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The 1997 United States Open Championship was the 97th U.S. Open, held June 12–15 at the Blue Course of Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Maryland, a suburb northwest of Washington, D.C. Ernie Els won his second U.S. Open, the second of his four major championships, one stroke ahead of runner-up Colin Montgomerie. [1] [2] [3]
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 ...
Year Order [a] The Open Championship [1] U.S. Open [2] PGA Championship [3] Masters Tournament [4]; 1860: O Willie Park Sr. tournament started in 1895: tournament started in 1916
The 1997 Open Championship was a men's major golf championship and the 126th Open Championship, held from 17 to 20 July at the Royal Troon Golf Club in Troon, Scotland. Justin Leonard won his only major championship and was the fifth consecutive American to win at Royal Troon.
Venus Williams made her US Open debut in 1997, and she's reflecting on that fortuitous tournament 20 years later as she prepares to play in the 2017 US Open as the No. 9 seed.
Hale S. Irwin (born June 3, 1945) is an American professional golfer.He was one of the world's leading golfers from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. He is one of the few players in history to win three U.S. Opens, becoming the oldest ever U.S. Open champion in 1990 at the age of 45.
Harry Vardon, six-time Open Champion in 1896, 1898, 1899, 1903, 1911, and 1914, which is a record. The Open Championship is an annual golf competition held in the United Kingdom that was established in 1860. [1] It is played on the weekend of the third Friday in July, and is the last of the four major championships to be played each year. [2]
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.