2002 U.S. Open (golf) explained

2002 U.S. Open
Dates:	June 13–16, 2002
Location:	Farmingdale, New York
Course:	Bethpage State Park, Black Course
Org:	USGA
Tour:	PGA Tour European Tour Japan Golf Tour
Par:	70
Field:	156 players, 72 after cut
Cut:	150 (+10)
Purse:	$6,250,000 €6,614,456
Winners Share:	$1,000,000 €1,058,313^[1]
Score:	277 (−3)
Previous:	2001
Next:	2003

The 2002 United States Open Championship was the 102nd U.S. Open, held June 13–16 at the Black Course of Bethpage State Park in Farmingdale, New York, east of New York City on Long Island. Tiger Woods was the champion at 277 (−3), three shots ahead of runner-up Phil Mickelson. It was Woods' second U.S. Open victory and eighth major championship win of his career. Woods was the only golfer in the field to finish under par.

This U.S. Open was billed as "The People's Open", as it was the first to be held on a true public golf course.

For the first time in thirty years, the winner of the Masters also won the U.S. Open, for the first half of the grand slam. It was last accomplished by Jack Nicklaus in 1972, and also by Arnold Palmer (1960), Ben Hogan (1951, 1953), and Craig Wood (1941).

Nick Faldo and Hale Irwin were given special exemptions from the USGA to play in the event.^[2] ^[3]

Course layout

Bethpage State Park - Black Course^[4]

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Out	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	In	Total
Yardage	430	389	205	517	451	408	489	210	418	3,517	492	435	499	554	161	459	479	207	411	3,697	7,214
Par	4	4	3	5	4	4	4	3	4	35	4	4	4	5	3	4	4	3	4	35	70

Field

1. Last 10 U.S. Open ChampionsErnie Els (9,10,11,14,17), Retief Goosen (8,10,11,14,17), Lee Janzen, Steve Jones, Tom Kite (8), Corey Pavin, Tiger Woods (3,4,5,8,9,11,12,17)

2. The U.S. Amateur champion

Bubba Dickerson forfeited his exemption by turning professional.

3. Last five Masters ChampionsJosé María Olazábal (11,17), Mark O'Meara (4), Vijay Singh (5,8,9,11,17)

4. Last five British Open ChampionsDavid Duval (9,17), Paul Lawrie (10), Justin Leonard (9,17)

5. Last five PGA ChampionsDavis Love III (8,9,17), David Toms (9,11,12,17)

6. The Players ChampionCraig Perks

7. The U.S. Senior Open Champion

Bruce Fleisher did not play.

8. Top 15 finishers and ties in the 2001 U.S. Open Michael Allen, Paul Azinger (17), Mark Brooks, Ángel Cabrera (10,17), Stewart Cink (9,17), Sergio García (9,12,17), Matt Gogel, Rocco Mediate (17), Phil Mickelson (9,11,17), Kirk Triplett

9. Top 30 leaders on the 2001 PGA Tour official money listRobert Allenby (17), Mark Calcavecchia (17), Chris DiMarco (11,17), Joe Durant (17), Bob Estes (12,17), Brad Faxon (17), Jim Furyk (17), Scott Hoch (12,17), Bernhard Langer (10,17), Tom Lehman (17), Frank Lickliter, Steve Lowery, Scott McCarron (17), Billy Mayfair, Kenny Perry (17), Jeff Sluman, Steve Stricker, Hal Sutton (17), Scott Verplank (17), Mike Weir (17)

10. Top 15 on the 2001 European Tour Order of MeritThomas Bjørn (17), Michael Campbell (17), Darren Clarke (17), Niclas Fasth (17), Pádraig Harrington (17), David Howell, Robert Karlsson, Paul McGinley (17), Colin Montgomerie (17), Adam Scott (17)

11. Top 10 on the PGA Tour official money list, as of May 26Shigeki Maruyama (17), Nick Price (17)

12. Winners of multiple PGA Tour events from April 25, 2001, through the 2002 Kemper Insurance Open

13. Special exemptions selected by the USGA Nick Faldo, Hale Irwin

14. Top 2 from the 2002 European Tour Order of Merit, as of May 27

15. Top 2 on the 2001 Japan Golf Tour, provided they are within the top 75 point leaders of the Official World Golf Rankings at that timeToshimitsu Izawa (17), Shingo Katayama (17)

