BROOKLINE — A capsule have a look at the three earlier U.S. Open golf championships held at The Country Club:
Year: 1913
Winner: Francis Ouimet
Score: 304
Margin: 36-hole playoff
Runners-up: Harry Vardon and Ted Ray.
Prize: None. Ouimet was an novice (Vardon gained $300).
Summary: In the best watershed second in American golf, 20-year-old novice Francis Ouimet shocked two of Britain’s finest golfers to seize the U.S. Open at The Country Club, a victory that put golf on the entrance pages of newspapers. The 1913 U.S. Open had been moved from June to September so Harry Vardon and Ted Ray may compete. Ouimet, who lived throughout the road from the seventeenth gap, was enjoying his first main championship. Ouimet was six photographs behind after the primary spherical. He adopted with rounds of 74-74 to share the 54-hole lead with Vardon and Ray, and he saved tempo over the ultimate spherical to match 79s and drive an 18-hole playoff. In powerful, wet circumstances, Ouimet shot 72, whereas Vardon had a 78 and Ray shot 79. The gallery was among the many largest ever in America for a golf match, and it was hailed as one of many largest upsets in sports activities. Before lengthy, America started to switch the Old World in golf supremacy.
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Year: 1963
Winner: Julius Boros
Score: 293.
Margin: Playoff.
Runners-up: Arnold Palmer and Jackie Cupit.
Prize: $17,500.
Summary: The U.S. Open returned to The Country Club to have fun the 50-year anniversary of Francis Ouimet’s gorgeous victory. It led to one other playoff in a few of the hardest scoring within the post-World War II period, with Julius Boros capturing his second U.S. Open. Cupit had the 54-hole lead, however Boros birdied two of his final three holes for a 72 to submit at 293. Cupit had a two-shot lead till a double bogey on the seventeenth gap, and he missed a 12-foot birdie putt on the 18th for a win. Cupit shot 75, whereas Palmer had a 74. In the playoff, Boros shot 33 on the entrance to grab management and he wound up with a 70 to beat Cupit by three photographs. Palmer fell again with a triple bogey on the eleventh gap and shot 76. Palmer misplaced in a U.S. Open playoff for the second straight yr. Defending champion Jack Nicklaus missed the reduce. He didn’t miss one other reduce within the U.S. Open till 1985.
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Year: 1988
Winner: Curtis Strange
Score: 278.
Margin: Playoff.
Runner-up: Nick Faldo.
Prize: $180,000.
Summary: Curtis Strange atoned for shedding the 1985 Masters by successful his first main within the 1988 U.S. Open. Strange had a one-shot lead over Nick Faldo, Bob Gilder and defending champion Scott Simpson going into the ultimate spherical. He closed with a 1-over 272, however solely after saving par from the entrance bunker on the 18th gap to drive the playoff with Faldo. The 18-hole playoff was tight till the par-4 thirteenth gap, when Strange holed an 18-foot birdie putt and Faldo three-putted for bogey. The two-shot swing gave Strange a three-shot lead. Faldo closed the hole with a birdie on the 14th, however he acquired no nearer. Strange shot 71. Faldo, the reigning British Open champion, made three bogeys during the last 4 holes for a 75. It was the primary of back-to-back U.S. Open titles for Strange.
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