The 2008 United States Open Championship was the 108th
U.S. Open, played June 12–16 at
Torrey Pines in
San Diego, California
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.
Tiger Woods
Eldrick Tont "Tiger" Woods (born December 30, 1975) is an American professional golfer. He is tied for first in PGA Tour wins, ranks second in men's major championships, and holds numerous golf records.
*
*
* Woods is widely regarded as ...
won his third U.S. Open and 14th
major
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title, defeating
Rocco Mediate
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on the first hole of
sudden-death, following an 18-hole With this victory, Woods joined
Jack Nicklaus
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as the only two players to win the career
grand slam
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three times. The U.S. Open was held at the Torrey Pines Golf Course for the first time, on its South Course.
It was an unlikely victory for Woods, who entered the tournament considerably short of match practice and was plagued throughout the week by an ailing left knee. Two days after the championship, Woods revealed that he would miss the remainder of the
2008
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season after undergoing knee surgery; this was his last win in a major championship until the
2019 Masters.
This was the final 18-hole playoff at the U.S. Open. A two-hole aggregate playoff was introduced by the
United States Golf Association
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(USGA)
Field
About half the field each year consists of players who are fully exempt from qualifying for the U.S. Open. Below is the list of the 72 players that were fully exempt for the 2008 U.S. Open. Each player is classified according to the first category by which he qualified, but other categories are shown in parentheses:
;1. Last 10
U.S. Open Champions
Ángel Cabrera
Ángel Cabrera (; born 12 September 1969) is an Argentine professional golfer who has played on both the European Tour and PGA Tour. He is known affectionately as ''"El Pato"'' in Spanish ''("The Duck")'' for his waddling gait. He is a two-time ...
(8,11,17),
Michael Campbell
Michael Shane Campbell (born 23 February 1969) is a New Zealand professional golfer who is best known for having won the 2005 U.S. Open and, at the time, the richest prize in golf, the £1,000,000 HSBC World Match Play Championship, in the s ...
,
Jim Furyk
James Michael Furyk (born May 12, 1970) is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour and the PGA Tour Champions. In 2010, he was the FedEx Cup champion and PGA Tour Player of the Year. He has won one major championship, the 200 ...
(8,9,17),
Retief Goosen
Retief Goosen (born 3 February 1969) is a South African professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour Champions. He has won two U.S. Opens, in 2001 and 2004, headed the European Tour Order of Merit in 2001 and 2002, and was in the top ten of th ...
(11,17),
Lee Janzen
Lee McLeod Janzen (born August 28, 1964) is an American professional golfer who is best known for winning the U.S. Open twice in 1993 and 1998. He currently plays on the PGA Tour Champions, and was an eight-time winner on the PGA Tour.
Early y ...
(8),
Geoff Ogilvy
Geoff Charles Ogilvy (born 11 June 1977) is an Australian professional golfer. He won the 2006 U.S. Open and has also won three World Golf Championships.
Professional career
Ogilvy was born in Adelaide, South Australia to an English-born fath ...
(9,12,17),
Tiger Woods
Eldrick Tont "Tiger" Woods (born December 30, 1975) is an American professional golfer. He is tied for first in PGA Tour wins, ranks second in men's major championships, and holds numerous golf records.
*
*
* Woods is widely regarded as ...
(3,4,5,8,9,10,12,13,17)
;2. Top two finishers in the 2007
U.S. Amateur
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Michael Thompson
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Colt Knost
Colt Knost (born June 26, 1985) is a retired American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour. Beginning in January 2022, he became a regular analyst and on-course commentator for PGA Tour events televised by CBS Sports.
Amateur career
K ...
forfeited his exemption by turning professional.
;3. Last five
Masters Champions
Trevor Immelman
Trevor John Immelman (born 16 December 1979) is a South African professional golfer who has played on the PGA Tour, European Tour and Sunshine Tour. He won his sole major championship at the 2008 Masters Tournament.
Early years
Immelman was bor ...
