The term U.S. Open or US Open is applied to "open"
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territorie ...
-hosted championships in a particular sport (or non-sport organized competitive gaming activity), in which anyone, amateur or professional, American or non-American, and generally, male or female, may compete.
The term most commonly refers to:
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U.S. Open (golf)
The United States Open Championship, commonly known as the U.S. Open, is the annual open national championship of golf in the United States. It is the third of the four major championships in golf, and is on the official schedule of both the PGA ...
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US Open (tennis)
The US Open Tennis Championships is a hardcourt tennis tournament held annually in Queens, New York. Since 1987, the US Open has been chronologically the fourth and final Grand Slam tournament of the year. The other three, in chronological ord ...
Other uses include (in alphabetical order by sport/game):
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U.S. Open Badminton Championships
The U.S. Open Badminton Championships is an annual badminton tournament first held in when the American Badminton Association (now USA Badminton) opened the U.S. National Badminton Championships to foreign competition. During the 1950s and 1960s ...
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U.S. Open Beer Championship
The U.S. Open Beer Championship is an international brewing competition. The event, which is open to professional breweries and award-winning home brewers, is held in late June, with the winners announced in July.
Over 130 styles of beer are judg ...
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U.S. Open (bowling)
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U.S. Open Chess Championship The U.S. Open Championship is an open national chess championship that has been held in the United States annually since .
History
The tournament was originally the championship of the Western Chess Association, and was called the Western Open. I ...
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U.S. Open (crosswords)
The United States Open was a crossword puzzle-solving tournament that lasted from to . Sponsored by Games Magazine and directed by Will Shortz, it attracted thousands of potential competitors and was, along with the American Crossword Puzzle Tourn ...
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US Open of Curling
The Curve US Open of Curling is an annual bonspiel, or curling tournament, held at the Four Seasons Curling Club in Blaine, Minnesota. It was held as part of the men's World Curling Tour from 2014 to 2019 and as part of the women's WCT from 201 ...
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U.S. Open (cycling) The inaugural U. S. Open Cycling Championships is a road bicycle racing event that was held April 7, 2007 and ran from Williamsburg to Richmond, Virginia. The race was broadcast nationally in the United States on NBC Sports from 2:30 to 5:00 p.m. E ...
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US Open (darts)
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U.S. Open (go)
The U.S. Go Congress is the largest annual Go event in the United States, first held in 1985 and now into its 35th consecutive year. It is organized by the American Go Association in conjunction with one or more local clubs, and is a week-long tou ...
, boardgame tournament
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U.S. Women's Open
The U.S. Women's Open, one of 15 national golf championships conducted by the United States Golf Association (USGA), is the oldest of the LPGA Tour's five major championships, which includes the Chevron Championship, Women's PGA Championship, W ...
, golf tournament
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US Open Polo Championship
The US Open Polo Championship is an annual polo championship in the United States. It is organized since 1904 by the United States Polo Association (USPA).
History
The tournament was first played on September 20, 1904 at Van Cortlandt Park in T ...
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U.S. Open pool championships including:
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U.S. Open Straight Pool Championship The U.S. Open Straight Pool Championship was a pool
Pool may refer to:
Water pool
* Swimming pool, usually an artificial structure containing a large body of water intended for swimming
* Reflecting pool, a shallow pool designed to reflect a str ...
** U.S. Open Bank Pool Championship
** U.S. Open Eight-ball Championship
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U.S. Open Nine-ball Championship
The U.S. Open 9-Ball Championship is an annual professional men's nine-ball pool tournament that began in its current form in 1976. The U.S. Open is one of the most sought-after titles in nine-ball and in pool generally. Traditionally, winners of t ...
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U.S. Open Ten-ball Championship
Ten-ball is a rotation pool (cue sports), pool game similar to nine-ball, but using ten balls instead of nine, and with the 10 ball instead of the 9 as the ""
Although the game has existed for since the early 1960s, its popularity has risen sinc ...
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US Open Racquetball Championships
* U.S. Open
Rubik's Cube
The Rubik's Cube is a Three-dimensional space, 3-D combination puzzle originally invented in 1974 by Hungarians, Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Ernő Rubik. Originally called the Magic Cube, the puzzle was licensed by Rubik t ...
Championship
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U.S. Open Cup
The Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup, commonly known as the U.S. Open Cup (USOC), is a Single-elimination tournament, knockout cup competition in men's Soccer in the United States, soccer in the United States of America. It is the oldest ongoing nati ...
, soccer tournament held between American soccer clubs from Major League Soccer, minor leagues, and amateur associations
* U.S. Open Snowboarding
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U.S. Open (squash)
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U.S. Open (swimming) The U.S. Open Swimming Championships, or ''U.S. Open'', is a championship meet organized by USA Swimming which is open to international teams/swimmers. It was first held in 1985, and was held annually in December through 2006.U.S. Open of Surfing
The U.S. Open of Surfing is a week-long surfing competition held annually during the summer in Huntington Beach, California. Generally held on the south side of the Huntington Beach Pier, the U.S. Open is part of the qualification process for the ...
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U.S. Open (table tennis) The annual U.S. Open is the oldest currently running table tennis tournament in the United States. It attracts over 600 athletes annually. The first events were actually run by either the New York Table Tennis Club or the American Ping Pong Associa ...
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U.S. Open Track and Field U.S. Open Track and Field was the name of the first top level indoor track and field meet in 2012. The U.S. Open was the opening competition in the 2012 IAAF Indoor Permit Meeting series and was also part of the Visa Championship Series. Held in ...
* U.S. Open (USACO),
United States of America Computing Olympiad-proctored programming competition
* U.S. Open (wrestling)
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