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2022 U.S. Open (golf)

The 2022 United States Open Championship was the 122nd U.S. Open, the national open golf championship of the United States. It was a 72-hole stroke play tournament that was played between June 16–19 at The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts, a suburb west of Boston. It was the club's fourth U.S. Open, having been held there in 1913, 1963, and 1988.

2022 U.S. Open
Tournament information
DatesJune 16–19, 2022
LocationBrookline, Massachusetts
42°19′N 71°9′W / 42.317°N 71.150°W / 42.317; -71.150
Course(s)The Country Club
Organized byUSGA
Tour(s)PGA Tour
European Tour
Japan Golf Tour
Statistics
Par70
Length7,264 yards (6,642 m)
Field156 players, 64 after cut
Cut143 (+3)
Prize fund$17,500,000
Winner's share$3,150,000
Champion
England Matt Fitzpatrick
274 (−6)
Location map
The Country Club is located in the United States
The Country Club
The Country Club
Location in the United States
The Country Club is located in Massachusetts
The Country Club
The Country Club
Location in Massachusetts
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Matt Fitzpatrick won his first major championship, finishing the tournament with a score of 274, six-under-par, a shot ahead of Scottie Scheffler and Will Zalatoris. The win was also Fitzpatrick's first on the PGA Tour. He had previously won the U.S. Amateur at The Country Club, in 2013, and matched Jack Nicklaus, who won both at Pebble Beach, as the only players to win the U.S. Amateur and U.S. Open on the same course.[1] Zalatoris, who lost in a playoff a month earlier at the PGA Championship, had a 14-foot birdie putt on the 18th green that would have forced a playoff but missed, and had his second consecutive runner-up finish in a major championship.[2]

Course

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Main article: The Country Club

Composite Course

Hole Name Yards Par    Hole Name Yards Par
1 Polo Field 488 4 10 Himalayas 499 4
2 Cottage 215 3 11 Redan 131 3
3 Pond 499 4 12 Stockton 473 4
4 Newton 493 4 13 Primrose 1&2[3] 450 4
5 Bakers 310 4 14 Primrose 8 619 5
6 Plateau 192 3 15 Liverpool 510 4
7 Corner 375 4 16 Clyde 202 3
8 Quarry 557 5 17 Elbow 373 4
9 Primrose 9 427 4 18 Home 451 4
Out 3,556 35 In 3,708 35
Total 7,264 70

Sources:[4][5]

Yardage by round

Round Hole 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Out 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 In Total
Par 4 3 4 4 4 3 4 5 4 35 4 3 4 4 5 4 3 4 4 35 70
1st Yards 490 208 490 482 315 196 368 548 432 3,529 500 122 468 467 624 516 201 381 444 3,723 7,252
2nd Yards 496 217 496 490 305 165 380 547 421 3,517 504 136 476 440 616 500 191 364 449 3,676 7,193
3rd Yards 498 217 488 485 314 197 364 560 420 3,543 502 141 467 433 622 503 175 379 445 3,667 7,210
Final Yards 484 221 500 488 301 158 385 561 422 3,520 503 108 471 438 625 527 209 362 444 3,687 7,207

Field

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The field for the U.S. Open is made up of players who gain entry through qualifying events and those who are exempt from qualifying. The exemption criteria include provision for recent major champions, winners of major amateur events, and leading players in the world rankings. Qualifying is in two stages, local and final, with some players being exempted through to final qualifying.[6]

As with all editions of the U.S. Open, eligibility to play is under the sole jurisdiction of the United States Golf Association to the exclusion of the PGA Tour, Professional Golfers' Association of America or any other organization. In early June 2022, several exempt players resigned or were suspended from the PGA Tour in order to compete in the LIV Golf Invitational Series, which held its inaugural event in England one week prior to the U.S. Open. The USGA subsequently confirmed that those players would remain eligible to play in the U.S. Open.[7]

Exemptions

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This list details the exemption criteria for the 2022 U.S. Open and the players who qualified under them. Players are listed under the first criterion by which they qualified; any additional criteria under which a player was exempt are indicated in parentheses.[8][a]

