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2001 U.S. Open (golf)
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2001 U.S. Open 2001OpenLogo.jpg 150 June 14–18, 2001 Tulsa, Oklahoma Southern Hills Country Club USGA PGA Tour European Tour Japan Golf Tour 70 6973 yd 156 players, 79 after cut 146 (+6) $5,000,000€5,878,883 $900,000€1,058,199http://www.europeantour.com/europeantour/season=2001/tournamentid=2001034/index.html European Tour U.S. Open Championship: leaderboard June 18, 2001 June 14, 2012 ZAF Retief Goosen 276 (−4), playoff 2000 2002
USA 1 Tulsa top 36.070 -95.946 Location in the United States 5 235
USA Oklahoma 1 Tulsa 36.070 -95.946 Location in Oklahoma 5 160
The 2001 United States Open Championship was the 101st U.S. Open, held June 14–18 at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The U.S. Open returned to Southern Hills for the first time since 1977. Retief Goosen won the first of his two U.S. Open titles in an 18-hole Monday playoff, two strokes ahead of runner-up Mark Brooks. The tournament was also notable for ending defending champion Tiger Woods' run of four consecutive major championship wins, the "Tiger Slam;" he finished seven strokes back in a tie for twelfth. Woods reclaimed the U.S. Open title the following year, and won the PGA Championship at Southern Hills in 2007.
The total purse was $5 million with a winner's share of $900,000.
At the end of the final round on Sunday, Brooks three-putted his way out of the lead on the 72nd hole. In the final pairing, co-leaders Goosen and Stewart Cink both had approach shots from the 18th fairway. Cink missed the green long and then three-putted from 15 ft 0.5 in to double bogey. Goosen had 10 ft 0 in for birdie, but also three-putted to tie Brooks, forcing the next-day playoff.https://www.usatoday.com/sports/golf/usopen01/2001-06-17-cover.htm#more USA Today No winner at Open as putting woes prevail Potter Jerry June 18, 2001 June 14, 2012
Course
This U.S. Open was the third at Southern Hills and its sixth major championship. Former Open champions were Tommy Bolt in 1958, and Hubert Green in 1977. The course also previously hosted the PGA Championship in 1970, 1982, and 1994, all played in August, and later hosted the 2007 event.
Course layout
Hole123456789Out101112131415161718InTotalYards4544674083686421753822253743,4953741654565342154124913654663,4786,973 Par444453434354345344443570
Lengths of the course in previous major championships:
6834 yd, par 70 - 1994 PGA Championship
6862 yd, par 70 - 1982 PGA Championship
6873 yd, par 70 - 1977 U.S. Open
6962 yd, par 70 - 1970 PGA Championship
6907 yd, par 70 - 1958 U.S. Open
Field
Sixty-seven players were exempt and the remainder earned their place through sectional qualifying.https://www.golfchannel.com/article/golf-channel-newsroom/58-players-exempt-2001-us-open 58 Players Exempt For 2001 U.S. Open June 10, 2023am (a) – denotes amateur.
Exemptions
1. Last 10 U.S. Open Champions
15em
Ernie Els (8,9,10,17)
Lee Janzen
Steve Jones
Tom Kite
Corey Pavin
Tiger Woods (3,4,5,6,8,9,11,12,17)
2. The U.S. Amateur champion
Jeff Quinney (a)
3. Last five Masters Champions
15em
José María Olazábal (8,10,17)
Mark O'Meara (4)
Vijay Singh (5,8,9,11,17)
4. Last five British Open Champions
15em
Paul Lawrie
Tom Lehman (9,17)
Justin Leonard (9,17)
5. Last five PGA Champions
15em
Mark Brooks
Davis Love III (9,11,17)
6. The Players Champion
7. The U.S. Senior Open Champion
Hale Irwin
8. Top 15 finishers and ties in the 2000 U.S. Open
15em
Paul Azinger (9,17)
Michael Campbell (10,14,17)
Stewart Cink (9,17)
David Duval (9,17)
Nick Faldo
Retief Goosen (10,17)
Pádraig Harrington (10,17)
John Huston (9,17)
Miguel Ángel Jiménez (10,17)
Loren Roberts (9,17)
Lee Westwood (10,17)
9. Top 30 leaders on the 2000 PGA Tour official money list
15em
Robert Allenby (12,17)
Stuart Appleby (17)
Notah Begay III (12,17)
Mark Calcavecchia (11,17)
Chris DiMarco
Steve Flesch
Carlos Franco
Jim Furyk (17)
Franklin Langham
Bob May (17)
Phil Mickelson (11,12,17)
Jesper Parnevik (12,17)
Chris Perry (17)
Nick Price (17)
Hal Sutton (11,17)
David Toms (11,12,17)
Kirk Triplett (17)
Scott Verplank (17)
Mike Weir (17)
10. Top 15 on the 2000 European Tour Order of Merit
15em
Thomas Bjørn (17)
Ángel Cabrera (14,17)
Darren Clarke (17)
José Cóceres (17)
Pierre Fulke (17)
Colin Montgomerie (17)