(17),
Zach Johnson
Zachary Harris Johnson (born February 24, 1976) is an American professional golfer who has 12 victories on the PGA Tour, including two major championships, the 2007 Masters and the 2015 Open Championship.
In 2023, Johnson will captain the U ...
(9,17),
Phil Mickelson
Philip Alfred Mickelson (born June 16, 1970), nicknamed Lefty, is an American professional golfer who plays for LIV Golf. He has won 45 events on the PGA Tour, including six Men's major golf championships, major championships: three Masters To ...
(5,9,12,13,17)
;4. Last five
British Open
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Champions
Ben Curtis,
Todd Hamilton
William Todd Hamilton (born October 18, 1965) is an American professional golfer. He is best known for his victory at the 2004 Open Championship.
Early life
Hamilton was born in the small west-central Illinois city of Galesburg. He grew up in ...
,
Pádraig Harrington
Pádraig Peter Harrington (born 31 August 1971) is an Irish professional golfer who plays on the European Tour, PGA Tour and the PGA Tour Champions. He has won three major championships: The Open Championship in 2007 and 2008 and the PGA Champ ...
(9,11,17)
;5. Last five
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Champions
Vijay Singh
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(9,12,17)
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Shaun Micheel
Shaun Carl Micheel (born January 5, 1969) is an American professional golfer who is best known for his surprise victory at the 2003 PGA Championship.
Career
Micheel was born in Orlando, Florida. He attended Christian Brothers High School in Me ...
withdrew prior to the tournament.''
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;6. The Players Champion
Sergio García
Sergio García Fernández (; born 9 January 1980) is a Spanish professional golfer. He has played on the European Tour, PGA Tour and LIV Golf Invitational Series. García has won 36 international tournaments as a professional, most notably th ...
(9,11,12,17)
;7. The U.S. Senior Open
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Champion
Brad Bryant
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Bryant was born in Amarillo, Texas, the son of a Southern Baptist pastor. He moved with his family to Alamogordo, New Mexico during his youth. Bryant attended the U ...
;8. Top 15 finishers and ties in the 2007 U.S. Open
Stephen Ames
Stephen Michael Ames (born April 28, 1964) is a professional golfer formerly of the PGA Tour, who now plays on the PGA Tour Champions. The biggest win of his career was at The Players Championship in 2006. He holds dual citizenship of Trinidad an ...
(17), Aaron Baddeley
Aaron John Baddeley (born 17 March 1981) is an Australian professional golfer. He was born in Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA and now plays on the U.S.-based PGA Tour, he has joint U.S. and Australian citizenship and was raised in Australia from the ...
(9,17), Paul Casey
Paul Alexander Casey (born 21 July 1977) is an English golfer who is a member of LIV Golf. He has also played on the US-based PGA Tour and the European Tour. In 2009, he achieved his highest position, third, in the Official World Golf Ranking.
...
(11,17), Nick Dougherty
Nicholas James Dougherty (born 24 May 1982) is a retired English professional golfer.
Dougherty was born in Bootle, Merseyside, and attended Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School in Blackburn, Lancashire. He is a protégé of former professional go ...
(11), Niclas Fasth
Niclas Fasth (born 29 April 1972) is a Sweden, Swedish professional golfer.
Early life
Fasth was born in Gothenburg. In 1982, when he was 10 years old, his parents bought a summer house close to Lysegården Golf Club in Kungälv, north of Gothen ...
(11,17), Jerry Kelly
Jerome Patrick Kelly (born November 23, 1966) is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour and PGA Tour Champions.
Career
Born and raised in Madison, Wisconsin, Kelly graduated from the University of Hartford in 1989 and turne ...
, Hunter Mahan
Hunter Myles Mahan (born May 17, 1982) is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. He is a winner of two World Golf Championship events, the 2010 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational and the 2012 WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship. ...
