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Event
Information:
The
United States Open
Championship, the 112th U.S. Open,
will be played June 14–17 at the
Olympic Club in San Francisco,
California. The U.S. Open will
be the fifth at the Olympic Club,
all played at the Lake Course.
About
half the field each year consists of
players who are fully exempt from
qualifying for the U.S. Open. The
qualification categories changed
substantially in . Seven
categories (9 and 11 to 16, from
) were eliminated. These
categories exempted top finishers on
the money lists of various tours and
multiple PGA Tour winners. Three
categories were added (3, 4, and 9
below), for the winners of The
Amateur Championship, the Mark H.
McCormack Medal, and the BMW PGA
Championship. Two categories were
expanded (13 and 14 below), to
include the top 60 instead of the
top 50 in the Official World Golf
Ranking.
The
Olympic Club is an athletic club and
private social club in San
Francisco, California. Its main
"City Clubhouse" is located in
downtown San Francisco, and its
three golf courses are in the
southwestern corner of the city, at
the border with Daly City. The
"Lakeside Clubhouse" is located just
north of the Daly City border; the
two clubhouses are separated by
about 10 miles (16 km).
The
three golf courses are named Lake,
Ocean, and Cliffs. Lake and Ocean
are 18-hole par-71 courses, and the
Cliffs is a nine-hole par-3 course
in the bluffs overlooking the
Pacific Ocean. All three venues are
lined with many trees (almost 40,000
on the Lake course) and offer views
of the Golden Gate Bridge and Golden
Gate Park. The United States Golf
Association recognizes the Olympic
Club as one of the first 100 golf
clubs established in the United
States.
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