Gary Orr
Phillip Price
11. Top 10 on the PGA Tour official money list, as of May 28Available at https://www.pgatour.com/stats/detail/109.
15em
Joe Durant (12,17)
Brad Faxon (17)
Frank Lickliter (17)
12. Winners of multiple PGA Tour events from April 26, 2000, through June 3, 2001
13. Special exemptions selected by the USGA
14. Top 2 from the 2001 European Tour Order of Merit, as of May 28
15. Top 2 on the 2000 Japan Golf Tour money list, provided they are within the top 75 of the Official World Golf Rankings at that time
15em
Shingo Katayama (17)
Toru Taniguchi
16. Top 2 on the 2000–01 PGA Tour of Australasia money list, provided they are within the top 75 of the Official World Golf Rankings at that time
Neither was inside the top 75.
17. Top 50 on the Official World Golf Rankings list, as of May 28Available for download at https://www.owgr.com/archive.
15em
Sergio García
Scott Hoch
Toshimitsu Izawa
Bernhard Langer
Rocco Mediate
Dennis Paulson
Eduardo Romero
Duffy Waldorf
Qualifiers
Source:http://www.usopen.com/Players/2001sectionalresults.html U.S. Open sectional qualifying results June 24, 2001 https://web.archive.org/web/20010624072323/http://www.usopen.com/Players/2001sectionalresults.html
Location Venue Field Spots Qualifiersam Tarzana, California El Caballero Country Club 76 4 Chris Anderson, Chris Gonzales, Thongchai Jaidee, Anthony Kang Denver, Colorado Columbine Country Club 29 2 Kyle Blackman, John Douma Tampa, Florida Old Memorial Golf Club 66 4 Jeff Barlow, Jason Dufner, Donnie Hammond, Gary Koch Atlanta, Georgia East Lake Golf Club 64 4 Billy Andrade, Joey Maxon, Bryce Molder (a), Charles Raulerson Chicago, Illinois Cantigny Golf Club 40 3 Jess Daley, John Harris (a), Marty Schiene Rockville, Maryland Woodmont Country Club 48 3 Ben Bates, Olin Browne, Joel Kribel Kansas City, Missouri Blue Hills Country Club 25 2 Matt Gogel, Tom Pernice Jr. Purchase, New York Old Oaks Country Club andCentury Country Club 81 5 Michael Allen, Scott Dunlap, George Frake II, Jim McGovern, Tim Petrovic Cleveland, Ohio Kirtland Country Club 22 2 Chad Campbell, Brad Klapprott Columbus, Ohio Lakes Golf and Country Club andDouble Eagle Golf Club 120 26 Fred Couples, Glen Day, Todd Fischer, Harrison Frazar, Jeff Freeman, Fred Funk, Robert Gamez, Stephen Gangluff, Dudley Hart, Tim Herron, Charles Howell III, Skip Kendall, Peter Lonard, Steve Lowery, John Maginnes, Gary Nicklaus, Carl Paulson, Brett Quigley, Jarmo Sandelin, Chris Smith, Mike Sposa, Steve Stricker, Kevin Sutherland, Esteban Toledo, Bob Tway, Dean Wilson Memphis, Tennessee Colonial Country Club 135 29 Briny Baird, Rich Beem, Ronnie Black, Jay Don Blake, Tom Byrum, Brandel Chamblee, K. J. Choi, Robert Damron, Bob Estes, Dan Forsman, Paul Goydos, Mathias Grönberg, Jeff Hart, Brian Henninger, Gabriel Hjertstedt, Mike Hulbert, Tripp Isenhour, Brandt Jobe, Kevin Johnson, Pete Jordan, J. L. Lewis, Jeff Maggert, Shaun Micheel, David Peoples, Dicky Pride, Mark Wiebe, Jay Williamson, Willie Wood, Richard Zokol Dallas, Texas Northwood Club 43 3 Clark Dennis, Jimmy Walker, Chris Wall Snoqualmie, Washington TPC Snoqualmie Ridge 21 2 Wes Heffernan, Scott Johnson