(9,17), Justin Rose
Justin Peter Rose, (born 30 July 1980) is an English professional golfer who plays most of his golf on the PGA Tour, while keeping his membership on the European Tour. He won his first major championship at the 2013 U.S. Open (golf), 2013 U.S. O ...
(9,11,17), Steve Stricker
Steven Charles Stricker (born February 23, 1967) is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour and the PGA Tour Champions. He has twelve victories on the PGA Tour, including the WGC-Match Play title in 2001 and two FedEx Cup play ...
(9,17), David Toms
David Wayne Toms (born January 4, 1967) is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour Champions. From 1992 to 2017, Toms was a member of the PGA Tour, where he won 13 events, including one major, the 2001 PGA Championshi ...
, Scott Verplank
Scott Rachal Verplank (born July 9, 1964) is an American professional golfer, who has played on the PGA Tour and the PGA Tour Champions.
Early years and amateur career
Born and raised in Dallas, Texas, Verplank was a leading member of the W.T. Wh ...
(9,17), Bubba Watson
Gerry Lester "Bubba" Watson Jr. (born November 5, 1978) is an American professional golfer. He has played predominantly on the PGA Tour, and is a multiple major champion, with victories at the Masters Tournament in 2012 and 2014. In February 201 ...
;9. Top 30 leaders on the 2007 PGA Tour
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br>official money list
Robert Allenby
Robert Allenby (born 12 July 1971) is an Australian professional golfer.
Early years
Allenby was born on 12 July 1971 in Melbourne, Victoria. His father had emigrated to Australia from Leeds, UK as a young man.
Professional career
He turned p ...
(17), Woody Austin
Albert Woody Austin II (born January 27, 1964) is an American professional golfer who played the majority of his career on the PGA Tour, but now plays on the PGA Tour Champions.
Austin was born in Tampa, Florida. He attended the University of Mi ...
(17), Mark Calcavecchia
Mark John Calcavecchia (born June 12, 1960) is an American professional golfer and a former PGA Tour member. During his professional career, he won 13 PGA Tour events, including the 1989 Open Championship. He plays on the Champions Tour as well ...
, K. J. Choi
Choi Kyung-Ju ( ko, 최경주; born 19 May 1970), commonly known as K. J. Choi, is a South Korean professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour and PGA Tour Champions. Since turning pro in 1994, he has won more than twenty p ...
(13,17), Stewart Cink
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Canada
* Stewart, British Columbia
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(12,17), Tim Clark (17), Luke Donald
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Donald had an outstanding year in 2011, winnin ...
(17), Ernie Els
Theodore Ernest Els (; born 17 October 1969) is a South African professional golfer. A former , he is known as "The Big Easy" due to his imposing physical stature (he stands ) along with his fluid golf swing. Among his more than 70 career victor ...
(11,17), Steve Flesch
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(13), Charles Howell III
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, John Rollins, Rory Sabbatini
Rory Mario Trevor Sabbatini (born 2 April 1976) is a South African-Slovak professional golfer. Sabbatini won six times on the PGA Tour between 2000 and 2011 and was runner-up in the 2007 Masters. He spent 21 weeks in the world top-10 in late-2 ...
(17), Adam Scott (17), Heath Slocum
Tyler Heath Slocum (born February 3, 1974) is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour.
Early years
Slocum was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He attended St. Anthony of Padua Catholic School in Bunkie, Louisiana from ...
, Brandt Snedeker
Brandt Newell Snedeker (born December 8, 1980) is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. He won the 2012 FedEx Cup with a victory in the season-ending Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club. After this victory, he moved into ...
(17), Boo Weekley
Thomas Brent "Boo" Weekley (born July 23, 1973) is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour.
Overview
Born in Milton, Florida, Weekley turned professional in 1997 and played on mini-tours until 2002, when he qualified for the ...
(12,17)
*''Brett Wetterich
Brett Milton Wetterich (born August 9, 1973) is an American professional golfer.
Wetterich was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He attended Oak Hills High School and Wallace State Community College. He turned professional in 1994.