1. Recent winners of the U.S. Open (2012–2021)

2. The leading ten players, and those tying for tenth place, in the 2021 U.S. Open

3. The winner of the 2021 U.S. Senior Open

4. The winner of the 2021 U.S. Amateur

5. Winners of the 2021 U.S. Junior Amateur and U.S. Mid-Amateur, and the runner-up in the 2021 U.S. Amateur[d]

6. Recent winners of the Masters Tournament (2018–2022)

7. Recent winners of the PGA Championship (2017–2022)

8. Recent winners of The Open Championship (2017–2021)

9. Recent winners of The Players Championship (2021–2022)

10. The winner of the 2021 BMW PGA Championship

11. All players who qualified for the 2021 Tour Championship

12. Winners of multiple PGA Tour events[f] from the 2021 U.S. Open to the start of the 2022 tournament

13. The winner of the 2021 Amateur Championship[d]

14. The winner of the Mark H. McCormack Medal in 2021[d]

15. The winner of the 2020 Olympic Gold Medal

16. The leading 10 points winners from the "European Qualifying Series"[g] who are not otherwise exempt

17. The leading player from each of the 2020–21–22 Asian Tour, 2021–22 PGA Tour of Australasia and 2021–22 Sunshine Tour Orders of Merit

18. The leading 60 players on the Official World Golf Ranking as of May 23, 2022

19. The leading 60 players on the Official World Golf Ranking if not otherwise exempt as of June 6, 2022

20. Special exemptions

Qualifiers

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Eleven final qualifying events were held, nine of which were in the United States:[6]

Date Location Venue Field Spots Qualifiers[a][h]
May 23 Yokoshibahikari, Chiba, Japan Caledonian Golf Club 28 3 Daijiro Izumida, Todd Sinnott, Tomoyasu Sugiyama
May 23 Dallas, Texas Lakewood Country Club and Royal Oaks Country Club 98 13 Sean Crocker, Rikuya Hoshino, Mackenzie Hughes, Kurt Kitayama, Jinichiro Kozuma, Matthew NeSmith, Andrew Novak, Davis Shore (L), Ben Silverman, Roger Sloan, Scott Stallings, Nick Taylor, Travis Vick (a)
Jun 6 Milton, Ontario, Canada RattleSnake Point Golf Club 25 3 Jonas Blixt, Satoshi Kodaira, Callum Tarren
Jun 6 San Francisco, California The Olympic Club 88 5 Luke Gannon (L), Taylor Montgomery, William Mouw (a), Jesse Mueller, Charlie Reiter (a,L)
Jun 6 Jupiter, Florida The Club at Admiral's Cove 70 4 Fred Biondi (a), Ryan Gerard (L), Keith Greene (L), Sean Jacklin (L)
Jun 6 Roswell, Georgia Ansley Golf Club 68 4 Erik Barnes, Harry Hall, Matt McCarty (L), Chase Seiffert
Jun 6 Rockville, Maryland Woodmont Country Club 73 4 Andrew Beckler (L), Joseph Bramlett, Kevin Chappell, Grayson Murray
Jun 6 Purchase, New York Century Country Club and Old Oaks Country Club 92 5 Chris Gotterup (L), Caleb Manuel (a,L), Brandon Matthews, Fran Quinn (L), Michael Thorbjornsen (a)
Jun 6 Columbus, Ohio Kinsale Golf and Fitness Club and Wedgewood Golf and Country Club 106 13 Sam Bennett (a), Hayden Buckley, Wyndham Clark, Joel Dahmen, Lanto Griffin, Chan Kim, Danny Lee, Denny McCarthy, Chris Naegel (L), Andrew Putnam, Davis Riley, Patrick Rodgers, Adam Schenk
Jun 6 Springfield, Ohio Springfield Country Club 77 8 M. J. Daffue, Adrien Dumont de Chassart (a), Bo Hoag, Beau Hossler, Troy Merritt, Maxwell Moldovan (a), Sam Stevens (L), Brian Stuard
Jun 6 Bend, Oregon Pronghorn Resort 65 3 Brady Calkins (L), Ben Lorenz (a,L), Isaiah Salinda (L)