16. Top 2 on the 2001–02 PGA Tour of Australasia as of March 17, 2002, provided they are within the top 75 point leaders of the Official World Golf Rankings at that timePeter O'Malley, Craig Parry

17. Top 50 on the Official World Golf Rankings list, as of May 27Billy Andrade, José Cóceres, John Cook, John Daly, Dudley Hart, Jerry Kelly, Matt Kuchar, Len Mattiace, Jesper Parnevik, Kevin Sutherland

Sectional qualifiers

Daly City, California: Ricky Barnes (a,L), Paul Goydos, Andy Miller (L)
Denver, Colorado: Ben Portie, Derek Tolan (a,L)
Tampa, Florida: John Huston, Greg Norman, Tony Soerries (L), Kevin Warrick (a,L)
Roswell, Georgia: Ken Duke (L), Thomas Levet, Scott Parel (L)
North Barrington, Illinois: Tom Gillis, Adam Speirs (L)
Rockville, Maryland: Stephen Ames, Stuart Appleby, Woody Austin, Jay Don Blake, Craig Bowden (L), Olin Browne, Greg Chalmers, Michael Clark II, Ben Crane, Luke Donald, Jim Gallagher Jr., Brian Gay, Brent Geiberger, Lucas Glover (L), Paul Gow, Jerry Haas (L), Steve Haskins, Donnie Hammond, Tim Herron, Charles Howell III, Kent Jones, Pete Jordan, Franklin Langham, Brad Lardon (L), Peter Lonard, Blaine McCallister, George McNeill (L), Spike McRoy (L), Michael Muehr, Steve Pate, Joey Sindelar, Heath Slocum, Hidemichi Tanaka, Phil Tataurangi
St. Louis, Missouri: Trevor Dodds, Tom Pernice Jr., Mario Tiziani (L)
Purchase, New York: Tom Byrum, Jason Caron (L), Jim Carter, K. J. Choi, Scott Dunlap, Harrison Frazar, David Frost, Kelly Gibson, Wayne Grady, Jay Haas, Per-Ulrik Johansson, Darrell Kestner (L), Taichiro Kiyota (a), Jeff Maggert, John Maginnes, Jim McGovern, Pat Perez, Jeev Milkha Singh, Craig Stadler, Paul Stankowski, Bob Tway, Jean van de Velde, Kaname Yokoo
Cincinnati, Ohio: Steve Flesch, Ian Leggatt, Todd Rose (L)
Aloha, Oregon: Ryan Moore (a,L)
Export, Pennsylvania: Charles Raulerson (L)
Houston, Texas: Andrew Sanders (L), Jimmy Walker

Alternates who gained entry

Felix Casas (Daly City) replaced Bruce Fleisher

(a) denotes amateur
(L) denotes player advanced through local qualifying

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, June 13, 2002

Place	Player	Score	To par^[5]
1	Tiger Woods	67	−3
2	Sergio García	68	−2
T3	K. J. Choi	69	−1
	Dudley Hart
	Jeff Maggert
	Billy Mayfair
T7	Stewart Cink	70	E
	Nick Faldo
	Pádraig Harrington
	Franklin Langham
	Steve Lowery
	Phil Mickelson

Second round

Friday, June 14, 2002

Place	Player	Score	To par^[6]
1	Tiger Woods	67-68=135	−5
2	Pádraig Harrington	70-68=138	−2
T3	K. J. Choi	69-73=142	+2
	Sergio García	68-74=142
	Davis Love III	71-71=142
	Jeff Maggert	69-73=142
T7	Shigeki Maruyama	76-67=143	+3
	Billy Mayfair	69-74=143
	Phil Mickelson	70-73=143
T10	Robert Allenby	74-70=144	+4
	Tom Byrum	72-72=144
	Niclas Fasth	72-72=144
	Steve Flesch	72-72=144
	Justin Leonard	73-71=144
	Scott McCarron	72-72=144
	Rocco Mediate	72-72=144

Amateurs: Warrick (+9), Kiyota (+12), Barnes (+13), Moore (+15), Tolan (+26).

