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The 2002 United States Open Championship was the 102nd U.S. Open, held June 13–16 at the Black Course of Bethpage State Park in Farmingdale, New York, east of New York City on Long Island. Tiger Woods was the champion at 277 (−3), three shots ahead of runner-up Phil Mickelson.
Prior to 2002, all U.S. Opens had been staged at private golf venues that, while nominally open to the public, had several hundred dollar greens fees per round. [citation needed] Bethpage being selected in 2002 as the first publicly owned and operated golf course to host the tournament [16] was seen as an egalitarian move by the USGA. [citation ...
The park has five eighteen-hole golf courses, named (in increasing order of difficulty) the Yellow, Green, Blue, Red, and Black Courses. [9] In 2002 the Black Course became the first publicly owned and operated course to host the U.S. Open. The tournament was won by Tiger Woods, being the only golfer to score under par for the tournament.
The crowd is as notorious as the difficulty of Bethpage Black, the first truly public golf course (excluding high-end resorts) to host the Ryder Cup. It previously held the U.S. Open in 2002 and 2009, and the PGA Championship in 2019, when Brooks Koepka heard it from the crowd as he was letting a big lead slip away before holding on to win.
Mickelson has twice finished runner-up (2002, 2009) in the U.S. Open at the Black Course at Bethpage State Park on Long Island, which will host the 2025 Ryder Cup. Woods won the 2002 U.S. Open at ...
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 in 2000 and 2002. Woods is the only champion in U.S. Open history to accomplish it twice.
The 2025 Ryder Cup will take place at the Bethpage Black Course at Bethpage State Park in New York from Sept. 26-28. ... Bethpage has hosted the 2002 U.S. Open (winner: Tiger Woods), the 2009 U.S ...
Contact us; Contribute ... He is known for having played in the U.S. Open at the age of 16 at Bethpage Black in 2002. [1] ... 2012 Colorado Open; References ...