Wetterich was a PGA T ...
withdrew prior to the tournament.''
;10. All players qualifying for the 2007 edition of The Tour Championship
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Jonathan Byrd, Camilo Villegas
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Early years
Villegas was born in Medellín, Colombia, and took up golf as a child. After several different National Junior Championships in Co ...
;11. Top 15 on the 2007 European Tour
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br>Order of Merit
Søren Hansen
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Hansen was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. He won the 1997 Danish Amateur Stroke Play Championship and turned professional later that year.
Hansen collected his first profession ...
(17), Colin Montgomerie
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, Andrés Romero
Andrés Fabián Romero (born 8 May 1981) is an Argentine professional golfer who plays on both the PGA Tour and European Tour.
Career
Romero was born in Tucumán. He won his European Tour card by finishing 14th on the Challenge Tour rankings i ...
(17), Henrik Stenson
Henrik Olof Stenson (; born 5 April 1976) is a Swedish professional golfer.
He is the first male Swedish and first male Nordic major champion, having won the 2016 Open Championship at Royal Troon with a major championship record score of 264. ...
(17), Richard Sterne (17), Lee Westwood
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(17)
;12. Top 10 on the PGA Tour
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official money list, as of May 26
Ryuji Imada
is a U.S.-based Japanese professional golfer.
Imada was born in Mihara, Hiroshima, Japan. He came to the United States when he was 14 to attend a Tampa golf academy for Asian players. His instructor was (and still is) Richard Abele, who became ...
, Anthony Kim
Anthony Ha-Jin Kim (born June 19, 1985) is an American professional golfer with three PGA Tour wins, who played in one Ryder Cup competition, and one Presidents Cup competition. He has not played in a PGA Tour event since an injury in 2012. He ...
(17), Jeff Quinney
Jeffrey Michael Quinney (born November 17, 1978) is an American professional golfer.
Early life
Quinney was born in Eugene, Oregon.
Amateur career
Quinney had a successful amateur career, winning the U.S. Amateur in 2000, and represented ...
(17)
;13. Winners of multiple PGA Tour events from April 25, 2007 through June 1, 2008
Daniel Chopra
Daniel Samir Chopra (born 23 December 1973) is a Swedish professional golfer.
Chopra was born in Stockholm, Sweden. He represents Sweden and his mother was Swedish, but his father was Indian and Daniel moved to India at age seven where he was r ...
;14. Top 2 from the 2008 European Tour
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Order of Merit, as of May 26
Miguel Ángel Jiménez
Miguel Ángel Jiménez Rodríguez (born 5 January 1964) is a Spanish professional golfer. He has won 21 times on the European Tour and has been a member of two victorious Ryder Cup teams.
Early years
Born in Málaga in southern Spain, Jiménez ...
(17), Oliver Wilson
Oliver John Wilson (born 14 September 1980) is an English professional golfer. Wilson was a member of the 2008 Ryder Cup, but had to wait another six years for his first European Tour win, the 2014 Alfred Dunhill Links Championship.
Amateur c ...
(17)
;15. Top 2 on the 2007 Japan Golf Tour
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br>official money list
provided they are within the top 75 point leaders of the Official World Golf Rankings
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at that time
Shingo Katayama
Shingo Katayama ( ja, 片山 晋呉, born 31 January 1973) is a Japanese golfer.
Early life and professional career
Katayama was born in Chikusei, Ibaraki Prefecture. He turned professional in 1995 and has played full-time on the Japan Golf To ...
(17), Toru Taniguchi
is a Japanese professional golfer born in Nara.
Career
Taniguchi has won 20 tournaments on the Japan Golf Tour, ranking 10th on the most career victories list; topped the annual earnings list in 2002 and 2007; and is fourth on the career ear ...
