beach Golf Links (Graeme McDowell) 2012 U.S. Open: The Olympic Club (Lake Course), San Francisco (Webb Simpson) U.S.

SENIOR OPENS IN CALIFORNIA 1998 U.S. Senior Open: Riviera Country Club, Pacific Palisades, Calif. (Hale Irwin) U.S. SENIOR OPEN – PAR-70 COURSES (10) Oakland Hills Country Club, Bloomfield Hills, Mich. (1981, 1991) Oak Hill Country Club, Rochester, N.Y. (1984) Olympia Fields (Ill.) Country Club (1997) Salem Country Club, Peabody, Mass. (2001) Prairie Dunes Country Club, Hutchinson, Kan. (2006) The Broadmoor (East Course), Colorado Springs, Colo. (2008) Sahalee Country Club, Sammamish, Wash. (2010) Indianwood Golf & Country Club (Old Course), Lake Orion, Mich. (2012) Omaha (Neb.) Country Club (2013) Del Paso Country Club, Sacramento, Calif. (2015) LONGEST PAR 3s in U.S.

SENIOR OPEN HISTORY 240 yards – 12th at The Broadmoor (East Course), Colorado Springs, Colo., 2008 230 yards – 3rd at Omaha (Neb.) Country Club, 2013 230 yards – 4th at Riviera Country Club, Pacific Palisades, Calif., 1998 228 yards – 6th at Inverness Club, Toledo, Ohio, 2003 228 yards – 15th at Inverness Club, Toledo, Ohio, 2011 228 yards – 5th at Del Paso Country Club, Sacramento, Calif., 2015 LONGEST PAR 4s in U.S.

SENIOR OPEN HISTORY 545 yards – 17th at The Broadmoor (East Course), Colorado Springs, Colo., 2008 501 yards – 10th at The Broadmoor (East Course), Colorado Springs, Colo., 2008 494 yards – 10th at Omaha (Neb.) Country Club, 2013 493 yards – 13th at The Broadmoor (East Course), Colorado Springs, Colo., 2008 490 yards – 3rd at Del Paso Country Club, Sacramento, Calif., 2015 489 yards – 12th at Indianwood Golf & Country Club (Old Course), Lake Orion, Mich., 2012 LONGEST PAR 5s IN U.S.

SENIOR OPEN HISTORY 636 yards – 15th at Del Paso Country Club, Sacramento, Calif., 2015 608 yards – 7th at Brooklawn Country Club, Fairfield, Conn., 1987 608 yards – 6th at Canterbury Golf Club, Beachwood, Ohio, 1996 601 yards – 3rd at The Broadmoor (East Course), Colorado Springs, Colo., 2008 600 yards – 5th at Crooked Stick Golf Club, Carmel, Ind., 2009 599 yards – 14th at Oak Tree National, Edmond, Okla., 2014 WINNERS OF U.S. OPEN AND U.S. SENIOR OPEN Billy Casper (1959, 1966 U.S. Open; 1983 U.S. Senior Open) Hale Irwin (1974, 1979, 1990 U.S. Open; 1998, 2000 U.S.

Senior Open) Orville Moody (1969 U.S. Open; 1989 U.S. Senior Open) Jack Nicklaus (1962, 1967, 1972, 1980 U.S. Open; 1991, 1993 U.S. Senior Open) Arnold Palmer (1960 U.S. Open; 1981 U.S. Senior Open) Gary Player (1965 U.S. Open; 1987, 1988 U.S. Senior Open) Lee Trevino (1968, 1971 U.S. Open: 1990 U.S.

Senior Open) THE LAST TIME IT HAPPENED AT THE SENIOR OPEN Colin Montgomerie – the last international winner (2014) Allen Doyle – the last to defend title successfully (2006) Roger Chapman – the last to win in his first appearance (2012) Colin Montgomerie – the last to win on his second attempt (2014) Olin Browne – the last start-to-finish winner with no ties (2011) Hale Irwin – the last winner to birdie the 72nd hole to win by one stroke (1998) Gary Player – the last winner without a round in the 60s (1988) Roger Chapman – the last winner with all rounds in the 60s (2012) Roger Chapman – the last defending champion to miss the cut (2013) Don Pooley – the last winner to come through sectional qualifying (2002) FUTURE SITES Aug.

11-14, 2016: Scioto Country Club, Columbus, Ohio June 29-July 2, 2017: Salem Country Club, Peabody, Mass. CHAMPIONSHIP TROPHY The U.S. Senior Open, first contested in 1980, is a relatively new national championship when compared with others conducted by the USGA. Yet the U.S. Senior Open Trophy is actually the oldest among the USGA’s championship trophies. On Sept. 24, 1894, the Tuxedo Club of Tuxedo Park, N.Y., invited three other clubs to compete in the first American interclub tournament. Shinnecock Hills Golf Club, Saint Andrew’s Golf Club, and The Country Club of Brookline, Mass., agreed to the challenge. While there is still some dispute as to which team won, The Country Club team, consisting of H.C. Leeds, Laurence Curtis, Robert Bacon and W.B. Thomas, returned home with the trophy. The sterling silver, hourglass-shaped cup remained in the club’s possession until the mid-1950s, when it was given to the USGA for exhibition.

In June 1980, with the USGA preparing for the first U.S. Senior Open, The Country Club suggested that the trophy be used as the formal award for the championship. The cup was presented “by the Country Club and Golfers of Massachusetts,” and formally dedicated as the Francis D. Ouimet Memorial Trophy. Roberto De Vicenzo received it at Winged Foot Golf Club as the inaugural champion. A replica of the trophy, complete with engraving of the 1894 Brookline team, was produced by the USGA in 1997 and awarded to Graham Marsh at Olympia Fields Country Club in Illinois. The original was then given its second and final retirement. The original U.S. Senior Open Trophy is on display at the USGA Museum in Far Hills, N.J. PHOTO MEDIA SERVICE The USGA will offer daily complimentary high-resolution photographs during the U.S. Senior Open (Monday-Sunday) for news use only. For more information and to register, contact photorequests@usga.org. IMPORTANT PHONE NUMBERS MEDIA OPERATIONS/SERVICE Please contact Brian DePasquale, Pete Kowalski or Stephanie DiPilla for more information regarding your U.S. Senior Open coverage.

Their contact information is: Brian DePasquale: bdepasquale@usga.org

Question: Which golfer became only the fifth in history to win both the British and US Open championships in the same year, in 1982?
Answer: Tom Watson