He closed with a 74 to win by one shot over Gregory Havret of France. Open champion in 25 years by surviving another wind-blown final round at Pebble Beach. Summary: Graeme McDowell had the highest winning score by a U.S. Woods had season-ending surgery on his left knee a week later. Both shot 71 in the playoff, and Woods won with a par at No. Grimacing at times through the pain, Woods made a 12-foot birdie putt on the last hole to force a playoff. He had shredded ligaments in his left knee and a double stress fracture in his left leg. Open at Pebble Beach was about perfect, Tiger Woods at Torrey Pines was about grit. Winning score: 283 (Both shot shot 71 in the playoff, Woods won on the first extra hole with a par) That promoted Roger Maltbie to famously say, “It’s not a fair fight.” It really wasn’t. The signature moment was his 7-iron out of deep rough on the par-5 sixth hole, up the hill and onto the green. Woods played the final 26 holes without a bogey and finished at 12-under par, the first player to finish in double digits under par at U.S. He led by six shots after two rounds, 10 shots going into the final round. It started with a 65, the lowest score ever in a U.S. Even with a triple bogey in the third round, he set the major championship record with a 15-shot victory. Summary: This still embodies Tiger Woods at his best. Runner-up: Ernie Els, Miguel Angel Jimenez He was headed back to the tee when it dropped to the ground, saving him two shots. Janzen’s biggest break was when his tee shot got stuck in a tree on the fifth hole. Stewart had led from the opening round and built his lead to seven shots early in the final round when Janzen made a pair of bogeys. Summary: Lee Janzen made up a five-shot deficit against Payne Stewart by closing with a 68 to win his second U.S. The wind was so strong that when Colin Montgomerie shot 70 to post at even-par 288, Jack Nicklaus in the broadcast booth congratulated him on winning. Gil Morgan became the first player to reach double digits under par at any point, only to post rounds of 77 and 81 in the final round. Summary: Tom Kite survived a wild, wind-blown final round at Pebble Beach by closing with a 72 to win his only major at age 42. Watson needed to make a 45-foot birdie putt on the 18th to force a playoff, and the putt stopped inches from the hole. Simpson pulled away with birdies on the 14th, 15th and 16th holes. Summary: Scott Simpson captured his only major with a rally on the back nine for a 68 to win by two shots over Watson. He birdied the 18th for a two-shot win, denying Nicklaus a fifth U.S. His caddie, Bruce Edwards, urged him to hit the chip close. Watson was tied for the lead and hit 2-iron on the 17th over the green.
Nicklaus already was in the clubhouse at 284. Summary: The 17th hole at Pebble Beach was memorable again, this time for Tom Watson. Open is best remembered for Nicklaus hitting 1-iron off the pin on the par-3 17th. Nicklaus had won the Bing Crosby National Pro-Am at Pebble earlier in the year. This was the first time Pebble Beach hosted the U.S. Bruce Crampton was the runner-up in both majors. Summary: Jack Nicklaus, coming off a three-shot win in the Masters, captured the second leg of the Grand Slam with a three-shot win at Pebble Beach. Palmer, like Hogan 11 years before him, never won another major. Palmer had a two-shot lead with seven holes to play, but played the next five holes in 5-over par. A 36 on the back nine would have done it. Palmer had his sights set on Ben Hogan’s U.S. Summary: In a stunning comeback and collapse, Billy Casper rallied from a seven-shot deficit over the final nine holes for a 68 to catch Arnold Palmer and force a playoff.
Winning score: 278 (Casper shot 69 in the playoff to Palmer’s 73). That began Olympic’s reputation as the “Graveyard of Champions.” Hogan never won another major. Fleck had a one-shot lead playing the 18th in the playoff when Hogan hooked his drive into the rough, slashed at it twice to get it back in play and made double bogey. Open when he birdied two of the last four holes for a 67 to force an 18-hole playoff. Summary: In one of the biggest upsets in golf, Jack Fleck denied Ben Hogan a record fifth U.S. Winning score: 287 (Fleck shot 69 in the playoff to Hogan’s 72). Open record that stood until Jack Nicklaus broke it at Baltusrol in 1967. Open, which followed wins at Riviera in the Los Angeles Open in 19.
Summary: Riviera became “Hogan’s Alley” when Ben Hogan won his first U.S.
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