(17)
;16. Top 2 on the 2007 PGA Tour of Australasia
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br>official money list
provided they are within the top 75 point leaders of the Official World Golf Rankings
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The rankings are based on a player's position in individual tournaments (i.e. not pairs or team events) over a "rolli ...
at that time
*''Craig Parry
Craig David Parry (born 12 January 1966) is an Australian professional golfer. He has been one of Australia's premier golfers since turning professional in 1985, and has 23 career victories, two of those wins being events on the PGA Tour; the 2 ...
and David Smail were not ranked in the top 75.''
;17. Top 50 on the Official World Golf Rankings
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The rankings are based on a player's position in individual tournaments (i.e. not pairs or team events) over a "rolli ...
list, as of May 26
Stuart Appleby
Stuart Appleby (born 1 May 1971) is an Australian professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour Champions. He was a nine-time winner on the PGA Tour.
Early life
Appleby was born in Cohuna, Victoria, and grew up on a nearby dairy farm. He began ...
, J. B. Holmes
John Bradley "J.B." Holmes (born April 26, 1982) is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour.
Early life
Holmes, born in Campbellsville, Kentucky, began to play on the varsity golf team at Taylor County High School in Campbel ...
, Robert Karlsson
Robert Karlsson (born 3 September 1969) is a Swedish professional golfer who has played on the European Tour and the PGA Tour, and now plays on the PGA Tour Champions.
Early life
Karlsson was born in Katrineholm, Sweden where his father Björn ...
, Martin Kaymer
Martin Kaymer ( ; born 28 December 1984) is a German professional golfer. A winner of two major championships, he was also the No. 1 ranked golfer in the Official World Golf Ranking for eight weeks in 2011.
Kaymer achieved his first major vict ...
, Justin Leonard
Justin Charles Garrett Leonard (born June 15, 1972) is an American professional golfer. He has twelve career wins on the PGA Tour, including one major, the 1997 Open Championship.
Early years
Born and raised in Dallas, Texas, Leonard graduated ...
, Rod Pampling
Rodney Pampling (born 23 September 1969) is an Australian professional golfer. He currently plays on the PGA Tour Champions, and was a three-time winner on the PGA Tour.
Golf career
Pampling was born in Redcliffe, Queensland. He turned professi ...
, Ian Poulter
Ian James Poulter (born 10 January 1976) is an English professional golfer who plays in the LIV Golf League. He has previously been ranked as high as number 5 in the world rankings. The highlights of Poulter's career to date have been his two W ...
, Mike Weir
Michael Richard Weir, (born May 12, 1970) is a Canadian professional golfer. He currently plays on the PGA Tour Champions. He spent over 110 weeks in the top-10 of the Official World Golf Ranking between 2001 and 2005. He plays golf left-handed ...
*''Sean O'Hair
Sean M. O'Hair (born July 11, 1982) is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour.
Early life
O'Hair was born in Lubbock, Texas. Rather than play college golf, O'Hair turned professional in 1999 after his junior year at high sc ...
withdrew prior to the tournament.''
;18. Special exemptions selected by the USGA
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''None''
;Sectional qualifiers
*Japan: Artemio Murakami
Artemio Murakami (born 22 July 1983) is a Filipino professional golfer.
Murakami turned professional in 2005 and joined the Asian Tour in 2007. In his debut season he won his first tournament at the Iskandar Johor Open, and in 2008 he recorded ...
, Craig Parry
Craig David Parry (born 12 January 1966) is an Australian professional golfer. He has been one of Australia's premier golfers since turning professional in 1985, and has 23 career victories, two of those wins being events on the PGA Tour; the 2 ...
*England: Phillip Archer
Phillip Neil Archer (born 17 March 1972) is an English professional golfer.
Career
Archer was born in Warrington. He is best known for shooting a score of 60 in the first round at the Celtic Manor Wales Open in 2006. He had a chance of being the ...
, Robert Dinwiddie
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, Johan Edfors
Johan Edfors (born 10 October 1975) is a Swedish professional golfer who plays primarily on the European Tour.
Early life and amateur career
Edfors was born in Varberg. He attended the University of Texas at San Antonio on a Division I athletic ...
