2022 U.S. Open (golf) explained

2022 U.S. Open
Dates:June 16–19, 2022
Location:Brookline, Massachusetts
Course:The Country Club
Org:USGA
Tour:PGA Tour
European Tour
Japan Golf Tour
Par:70
Yardage:7264yd
Field:156 players, 64 after cut
Cut:143 (+3)
Purse:$17,500,000
Winners Share:$3,150,000
Champion: Matt Fitzpatrick
Score:274 (−6)
Previous:2021
Next:2023
Map:USA#USA Massachusetts
Map Relief:yes
Map Label:The Country Club
Coordinates:42.3167°N -80°W

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.

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

See main article: The Country Club. Composite Course

HoleNameYardsParHoleNameYardsPar
1Polo Field488410Himalayas4994
2Cottage215311Redan1313
3Pond499412Stockton4734
4Newton493413Primrose 1&2<ref>The teeing ground is used the 1st hole, while the putting green is the one of the 2nd hole.4504
5Bakers310414Primrose 86195
6Plateau192315Liverpool5104
7Corner375416Clyde2023
8Quarry557517Elbow3734
9Primrose 9427418Home4514
Out3,55635In3,70835
Total 7,26470

Sources:[3] [4]

Yardage by round

RoundHole123456789Out101112131415161718InTotal
Par434443454354344543443570
1stYards4902084904823151963685484323,5295001224684676245162013814443,7237,252
2ndYards4962174964903051653805474213,5175041364764406165001913644493,6767,193
3rdYards4982174884853141973645604203,5435021414674336225031753794453,6677,210
FinalYards4842215004883011583855614223,5205031084714386255272093624443,6877,207

Field

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.[5]

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.[6]

Exemptions

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.[7]

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

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 from the 2021 U.S. Open to the start of the 2022 tournament

13. The winner of the 2021 Amateur Championship

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

15. The winner of the 2020 Olympic Gold Medal

16. The leading 10 points winners from the "European Qualifying Series" 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

Eleven final qualifying events were held, nine of which were in the United States:[5]

Date Location Venue Field Spots Qualifiers
May23 Caledonian Golf Club 28 3 Daijiro Izumida, Todd Sinnott, Tomoyasu Sugiyama
May23 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)
Jun6 RattleSnake Point Golf Club 25 3 Jonas Blixt, Satoshi Kodaira, Callum Tarren
Jun6 88 5 Luke Gannon (L), Taylor Montgomery, William Mouw (a), Jesse Mueller, Charlie Reiter (a,L)
Jun6 The Club at Admiral's Cove 70 4 Fred Biondi (a), Ryan Gerard (L), Keith Greene (L), Sean Jacklin (L)
Jun6 Ansley Golf Club 68 4
Jun6 Woodmont Country Club 73 4 Andrew Beckler (L), Joseph Bramlett, Kevin Chappell, Grayson Murray
Jun6 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)
Jun6 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
Jun6 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
Jun6 Pronghorn Resort 65 3 Brady Calkins (L), Ben Lorenz (a,L), Isaiah Salinda (L)

Alternates who gained entry

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

Round summaries

First round

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.[9] 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.[10]

PlacePlayerScoreTo par
1 66 −4
T2 67 −3
Joel Dahmen
David Lingmerth
Rory McIlroy
Callum Tarren
T7 68 −2
Matt Fitzpatrick
Brian Harman
Dustin Johnson
Matthew NeSmith
Justin Rose
Aaron Wise
Source:[11]

Second round

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.[12]

PlacePlayerScoreTo par
T1 67-68=135 −5
69-66=135
T3 68-68=136 −4
69-67=136
67-69=136
69-67=136
68-68=136
T8 69-68=137 −3
68-69=137
68-69=137
69-68=137
70-67=137
Source:[11]

Third round

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.[13]

PlacePlayerScoreTo par
T1 68-70-68=206 −4
69-70-67=206
3 69-67-71=207 −3
T4 70-69-69=208 −2
66-72-70=208
70-67-71=208
T7 71-67-71=209 −1
67-68-74=209
67-69-73=209
10 69-68-73=210 E
Source:[11]