Alternates who gained entry

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The following players gained a place in the field having finished as the leading alternates in the specified final qualifying events:

Round summaries

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First round

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Thursday, June 16, 2022

Adam Hadwin led after the opening day, after a four-under-par round of 66, which included six birdies. Five players were a stroke behind after rounds of 67.[13] A total of 25 players scored under the par of 70 and a further 16 scored level par, so that 41 players were within four strokes of the leader.[14]

Place Player Score To par
1   Adam Hadwin 66 −4
T2   M. J. Daffue 67 −3
  Joel Dahmen
  David Lingmerth
  Rory McIlroy
  Callum Tarren
T7   Hayden Buckley 68 −2
  Matt Fitzpatrick
  Brian Harman
  Dustin Johnson
  Matthew NeSmith
  Justin Rose
  Aaron Wise

Source:[15]

Second round

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Friday, June 17, 2022

Joel Dahmen and Collin Morikawa led after the second round with scores of 135, 5-under-par. Morikawa's 66 was the best round of the day. Defending champion Jon Rahm was in a group of five players a stroke behind, while world number one Scottie Scheffler was in another group of five a further shot behind. Overnight leader Adam Hadwin had a 72 to be three strokes behind the leaders. 64 players made the cut, which came at 143, 3-over-par.[16]

Place Player Score To par
T1   Joel Dahmen 67-68=135 −5
  Collin Morikawa 69-66=135
T3   Hayden Buckley 68-68=136 −4
  Beau Hossler 69-67=136
  Rory McIlroy 67-69=136
  Jon Rahm 69-67=136
  Aaron Wise 68-68=136
T8   Nick Hardy 69-68=137 −3
  Brian Harman 68-69=137
  Matthew NeSmith 68-69=137
  Patrick Rodgers 69-68=137
  Scottie Scheffler 70-67=137

Source:[15]

Third round

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Saturday, June 18, 2022

Matt Fitzpatrick and Will Zalatoris led after the third round with scores of 206, 4 under par. Zalatoris's 67 was the best round of the day. Jon Rahm was in third place, a stroke behind, with Scottie Scheffler in a group of three a further shot behind. The overnight leaders, Joel Dahmen and Collin Morikawa, dropped down the leaderboard with Dahmen scoring 74 and Morikawa 77.[17]

Place Player Score To par
T1   Matt Fitzpatrick 68-70-68=206 −4
  Will Zalatoris 69-70-67=206
3   Jon Rahm 69-67-71=207 −3
T4   Keegan Bradley 70-69-69=208 −2
  Adam Hadwin 66-72-70=208
  Scottie Scheffler 70-67-71=208
T7   Sam Burns 71-67-71=209 −1
  Joel Dahmen 67-68-74=209
  Rory McIlroy 67-69-73=209
10   Nick Hardy 69-68-73=210 E

Source:[15]

Final round

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Sunday, June 19, 2022

Summary

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Beginning the round tied for the lead with Will Zalatoris, Matt Fitzpatrick went two-under-par on his front-nine to take a one-shot advantage into the final nine holes at six-under-par. He then bogeyed the 10th hole and three-putted the 11th for another bogey, to fall back to four-under and two strokes behind the leaders. Fitzpatrick holed a 48-foot birdie putt at the 13th hole, to draw level with Zalatoris and retook sole possession of the lead with a 19-foot putt at the 15th.[18]

Zalatoris bogeyed two of his first three holes and was as many as four shots behind the leaders. He then made three birdies in four holes from the 6th hole to the 9th and took the lead with an 18-foot birdie putt at the 11th hole. He bogeyed the 12th and the 15th, after failing to get up-and-down from a greenside bunker, and fell back to four-under-par, before hitting his tee shot on the par-three 16th hole to six feet and making the putt to get within one of Fitzpatick.[19]