, Ross Fisher
Ross Daniel Fisher (born 22 November 1980) is an English professional golfer who plays on the European Tour, where he has won five times, including the 2009 Volvo World Match Play Championship at Finca Cortesin Golf Club in Spain.
Early life
F ...
, Alastair Forsyth
Alastair Forsyth (born 5 February 1976) is a Scottish professional golfer.
Amateur career
Forsyth was born in Glasgow, Scotland and grew up supporting Rangers. He was a member of a winning Great Britain & Ireland Jacques Léglise Trophy team ...
, Thomas Levet
Thomas Jean Roger Levet (born 5 September 1968) is a French professional golfer who is a member of the European Tour and former member of the PGA Tour.
Career
Levet was born in Paris, France. He turned professional in 1988 and won the French PG ...
, Ross McGowan
Ross Ian Thomas McGowan (born 23 April 1982) is an English professional golfer. He has won twice on the European Tour, the 2009 Madrid Masters and the 2020 Italian Open.
Early life and amateur career
McGowan was born in Basildon, Essex, and ...
*United States
:*Daly City, California: Michael Allen, Craig Barlow
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Barlow was born in Henderson, Nevada. He turned professional in 1995. He played on the PGA Tour and Nationwide Tour from 1998 to 2011.
Barlow is a cousin of Brandon Flowe ...
, Garrett Chaussard (L), Jordan Cox (a,L), John Ellis (L), Jason Gore
Jason William Gore (born May 17, 1974) is an American professional golfer.
Amateur career
Gore was born in Van Nuys, California. He grew up playing junior golf with Tiger Woods.
Gore attended the University of Arizona, then transferred to Pepper ...
, Jeff Wilson (a,L)
:*Littleton, Colorado: Jay Choi
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Choi was born in Gunsan, South Korea. He graduated from Gahr High School in Cerritos, California and played college golf at the University of New Mexico.
Choi played the min ...
(L), Brian Kortan (L)
:*Tequesta, Florida: Bobby Collins (L), Philippe Gasnier (L), Joey Lamielle (L)
:*Roswell, Georgia: Jason Bohn
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Amateur career
Bohn was born in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. In 1992, while a sophomore on the Alabama gol ...
, Matt Kuchar
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Kuchar briefly enjoyed success in the early 2000s before sufferin ...
, D. J. Trahan
Donald Roland "D.J." Trahan, Jr. (born December 18, 1980) is an American professional golfer.
Early life
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:*Lake Forest, Illinois: Hunter Haas
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(L), Chris Kirk
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(L), Ian Leggatt
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Leggatt has won one PGA Tour event and one Nation ...
(L), Mark O'Meara
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, D. A. Points
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(L), Jon Turcott (L)
:*Beallsville, Maryland: Brian Bergstol (L), David Hearn (L)
:*Augusta, Missouri: Robert Gaus (L)
:*Purchase, New York: Yohann Benson (L), Jeffrey Bors (L), Michael Gilmore (L), Kevin Silva
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:*Columbus, Ohio: Eric Axley
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, Bart Bryant
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, Chad Campbell
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, Ben Crane
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, Derek Fathauer
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(a,L), Robert Garrigus
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, Justin Hicks (L), Freddie Jacobson
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, Dustin Johnson
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, Davis Love III
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, Jarrod Lyle
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, John Mallinger
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, Steve Marino
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, Rocco Mediate
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, Jon Mills
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, Joe Ogilvie
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, Jesper Parnevik
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, Pat Perez
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, Carl Pettersson
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, Kyle Stanley
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, Dean Wilson
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:*Springfield, Ohio: Chris Devlin (L), Andrew Dresser (L), Sean English (L), Fernando Figueroa
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(L), Jimmy Henderson (a,L), Peter Tomasulo
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(L)
:*Creswell, Oregon: Rob Rashell (L), Nick Taylor (a)
:*Cordova, Tennessee: Travis Bertoni (L), D. J. Brigman, Mathew Goggin
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, Brandt Jobe
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, Michael Letzig, John Merrick, Scott Piercy
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(L), Michael Quagliano (a,L), Brett Quigley, Patrick Sheehan, Scott Sterling, Kevin Streelman
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(L), Chris Stroud
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...