Final round

Sunday, June 19, 2022

Summary

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.[14]

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.[15]

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.[16]

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.[17]

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.[18]

Final leaderboard

Champion
Silver Cup winner (leading amateur)
(a) = amateur
(c) = past champion
Top 10!Place!!Player!!Score!!To par!!Money (US$)
1 68-70-68-68=274 −6 3,150,000
T2 70-67-71-67=275 −5 1,557,687
69-70-67-69=275
4 70-70-72-65=277 −3 859,032
T5 Rory McIlroy (c) 67-69-73-69=278 −2 674,953
69-66-77-66=278
T7 70-69-69-71=279 −1 515,934
66-72-70-71=279
73-70-68-68=279
T10 67-68-74-71=280 E 407,220
Gary Woodland (c) 69-73-69-69=280
Source:[11]

Scorecard

Hole 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 101112131415161718
Par434443454 434454344
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
BirdieBogey
Source:[11]

Notes

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Baggs . Mercer . Matthew Fitzpatrick does it again in Brookline, wins 122nd U.S. Open . Golf Channel . June 19, 2022 . June 19, 2022.
  2. News: Uggetti . Paolo . Will Zalatoris after third second-place finish at major: 'This one hurts' . ESPN . June 19, 2022 . June 19, 2022.
  3. Web site: Everything Old is New Again in Return to The Country Club . USGA . December 7, 2021 . Ron . Driscoll.
  4. Web site: Every Hole at The Country Club . Golf Digest . YouTube . June 3, 2022.
  5. Web site: Local, Final Qualifying Sites Set for 122nd U.S. Open . USGA . March 30, 2022 . February 15, 2023.
  6. USGA . 1534218673958821891 . June 7, 2022 . USGA statement on the 2022 #USOpen field . June 7, 2022.
  7. Web site: See Who's Exempt for the 2022 U.S. Open at The Country Club . USGA . March 30, 2022 . March 20, 2022.
  8. News: Tiger Woods reveals why he won't compete at 2022 U.S. Open in Brookline . Nick . Goss . NBC Sports . June 7, 2022.
  9. News: Rory McIlroy lets his golf do the talking with strong start at US Open . June 16, 2022 . The Guardian . Ewan . Murray . June 17, 2022.
  10. News: US Open: Rory McIlroy and England's Callum Tarren one behind leader Adam Hadwin . June 17, 2022 . BBC Sport . Paul . Higham . June 17, 2022.
  11. Web site: U.S. Open: Leaderboard . ESPN . June 17, 2022.
  12. News: US Open 2022: Collin Morikawa shares lead ahead of Rory McIlroy, John Rahm and Scottie Scheffler . June 18, 2022 . BBC Sport . Paul . Higham . June 18, 2022.
  13. News: US Open 2022: Matt Fitzpatrick and Will Zalatoris lead going into final round . June 18, 2022 . BBC Sport . Paul . Higham . June 18, 2022.
  14. Hennessey . Stephen . U.S. Open 2022 live updates: Matt Fitzpatrick wins U.S. Open, conquers The Country Club one more time . Golf Digest . June 19, 2022 . June 19, 2022.
  15. News: McDonald . Patrick . 2022 U.S. Open leaderboard, winner: Matt Fitzpatrick breaks through for first major championship, PGA Tour win . CBS Sports . June 19, 2022 . June 19, 2022.
  16. Web site: Berhow . Josh . Brookline's finest: Matt Fitzpatrick outduels Zalatoris, Scheffler to win 2022 U.S. Open . Golf.com . June 19, 2022 . June 19, 2022.
  17. News: DiMeglio . Steve . Matt Fitzpatrick wins 122nd US Open for first career major championship . USA Today . June 19, 2022 . June 19, 2022.
  18. News: Matt Fitzpatrick wins 2022 US Open – as it happened . June 19, 2022 . The Guardian . Scott . Murray . June 21, 2022.

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