Zalatoris had a 12-foot putt for birdie on the 17th hole to draw level with Fitzpatrick, but missed the putt. With a one-shot lead playing the 18th, Fitzpatrick drove into a fairway bunker and played his second shot 18 feet past the hole. He two-putted for par and a round of 68, two-under-par, to finish at six-under for the tournament. Zalatoris, on a nearly identical line to Fitzpatrick, had a 14-foot putt for birdie that would have forced a playoff but it narrowly slid past the left side of the hole. He finished at five-under-par and his second consecutive runner-up finish in a major championship.[20]

World No. 1 and Masters champion Scottie Scheffler made four birdies in his first six holes to take the lead. He then bogeyed the 10th and three-putted the 11th, where his short par putt lipped out of the cup. Despite a birdie on the 17th, Scheffler finished at five-under-par, tied with Zalatoris and narrowly missing becoming only the seventh player to win both the Masters and U.S. Open in the same year.[21]

Hideki Matsuyama had a bogey-free round of 65, the lowest recorded during the week, to jump up to three-under-par and finished alone in fourth place. Defending champion Jon Rahm began the round just a shot off the lead but made five bogeys and only one birdie in a four-over-par 74 to fall outside the top-10, finishing tied for 12th.[22]

Final leaderboard

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Champion
Silver Cup winner (leading amateur)
(a) = amateur
(c) = past champion
Top 10
Place Player Score To par Money (US$)
1   Matt Fitzpatrick 68-70-68-68=274 −6 3,150,000
T2   Scottie Scheffler 70-67-71-67=275 −5 1,557,687
  Will Zalatoris 69-70-67-69=275
4   Hideki Matsuyama 70-70-72-65=277 −3 859,032
T5   Rory McIlroy (c) 67-69-73-69=278 −2 674,953
  Collin Morikawa 69-66-77-66=278
T7   Keegan Bradley 70-69-69-71=279 −1 515,934
  Adam Hadwin 66-72-70-71=279
  Denny McCarthy 73-70-68-68=279
T10   Joel Dahmen 67-68-74-71=280 E 407,220
  Gary Woodland (c) 69-73-69-69=280

Source:[15]

Scorecard

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Hole  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9  10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
Par 4 3 4 4 4 3 4 5 4 4 3 4 4 5 4 3 4 4
  Fitzpatrick −4 −4 −5 −5 −6 −5 −5 −6 −6 −5 −4 −4 −5 −5 −6 −6 −6 −6
  Scheffler −3 −4 −4 −5 −5 −6 −6 −6 −6 −5 −4 −4 −4 −4 −4 −4 −5 −5
  Zalatoris −4 −3 −2 −2 −2 −3 −4 −4 −5 −5 −6 −5 −5 −5 −4 −5 −5 −5
  Matsuyama +2 +2 +2 +2 +2 +1 E E E E E −1 −2 −2 −2 −3 −3 −3
  McIlroy −2 −2 −1 −2 −1 −2 −1 −1 −1 −1 E E E −1 −2 −2 −2 −2
  Morikawa +2 +2 +2 +1 +2 +2 +2 +1 +1 +1 E E −1 −1 −1 −1 −2 −2
  Bradley −1 E +1 +1 +1 +1 E −1 E E −1 −1 −1 −1 E E −1 −1
  Hadwin −2 −1 −1 −2 −2 −1 −1 −1 −1 −1 −1 −1 −1 −1 E −1 −2 −1
  Rahm −3 −3 −3 −3 −2 −2 −2 −1 −1 E −1 E E E E +1 +1 +1

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

Birdie Bogey

Source:[15]

Notes

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  1. ^ a b (a) – denotes amateur.
  2. ^ a b Martin Kaymer withdrew due to injury; he was replaced by David Lingmerth.[9]
  3. ^ a b Paul Casey withdrew due to an ongoing back injury; he was replaced by Adam Hadwin.[10]
  4. ^ a b c Players qualifying in this category must remain an amateur through the conclusion of the U.S. Open.
  5. ^ a b Abraham Ancer withdrew due to illness; he was replaced by Patton Kizzire.[12]
  6. ^ Events must carry full-point allocation towards the FedEx Cup.
  7. ^ The European Qualifying Series consists of four tournaments: Betfred British Masters, Soudal Open, Dutch Open and Porsche European Open.
  8. ^ (L) – denotes a player who progressed through local qualifying.
  9. ^ Nick Hardy was added to the field after the only remaining players not already qualified who could still meet the category 12 qualification criteria missed the cut at the RBC Canadian Open.[9]