Round summaries
First round
Thursday, June 14, 2001
Friday, June 15, 2001
Severe thunderstorms halted play Thursday afternoon with only 66 players completing their rounds. South Africa's Goosen completed an opening round of 66, four-under-par, to lead the way. Goosen resumed his unfinished round at three-under-par and raced to six-under, but bogeys at the 16th and 17th took the edge off his round. However, it was enough to earn him a one-stroke lead over three-time champion Hale Irwin and Canadian Mike Weir with tour journeyman J. L. Lewis one stroke further back. Irwin, age 56, won his last U.S. Open title in 1990; he capped his opening 67 (−3) with a birdie at the treacherous par-four 18th. Woods could only manage a first round of 74 (+4), eight shots off the lead. He bogeyed the ninth, before recording his first birdie of the round at the 15th. But even that could not spark a revival in his fortunes as he bogeyed the last.
PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 ZAF Retief Goosen66−4T2 USA Hale Irwin67−3 CAN Mike Weir4 USA J. L. Lewis68−2T5 USA Stewart Cink69−1 USA Chris DiMarco JPN Toshimitsu Izawa USA Jeff Maggert USA Loren RobertsT10 ARG Ángel Cabrera70E USA Mark Calcavecchia ARG José Cóceres USA David Duval USA Bob Estes USA Jim Furyk ESP Sergio García USA Matt Gogel USA Phil Mickelson USA Corey Pavin USA Hal Sutton
Second round
Friday, June 15, 2001
Saturday, June 16, 2001
The delay created by Thursday's thunderstorms meant 33 players could not finish the second round on Friday, and had to play Saturday morning. The cut line was 146 (+6) with 79 players making the cut. Brooks fired a 64 (−6) Friday to grab a share of the lead. Goosen, who led after the first round was completed Friday morning, and Lewis joined Brooks at 136 (−4). Sergio García and Stewart Cink were tied for fourth at two-under par. Phil Mickelson and David Duval, players who briefly flirted with the lead during Woods' run at the Masters in April, were knotted at 139 (−1) after each posted 69 on Friday. Woods shot a 71 for 145 (+5), one stroke ahead of the cut.
PlacePlayerScoreTo parT1 USA Mark Brooks 72-64=136 −4 ZAF Retief Goosen 66-70=136 USA J. L. Lewis 68-68=136T4 USA Stewart Cink69-69=138 −2 ESP Sergio García 70-68=138T6 USA David Duval 70-69=139 −1 USA Rocco Mediate 71-68=139 USA Phil Mickelson 70-69=139 USA Matt Gogel70-69=13910 USA Jim Furyk 70-70=140 E
Amateurs: Molder (+6), Harris (+13), Quinney (+15).
Third round
Saturday, June 16, 2001
Cink finished with a three-under 67 and a share of the third-round lead with Goosen. One of three leaders at the start of the day, Goosen parred each of the last nine holes despite a number of wayward shots down the stretch. The 32-year-old South African managed a 69 to push the leading total to 205 (−5). Brooks, a co-leader of Goosen's after a tournament-low 64 on Friday, shot even-par 70 to join Rocco Mediate and García in third place at 206 (−4). Mickelson, who ended the day three under, was the first big name to make a charge in the third round. Woods shot a 69 for 214 (+4), nine strokes back in tie for 23rd.