Third round

Saturday, June 15, 2002

Place	Player	Score	To par^[7]
1	Tiger Woods	67-68-70=205	−5
2	Sergio García	68-74-67=209	−1
T3	Jeff Maggert	69-73-68=210	E
T3	Phil Mickelson	70-73-67=210	E
T5	Robert Allenby	74-70-67=211	+1
	Pádraig Harrington	70-68-73=211
	Billy Mayfair	69-74-68=211
T8	Nick Faldo	70-76-66=212	+2
T8	Justin Leonard	73-71-68=212	+2
T10	Tom Byrum	72-72-70=214	+4
	Davis Love III	71-71-72=214
	Scott McCarron	72-72-70=214

Final round

Sunday, June 16, 2002

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	Tiger Woods	67-68-70-72=277	−3	1,000,000
2	Phil Mickelson	70-73-67-70=280	E	585,000
3	Jeff Maggert	69-73-68-72=282	+2	362,356
4	Sergio García	68-74-67-74=283	+3	252,546
T5	Nick Faldo	70-76-66-73=285	+5	182,882
	Scott Hoch	71-75-70-69=285
	Billy Mayfair	69-74-68-74=285
T8	Tom Byrum	72-72-70-72=286	+6	138,665
	Pádraig Harrington	70-68-73-75=286
	Nick Price	72-75-69-70=286

Amateurs: Warrick (+27)^[8]

Scorecard

Final round

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Par	4	4	3	5	4	4	4	3	4	4	4	4	5	3	4	4	3	4
Woods	−4	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−5	−5	−5	−4	−4	−3
Mickelson	−1	−1	−1	−1	E	+1	+1	E	E	E	−1	−1	−2	−2	−2	−1	E	E
Maggert	E	E	+2	+1	E	E	+1	+1	+1	+1	+1	+1	+1	+1	+2	+2	+2	+2
García	−1	−1	E	E	E	E	+1	+1	+2	+2	+2	+3	+3	+2	+2	+2	+2	+3
Faldo	+2	+1	+1	+1	+2	+2	+3	+3	+3	+3	+4	+5	+5	+5	+4	+5	+5	+5
Hoch	+5	+4	+4	+4	+3	+3	+4	+4	+4	+5	+6	+7	+7	+6	+7	+7	+5	+5
Mayfair	+1	+2	+1	+2	+2	+4	+4	+4	+4	+4	+6	+6	+6	+6	+6	+6	+6	+5

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

	Double Eagle -->		Eagle		Birdie		Bogey		Double bogey		Triple bogey+ -->

Source:^[9]

External links

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Notes and References

Web site: U.S. Open Championship: leaderboard. European Tour. June 16, 2002. June 14, 2012.
News: Faldo gets special exemption to U.S. Open . Lodi News-Sentinel . California . Associated Press . May 30, 2002 . 16.
News: Irwin gets special exemption for U.S. Open . Augusta Chronicle . Georgia . Associated Press . February 2, 2002.
Web site: Inside the course: Bethpage State Park - Black Course. PGA Tour. June 24, 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20100430175349/http://www.pgatour.com/2009/r/06/14/inside.the.course/index.html. 2010-04-30. dead.
Web site: PGA European Tour . US Open Championship – Round 1 . https://archive.today/20090904161713/http://www.europeantour.com/default.sps?syndicatorguid=&rmasiteinstanceguid=&pagegid=%7BAEFB93B0-EFF5-4C05-AB0F-FD08D947D944%7D&infosid=1&eventid=2002032&roundno=1 . September 4, 2009 . dead . August 22, 2009 . mdy-all .
Web site: PGA European Tour . US Open Championship – Round 2 . https://archive.today/20090904161719/http://www.europeantour.com/default.sps?syndicatorguid=&rmasiteinstanceguid=&pagegid=%7BAEFB93B0-EFF5-4C05-AB0F-FD08D947D944%7D&infosid=1&eventid=2002032&roundno=2 . September 4, 2009 . dead . August 22, 2009 . mdy-all .
Web site: PGA European Tour . US Open Championship – Round 3 . https://archive.today/20090904161725/http://www.europeantour.com/default.sps?syndicatorguid=&rmasiteinstanceguid=&pagegid=%7BAEFB93B0-EFF5-4C05-AB0F-FD08D947D944%7D&infosid=1&eventid=2002032&roundno=3 . September 4, 2009 . dead . August 22, 2009 . mdy-all .
Web site: 2002 U.S. Open: leaderboard. Yahoo Sports. June 16, 2002. June 14, 2012.
News: U.S. Open Championship . ESPN . August 10, 2015.