(L), Casey Wittenberg
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(L)
:*Richmond, Texas: Rich Beem
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, Charlie Beljan
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(L)
;Alternates who gained entry
*Rickie Fowler
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(a, Columbus) – replaced Shaun Micheel
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*Gary Wolstenholme
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(a, England) – replaced Sean O'Hair
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* Andrew Svoboda (L, Purchase) – replaced Brett Wetterich
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Round summaries
The U.S. Open is played over four days with an 18-hole round being played each day, for a total of 72 holes plus practice rounds. Players outside the top 60 and ties and outside ten strokes of the leader will be "cut" after 36 holes.
First round
''Thursday, June 12, 2008''
The leaders after the first round were two little-known American
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players, Justin Hicks, a 33-year-old Nationwide Tour
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player, and Kevin Streelman
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, a 29-year-old PGA Tour
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rookie. They both shot 3 under-par 68s to lead four other players at 69 (−2), including the 2006 champion, Geoff Ogilvy
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. The top three ranked
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players in the world were paired together for the first two rounds, but none of them broke par for the day: Woods 72 (+1), Phil Mickelson
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71 (E), Adam Scott 73 (+2). Woods was playing his first event since the Masters, after undergoing arthroscopic
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knee surgery, and Scott was playing with a broken little finger on his right hand. The World Golf Rankings were also used for three other pairings, making four pairings include the top 12 golfers in the world. Defending champion Ángel Cabrera
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shot 79 (+8). Mark Calcavecchia
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withdrew after playing nine holes with an injured knee and foot. In all, 11 players shot sub-par rounds and the scoring average was 75.58.[
]
Second round
''Friday, June 13, 2008''
The first round co-leaders both fell well down the leaderboard: Justin Hicks shot an 80 (+9) to drop to a tie for 49th and Kevin Streelman
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shot 77 (+6) to drop to tied for 22nd. Stuart Appleby
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carded a 70 (−1) to take the lead at 139 (−3), one stroke ahead of Robert Karlsson
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, Mediate, and Woods. Woods shot a 30 on the front nine, one stroke more than the U.S. Open record for nine holes set by Vijay Singh
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in 2003
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. Singh made his 14th consecutive cut at the U.S. Open, the longest current streak. Miguel Ángel Jiménez
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shot the low round of the day −5 (66) and moved into a tie for 5th.
The cut was at +7 (149), 10 strokes from the leader, and 80 players made the cut. Defending champion Cabrera shot a 76 (+5) for at total of 155 (+13) to miss the cut by six shots. Ian Poulter
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withdrew with a wrist injury after playing 15 holes. Three amateurs made the cut: Derek Fathauer
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Fathauer was born in Stuart, Florida. He attended Martin County High School in Stuart, Florida. He and his twin brot ...
(+4), Michael Thompson (+5), and Rickie Fowler
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(+7).
In all, 19 players shot sub-par second rounds. The scoring average was 74.96 for round two and 75.27 overall.[
Amateurs: '' Fathauer (+4), ]Thompson
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(+5), Fowler (+7)'', Stanley
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(+8), Taylor
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(+10), Tway (+11), Cox (+15), Wilson (+17), Henderson (+21), Wolstenholme (+23), Quagliano (+25).
