U.S. Open Golf Championships
June 18-21, 2009 - Bethpage Black Golf Club - Farmingdale, New York

The US Open is the second of the year’s four golf majors. It is played during the month of June each year and comes two months after the first major of the year, the US Masters and falls around five weeks before the British Open, which is the only major golf tournament to be played outside of the USA.

The 2009 US Open Championship golf tournament promises to be an exhilarating test of pure skill as the current US Open Championship, Tiger Woods, defends the 2008 title he won in a sudden death match. The world's top golf pros will be forced to play accurate drives down the narrow fairways.

The fortunate US Open Championship winners will claim a share of the prize money, which is set at an astonishing $7,500,000 for the 2009 US Open golf tournament.

The 2008 U.S. Open was one for the ages! It took 91 holes to find a U.S. Open Champion. In the end, it was the great (and injured) Tiger Woods squeaking by the 20-year tour veteran Rocco Mediate on a sudden death hole at Torrey Pines.

With the win, Tiger won his 3rd U.S. Open title and 14th career major. In 2009, the U.S. Open returns to Bethpage Black in New York. Can Tiger repeat and inch one step closer to Jack Nicklaus’ unprecedented 18 career majors?

Winning the US Open is one of golf’s greatest achievements. Each June amateur and professional players alike complete four days of 18-hole rounds of golf in the quest to win this event.

The leading annual men’s golf tournament in the United States is the US Open. The US Open is held every year in June, with the final round played on the third Sunday of that month. The U.S. Open golf tournament is one of golf's four majors, and it is the one run by the United States Golf Association, one of golf's two governing bodies. The U.S. Open takes place at a number of grounds, which are generally established so that low scoring is practically impossible. Actually, an Open course is longer than a usual one and has rough, hilly greens and pinched fairways. Some grounds, that try to get on the rotation for the tournament, are redesigned in order to receive these features.

Any professional, or to any amateur golfer with an up-to-date USGA Handicap Index not more than 1.4 the U.S. Open can take part in the tournament and obtain a place by being fully exempt or by competing successfully in Qualifying. The field usually comprises 156 golfers.

About half of the field consists of players that are fully exempt from qualifying. There are generally 17 full exemption categories, among them there are champions of the U.S. Open for the last ten years and the other three major golf tournaments for the last five years, the best 30 from the previous year's PGA Tour money list, the best 15 from the previous year's European Tour money list, and the best 50 in the Official World Golf Rankings according to the poll, held two weeks before the tournament.

2009 US Open Results

The men's final on Monday, the US Open tennis 2009 results just may have Del Potro winning the title of his favorite tournament.

The number 6 seed Del Potro has now beaten Nadal three times this year. After Sunday’s 6-2, 6-2, 6-2 lost to Del Potro, Nadal leads their match total 4-3.

2009 US Open - Gambling On Golf

Gambling on golf is as natural as grass. It's a game that sets up perfectly for all manner of gambling, and the handicapping system allows players of vastly disparate talent to play for a buck or two. At $50 a pop, golf bettors in The Shootout aren't going to make or lose a fortune.

Golf gambling raises the psychological ante of the game. It goes beyond posting a better score. It inflates the winner's ego (and wallet) when he takes some green off another man. Gambling extracts a price for mistakes, rewards good play with the feel of bills being pressed into the palm.

One of the most infamous betting matches of all time occurred between Lee Trevino and Ray Floyd, two of professional golf's greatest competitors. The betting match took place in the mid-1960s. Floyd was a newly qualified PGA Tour pro and Trevino was an assistant professional at the Horizon Hills Country Club in El Paso, Texas. Floyd was bold and brash, but had not yet come to glory and had yet to win a Masters, a U.S. Open or a PGA Championship. Trevino hadn't qualified for the PGA Tour yet, but wasn't far off from the first of his six major championships, the 1968 U.S. Open.

The match was arranged for at least 36 holes, maybe 54. Floyd's backers had bets in the thousands against Trevino's backers. And Floyd had $1,000 of his own money riding. In the first round, Floyd shot a 66 and Trevino beat him by three shots. Floyd wanted to play another nine holes, but Trevino told him he had to put away the carts and straighten up the bag room. So Floyd stayed around until the next day, passing the time by playing cards and dove shooting, then they went out and played for another $1,000. "I shot 65.

He shot 63," says Floyd. "My backers didn't want to stick around for another match, but I did. This guy's got $2,000 of my money and I wanted it back."

The next day the backers bets were doubled. It came down to the 18th hole, a par 5. "I had an eagle putt from 18 feet and Lee was just inside me," say Floyd. "I make mine for a 63. His putt doesn't go in, but I still to this day don't know how it didn't. I beat him 63 to 64.

U.S. Open Golf History

Horace Rawlins, an Englishman, won the first U.S. Open title in October, 1895, on a nine-hole course in New Port, RI. Ten professionals and one amateur competed in the 36-hole tournament played in one day. Rawlins won $150 cash, a $50 gold medal and a trophy out of a prize fund of $325.

The U.S. Open, which is one of the four major golf tournaments held yearly, didn’t have an American-born winner until 1911 when John J. McDermott won at the Chicago Golf Club. The other majors are The Masters, The US Open and the Professional Golfers Association (PGA) championship.

Players from only four nations, other than the United States, have won the U.S. Open since 1950. South African golfers lead the way with five championships since 1965.

The last three U.S. Opens have been won by non-American golfers. Retief Goosen, South Africa, won in 2005; Michael Campbell, New Zealand, in 2005; and Geoff Ogilvy, Australia, in 2006. No European player has won since England’s Tony Jacklin, captured the crown in 1970.

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