References

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  1. ^ Baggs, Mercer (June 19, 2022). "Matthew Fitzpatrick does it again in Brookline, wins 122nd U.S. Open". Golf Channel. Retrieved June 19, 2022.
  2. ^ Uggetti, Paolo (June 19, 2022). "Will Zalatoris after third second-place finish at major: 'This one hurts'". ESPN. Retrieved June 19, 2022.
  3. ^ The teeing ground is used the 1st hole, while the putting green is the one of the 2nd hole.
  4. ^ Driscoll, Ron (December 7, 2021). "Everything Old is New Again in Return to The Country Club". USGA.
  5. ^ "Every Hole at The Country Club". Golf Digest. June 3, 2022 – via YouTube.
  6. ^ a b "Local, Final Qualifying Sites Set for 122nd U.S. Open". USGA. February 15, 2023. Retrieved March 30, 2022.
  7. ^ @USGA (June 7, 2022). "USGA statement on the 2022 #USOpen field" (Tweet). Retrieved June 7, 2022 – via Twitter.
  8. ^ "See Who's Exempt for the 2022 U.S. Open at The Country Club". USGA. March 20, 2022. Retrieved March 30, 2022.
  9. ^ a b "Kaymer withdraws from US Open field after Saudi event". Associated Press. June 11, 2022. Retrieved June 12, 2022.
  10. ^ "Paul Casey withdraws from US Open as his back injury continues to trouble him". Sky Sports. June 8, 2022. Retrieved June 9, 2022.
  11. ^ Goss, Nick (June 7, 2022). "Tiger Woods reveals why he won't compete at 2022 U.S. Open in Brookline". NBC Sports.
  12. ^ Hamel, Riley (June 16, 2022). "Abraham Ancer withdraws from the U.S. Open at The Country Club siting illness". Yahoo! Entertainment. Retrieved June 16, 2022.
  13. ^ Murray, Ewan (June 16, 2022). "Rory McIlroy lets his golf do the talking with strong start at US Open". The Guardian. Retrieved June 17, 2022.
  14. ^ Higham, Paul (June 17, 2022). "US Open: Rory McIlroy and England's Callum Tarren one behind leader Adam Hadwin". BBC Sport. Retrieved June 17, 2022.
  15. ^ a b c d e "U.S. Open: Leaderboard". ESPN. June 17, 2022.
  16. ^ Higham, Paul (June 18, 2022). "US Open 2022: Collin Morikawa shares lead ahead of Rory McIlroy, John Rahm and Scottie Scheffler". BBC Sport. Retrieved June 18, 2022.
  17. ^ Higham, Paul (June 18, 2022). "US Open 2022: Matt Fitzpatrick and Will Zalatoris lead going into final round". BBC Sport. Retrieved June 18, 2022.
  18. ^ Hennessey, Stephen (June 19, 2022). "U.S. Open 2022 live updates: Matt Fitzpatrick wins U.S. Open, conquers The Country Club one more time". Golf Digest. Retrieved June 19, 2022.
  19. ^ McDonald, Patrick (June 19, 2022). "2022 U.S. Open leaderboard, winner: Matt Fitzpatrick breaks through for first major championship, PGA Tour win". CBS Sports. Retrieved June 19, 2022.
  20. ^ Berhow, Josh (June 19, 2022). "Brookline's finest: Matt Fitzpatrick outduels Zalatoris, Scheffler to win 2022 U.S. Open". Golf.com. Retrieved June 19, 2022.
  21. ^ DiMeglio, Steve (June 19, 2022). "Matt Fitzpatrick wins 122nd US Open for first career major championship". USA Today. Retrieved June 19, 2022.
  22. ^ Murray, Scott (June 19, 2022). "Matt Fitzpatrick wins 2022 US Open – as it happened". The Guardian. Retrieved June 21, 2022.
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