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The first U.S. Open at Oakmont was won by Tommy Armour, who defeated Harry Cooper in an 18-hole Friday playoff. Their 72-hole score was 301 (+13); the par-72 course played to 6,929 yards (6,336 m) in 1927 (the first and ninth holes were both par 5). [4]
In 1992, the Nissan Los Angeles Open at Riviera CC was the site of Tiger Woods' first PGA Tour event as an amateur player, as a 16-year-old high school sophomore. [16] Neither Woods nor Jack Nicklaus have won the event; Woods lost in a playoff in 1998 (at Valencia) [ 17 ] and was again a runner-up the next year at Riviera, [ 18 ] while Nicklaus ...
The Riviera was designed by golf course architects George C. Thomas Jr. and William P. Bell, [1] it has been the primary host for the Genesis Invitational (originally the Los Angeles Open), an annual event on the PGA Tour in February. The 2023 edition was the 61st held at Riviera.
Smith became the resident golf professional at Oakmont Country Club in Glendale, California, from 1934 to 1949. He won a PGA Tour event, the Oakmont Open, there in 1935. [11] He continued to play a few PGA Tour events per season into the early 1940s. [12] He was playing with Babe Didrikson at Oakmont when she scored her first hole in one in ...
The PGA Championship is an annual golf competition formerly held in mid-August until 2019, when it moved to mid-May. It was established in 1916 and is one of the four major championships played each year which include the Masters, the U.S. Open, and the Open Championship (British Open). [1]
The 2016 United States Open Championship was the 116th U.S. Open, held June 16–19 at Oakmont Country Club in Oakmont and Plum, Pennsylvania, suburbs northeast of Pittsburgh. [1] Dustin Johnson won his first major championship .
He is one of six champions to win wire-to-wire with his victory in 1953. Jack Nicklaus, four-time U.S. Open Champion in 1962, 1967, 1972, and 1980. Hale Irwin, three-time U.S. Open Champion in 1974, 1979 and 1990. Tiger Woods, three-time U.S. Open Champion in 2000, 2002, and 2008. He is one of six champions to win wire-to-wire with his victory ...
As of the 2024 season, 233 golfers have won one of men's professional golf's four major championships – the modern accepted definition of the majors has only existed since the 1960s but wins in these tournaments have been retrospectively recognized by all the major sanctioning organizations.