8 U.S. <strong>Open</strong> Phil Mickelson, playing in only his second event following his wife Amy’s cancer diagnosis, finished second for a record fifth time. <strong>Open</strong>
U.S. <strong>Open</strong> 9 2009 <strong>Championship</strong> Notes Leaders Round 1 — Mike Weir at 6-under-par 64, by two strokes over Peter Hanson and three strokes over Ricky Barnes, David Duval and Todd Hamilton. Round 2 — Barnes at 8-under-par 132, by one stroke over Lucas Glover and two strokes over Weir. Round 3 — Barnes at 8-under-par 202, by one stroke over Glover and five strokes over Duval and Ross Fisher. Cut 60 players (three amateurs) at 4-over-par 144. Weather Mostly cloudy and breezy with heavy rain and temperatures in the mid 60s. First-round play was suspended at 10:15 a.m. because of heavy rainfall and postponed until Friday. Play resumed Friday at 7:26 a.m. Mostly cloudy with calm winds and highs in the mid 70s on Friday. Second-round play was suspended at 8:24 p.m. due to darkness. Play resumed Saturday at 7:24 a.m. Cloudy with showers and highs in the low 70s Saturday. Play suspended at 6:55 p.m. due to heavy showers. Play resumed at 11:54 a.m. Sunday. Cloudy and breezy with brief showers and highs around 70. Play suspended at 7:59 p.m. due to darkness and resumed at 9 a.m. Monday. Mostly cloudy and breezy with highs in the low 70s. Notes With his victory, Lucas Glover became the first sectional qualifier to win the U.S. <strong>Open</strong> since Michael Campbell in 2005 … Bethpage State Park played host to the U.S. <strong>Open</strong> for the second time, having previously hosted the championship in 2002 … Bethpage State Park also hosted the 1936 U.S. Amateur Public Links <strong>Championship</strong> on the Blue Course … At 7,426 yards, Bethpage State Park’s Black Course was the second-longest course in U.S. <strong>Open</strong> history and played 212 yards longer than it did in 2002 … The Black Course’s 525-yard seventh was the longest par 4 in U.S. <strong>Open</strong> history … The 508-yard 10th and 504- yard 12th also rank among the top-five longest par 4s in U.S. <strong>Open</strong> history … Three par-4 holes measuring more than 500 yards was a first for any U.S. <strong>Open</strong> … The <strong>USGA</strong> accepted a record 9,086 entries for the 2009 championship … 76 players were fully exempt into the 156-player field, including seven former U.S. <strong>Open</strong> champions, 20 former <strong>USGA</strong> champions and 17 former USA Walker Cup Team members … Brian Gay became the final player fully exempt when he won the St. Jude Classic the weekend before the U.S. <strong>Open</strong>, winning his second championship in the calendar year to become exempt … 15 amateurs made it into the field, the most since 18 played in the 1981 U.S. <strong>Open</strong> … Three of the amateurs made the cut at +4 (144) … Nick Taylor of Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada, was low amateur, tying for 36th at 8-over-par 288 … Taylor tied the low 18-hole record by an amateur, shooting 5-under-par 65 in the second round … Mike Weir’s first-round 64 and Glover’s second-round 64 were the lowest single-round scores at the U.S. <strong>Open</strong> since Vijay Singh’s 7-under-par 63 in 2003 … Ricky Barnes’ 36-hole total of 132 (67-65) through the opening two rounds was the lowest such total in U.S. <strong>Open</strong> history, besting Jim Furyk and Vijay Singh, who both posted 133 at Olympia Fields (Ill.) Country Club in 2003; Glover tied the previous mark, shooting 69-64— 133 … Barnes became only the fourth player in U.S. <strong>Open</strong> history to reach a double-digit under par score when he eagled the par-5 fourth in the third round to move to 11-under, one off the record of Tiger Woods (2000) and Gil Morgan (1992) … Fellow runner-up David Duval notched his first top-10 finish since 2002, when he tied for sixth at the Invensys Classic at Las Vegas, a streak of 116 tournaments … Three players who finished in the top 20 in 2002 also placed within that group in 2009: Woods (first in 2002, tied for sixth in 2009), Mickelson (second in 2002 and 2009 and Sergio Garcia (tied for fourth in 2002 and tied for 10th in 2009) … Woods’ tie for sixth place was the best finish by a champion trying to defend his U.S. <strong>Open</strong> crown since 1990 … The non-playoff Monday finish was only the third in U.S. <strong>Open</strong> history; the 1959 U.S. <strong>Open</strong> at Winged Foot Golf Club in Mamaroneck, N.Y., and the 1983 U.S. <strong>Open</strong> at Oakmont (Pa.) Country Club were both finished on Mondays due to inclement weather … Players who had morning tee times on Thursday averaged 74.75 strokes in the first round while those scheduled for afternoon tee times, who actually started their rounds on Friday, averaged 72.87 strokes — a difference of 1.88 strokes … The cut at 4-over-par 144 tied for the second-lowest cut in U.S. <strong>Open</strong> history. <strong>Open</strong>
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