PlacePlayerScoreTo parT1 USA Stewart Cink 69-69-67=205 −5 ZAF Retief Goosen 66-70-69=205T3 USA Mark Brooks72-64-70=206−4 ESP Sergio García70-68-68=206 USA Rocco Mediate71-68-67=2066 USA Phil Mickelson 70-69-68=207 −3T7 USA Paul Azinger 74-67-69=210 E USA David Duval 70-69-71=210T9 USA Jim Furyk 70-70-71=211 +1 CAN Mike Weir 67-76-68=211
Final round
Sunday, June 17, 2001
Goosen missed a 2 ft 1 on in par putt at the 72nd hole to fall back into a tie with Brooks, forcing an 18-hole playoff on Monday. Brooks was in the clubhouse when Goosen charged his 10 ft 0 on in birdie putt past the cup. Goosen, after watching his playing partner and co-leader Cink miss a 20 in cm -1 on putt for bogey, pushed his short par putt by the right edge of the cup. He then sank a short bogey putt to finish regulation alongside Brooks at four-under-par 276. When Goosen and Cink dialed it up to go to five-under, Brooks responded by two-putting for birdie at the par-five 13th. The lead was his after Cink drove into a creek for bogey at 13 and Goosen suffered his first three-putt of the championship at the 14th. Goosen, who stoically battled to hold on to a piece of the top spot all week, knocked his approach at the 15th to the back fringe and rolled in a 12-footer to return to minus-five with Brooks. Brooks' 200 yd on approach to 18 landed 40 ft in left of the right-side pin placement. His first putt was too hard and sped 8 ft in past the hole, and his par try stopped on the right edge. The bogey gave Brooks an even-par 70 and dropped him to four-under. Back at 17, Cink replaced Brooks as co-leader after a brilliant wedge approach over the flag landed past the pin before spinning back to two feet for birdie.
Two players who had been expected to make a charge in the final round - Mickelson and García - blew their chances with poor displays. The most eye-catching performances of the day came from Vijay Singh and Tom Kite, who both stormed to 64 (−6) - the best rounds of the week - and Olin Browne, who sank a hole-in-one at the 11th. Woods, winner of the previous four major championships, failed to make a charge on Sunday and saw his run come to an end. He turned in his second straight 69 to finish seven strokes back, tied for 12th at 283 (+3), snapping streaks of eight straight top-10s in majors and 40 consecutive events under par.
PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney ($)T1 ZAF Retief Goosen 66-70-69-71=276 −4 Playoff USA Mark Brooks 72-64-70-70=2763 USA Stewart Cink 69-69-67-72=277 −3 340,3654 USA Rocco Mediate 71-68-67-72=278 −2 226,777T5 USA Paul Azinger 74-67-69-71=281 +1 172,912 USA Tom Kite 73-72-72-64=281T7 ARG Ángel Cabrera 70-71-72-69=282 +2 125,172 USA Davis Love III 72-69-71-70=282 USA Phil Mickelson 70-69-68-75=282 FJI Vijay Singh 74-70-74-64=282 USA Kirk Triplett 72-69-71-70=282
Amateurs: Molder (+8).
Scorecard
Final round
Hole 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 101112131415161718Par 4 4 4 4 5 3 4 3 4 4 3 4 5 3 4 4 4 4ZAF Goosen −5 −5 −5 −5 −5 −6 −6 −5 −4 −5 −5 −5 −5 −4 −5 −5 −5 −4USA Brooks −4 −4 −4 −4 −3 −3 −3 −3 −3 −3 −4 −4 −5 −5 −5 −5 −5 −4USA Cink −5 −5 −5 −5 −4 −4 −4 −4 −4 −4 −5 −5 −4 −4 −4 −4 −5 −3USA Mediate −5 −5 −4 −5 −5 −4 −4 −3 −4 −3 −2 −2 −2 −1 −1 −1 −1 −2 USA Azinger −1 −1 −1 −1 −1 −1 −1 E E E E +1 E +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 USA Kite +6 +6 +6 +6 +6 +7 +6 +5 +5 +4 +3 +3 +2 +2 +2 +2 +1 +1USA Mickelson −3 −3 −3 −2 −3 −3 −3 −3 −2 −1 −1 −1 E E +1 +1 +2 +2USA Woods +4 +5 +5 +4 +3 +3 +2 +2 +3 +3 +2 +2 +2 +2 +2 +2 +3 +3ESP García −4 −3 −3 −3 −2 −2 −2 −2 E E E +1 E E +1 +2 +3 +3USA Duval +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +2 +2 +1 +3 +3 +3 +3 +4
Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par
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Source:https://www.espn.com/golf/leaderboard?tournamentId=25 ESPN 2001 U.S. Open leaderboard June 18, 2001 May 25, 2013
Playoff
Monday, June 18, 2001
In the 18-hole playoff, Brooks birdied the third hole and Goosen the sixth to pull even at one-under par. Brooks bogeyed the seventh and again at the ninth, while Goosen birdied it to go three strokes up at the turn. Brooks bogeyed #10 while Goosen birdied to take a five-shot lead with eight holes to be played. They halved the next six holes, all pars except bogeys at #12, and Goosen maintained his five-stroke lead with just two holes remaining.