Third round
''Saturday, June 14, 2008''
Overnight leader Stuart Appleby shot 79 (+8) to slip back to T-19 at 218 (+5), while playing partner Rocco Mediate
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shot 72 (+1) to finish two strokes behind at 212 (−1). Many of the leaders struggled on day three. Karlsson and Jiménez dropped back to 215 (+2), Davis Love III
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to 4 over-par and D. J. Trahan
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to 1 over-par. Lee Westwood
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finished at 211 (−2) after a round of 70, the only one to shoot par or better in all three rounds. Woods, despite struggling with his knee injury, dazzled on the back nine with some improbable shots, resulting in two eagles and a chip-in birdie from the rough on the 17th to take the 54-hole lead at 210 (−3), a stroke ahead of Westwood. Brandt Snedeker
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shot the low round of the day at 68 (-3). In total, 11 players shot sub-par rounds and the scoring average for the round was 74.36 and 75.08 overall.[
]
Final round
''Sunday, June 15, 2008''
Woods had previously won each of the thirteen major championships in which he entered the final round with at least a share of the lead, and his fourteenth was no different. He lost his lead on the first hole, double-bogeying the hole for the third time in the tournament, and followed that with a bogey on the second, but regained two of the shots with birdies on 9 and 11. He also bogeyed 13, the same hole on which he had sunk an eagle putt the previous day.
Mediate had put together a solid round, only scoring one bogey over the final 13 holes. However, he barely missed a birdie putt on 17 and hit a wedge too strong on 18; his pars on the two final holes kept both Woods and his playing partner Westwood in contention. Both came to the par-5 final hole one shot behind Mediate, who was in the clubhouse at 283 (−1).
Woods and Westwood both hit their drives into bunkers and had to lay up. Woods' second shot went into the rough; Westwood laid up in the fairway. Both reached the green with their third shots, leaving them with birdie putts to force an 18-hole playoff with Mediate. Westwood's putt, which had a severe break to the right, was not successful. Woods' putt was closer at , with a much less severe break; his putt lipped the hole before dropping and putting him in the playoff. Both Woods and Mediate became the first to finish under par at the U.S. Open since 2004
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.
Heath Slocum
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shot the low round of the day (and the tournament) at 65 (−6). In total, 12 players shot sub-par rounds and the scoring average for the round was 72.87 and 74.71 overall.[
Amateurs: Thompson (+8), Fowler (+13), Fathauer (+15).
]
Scorecard
''Final round''
''Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par''
:
Source:
Playoff
''Monday, June 16, 2008''
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. After trading the lead three times on the front nine, Woods built a three stroke lead through ten holes. Mediate rallied on the back nine with three consecutive birdies which gave him a one stroke lead heading to the 18th hole. Like the day before, Woods birdied to tie Mediate and forced the playoff into sudden-death, the third in U.S. Open history (1990
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, 1994
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: previously, extra full rounds were played, last in 1946
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).
The sudden-death playoff started and ended at the par-4 7th hole;[Tiger puts away Mediate on 91st hole to win U.S. Open](_blank)
/ref> Woods left his birdie putt inches short and tapped in, while Mediate's tee shot found the left fairway bunker and his putt to save par missed right.
The playoff started at noon Eastern on ESPN
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, with NBC
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taking over at 2 p.m. Eastern and showing the final ten holes; ESPN's two hours earned the highest ever ratings for golf coverage on cable at the time, while NBC had the highest-rated Monday golf broadcast since 1978.
With the win, Woods kept his unbeaten streak alive when he has at least a share of the lead heading into the final round of a major championship (14−0). The streak ended at the PGA Championship
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in 2009
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.
Scorecard
:
Woods' injury
Two months earlier on April 15, Woods had arthroscopic surgery
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on his left knee.Tiger Woods Has Arthroscopic Surgery, Will Miss A Month
/ref> During his rehab, Woods sustained a double stress fracture
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of his left tibia
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. Throughout the tournament it was clear Woods was in pain, and the general feeling was that he was just returning from the initial surgery too soon. He did not reveal the news about the fracture until Wednesday, two days after the Monday He had surgery to repair his anterior cruciate ligament
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(ACL) and needed time to rehab that and the stress fracture, and announced on his website that he would miss the remainder of the 2008
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season.
References
External links
2008 U.S. Open official site
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