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The 2007 United States Open Championship was the 107th U.S. Open, held June 14–17 at Oakmont Country Club in Oakmont, Pennsylvania, a suburb northeast of Pittsburgh. [1] Ángel Cabrera won his first major championship, one stroke ahead of runners-up Jim Furyk and Tiger Woods, who were unable to birdie the 72nd hole to force a Monday playoff. [2]
The U.S. Open is an annual golf competition established in 1895, with Horace Rawlins winning the inaugural championship. [1] It is run by the United States Golf Association (USGA). The championship was not held from 1917 to 1918 or from 1942 to 1945 due to World War I and World War II respectively.
World Golf Championships: Henrik Stenson: 22-25 Mar: WGC-CA Championship: World Golf Championships: Tiger Woods: 29 Mar-1 Apr: Kraft Nabisco Championship: LPGA major: Morgan Pressel: 5-8 Apr: The Masters: Men's major: Zach Johnson: 10–13 May: The Players Championship: PGA Tour: Phil Mickelson: 22–25 May: NCAA Division I Women's Golf ...
The United States Open Championship, commonly known as the U.S. Open, is the annual open national championship of golf in the United States. It is the third of the four men's major golf championships, and is on the official schedule of both the PGA Tour and the European Tour.
It has also hosted three PGA Championships, six U.S. Amateurs, three NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championships, and two U.S. Women's Opens. In total championships hosted (21) [need clarification - "championships" is not defined and the number of championships listed below is only 19], it also far outranks any other course [need citation].
Carnoustie hosted its first Open Championship in 1931 and the 2007 Open was the seventh to be held at Carnoustie, and third consecutive to end in a playoff. Carnoustie's prestige in the golf community is irrefutable as the list of champions includes Tommy Armour (1931), Henry Cotton (), Ben Hogan (), Gary Player (), Tom Watson and Paul Lawrie ().
2007 U.S. Open may refer to: 2007 U.S. Open (golf), a major golf tournament; 2007 US Open (tennis), a Grand Slam tennis tournament; 2007 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup, a soccer tournament for U.S. teams; 2007 US Open (darts) 2007 U.S. Open Grand Prix, a badminton tournament
The 2007 LPGA Tour was a series of golf tournaments for elite female golfers from around the world that took place from February through December 2007. The tournaments were sanctioned by the United States–based Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA). In 2007, prize money on the LPGA Tour was $54.285 million, the highest to date.