A two-shot swing in Brooks' favor at the 17th cut the lead to three, but Brooks, who struggled off the tee all day, sent his final drive into the right-hand rough. He chose a fairway wood for his approach and did well to run his ball into the bunker short and left of the final green. Goosen found the 18th fairway with his drive, then hit a five-iron that landed short of the green and rolled 20 yd back down the slope. Taking no chances with his tight uphill lie, Goosen used a putter to knock his ball onto the putting surface, leaving 25 ft for his par. Brooks blasted out of the trap to three feet and converted for par for a two-over 72. Goosen cautiously left his par putt 5 ft on in short, then rolled in the clinching putt for an even-par 70 and became just the sixth foreign-born winner of the U.S. Open in the last 70 years. Goosen became the third South African to win the title, joining Gary Player and Ernie Els as champions of the USGA's premier event.
PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney ($)1 ZAF Retief Goosen 70 E 900,0002 USA Mark Brooks 72 +2 530,000
Scorecard
Hole 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 101112131415161718Par 4 4 4 4 5 3 4 3 4 4 3 4 5 3 4 4 4 4ZAF Goosen E E E E E −1 −1 −1 −2 −3 −3 −2 −2 −2 −2 −2 −1 EUSA Brooks E E −1 −1 −1 −1 E E +1 +2 +2 +3 +3 +3 +3 +3 +2 +2
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Source:https://www.usatoday.com/sports/golf/usopen01/playoff-scores.htm USA Today U.S. Open: Playoff scores June 18, 2001 June 14, 2012
Quotes
June 2023
"It's amazing and I don't want to consider what it would have felt like if I had lost but I played solid and my putter was warm in places – except yesterday." – Retief Goosen
"It's been a long week, it feels like a year out here." – Retief Goosen
"When I got up this morning, I was more comfortable than I was Sunday morning. I knew I had a 50 percent chance of winning." – Retief Goosen
"I got punished severely in the rough today and that was kind of the difference," – Mark Brooks after his playoff loss.
"I started hitting the ball a lot better a few weeks ago, and just the putter wasn't working. And putting a new putter in the bag last week, it just helped." – Retief Goosen
"To be honest with you I played as hard as I could, I tried on every shot, and there's no regrets." – Tiger Woods after failing to win his fifth straight major championship
"I don't think people really understand how difficult it is on you to keep putting yourself there and the stress it puts on you coming down the back nine on Sunday with a chance to win. More times than not it wears you out." – Tiger Woods
"It's certainly not the finish I would have liked, but out of playing (36) majors now, and not winning any, I'm tired of beating myself up time after time," – Phil Mickelson.
"It was really tough to dig in and concentrate on that second putt because I really didn't think it was really all that important," – Stewart Cink after missing a two-foot putt which ultimately would have put him in the playoff with Goosen and Brooks (since Goosen missed his own two-foot putt seconds later).
References
External links
https://archive.today/20130615062959/http://www.usopen.com/en_US/champ_experience/pastchamps/2001.html USOpen.com – 2001 el
Goosen Takes US Open Title – BBC Sports
Goosen wins the US Open in playoff – Golf Today
Coverage on European Tour's official site
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