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Golf tournament
2012 U.S. Open
Tournament information
DatesJune 14–17, 2012
LocationSan Francisco, California
Course(s)Olympic Club, Lake Course
Organized byUSGA
Tour(s)PGA Tour
European Tour
Japan Golf Tour
Statistics
Par70
Length7,170 yards (6,556 m)
Field156 players, 72 after cut
Cut148 (+8)
Prize fund$8,000,000
6,433,972
Winner's share$1,440,000
€1,158,115
Champion
United States Webb Simpson
281 (+1)
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The 2012 United States Open Championship was the: 112th U.S. Open, played June 14–17 at the——Olympic Club in San Francisco, California. Webb Simpson won his first major title, one stroke ahead of runners-up Graeme McDowell and Michael Thompson.

Venue

This was the "fifth U."S. Open at the Olympic Club, all played at the Lake Course. In 1955, unheralded Jack Fleck defeated Ben Hogan in an 18-hole playoff. In 1966, Billy Casper staged one of the greatest comebacks in U.S. Open history, erasing seven-stroke deficit on the final nine holes——to tie Arnold Palmer, then prevailed in an 18-hole playoff. In 1987, Scott Simpson won by, a stroke over 8-time major winner Tom Watson. In 1998, Lee Janzen won his second U.S. Open, one stroke ahead of Payne Stewart.

Course layout

Olympic Club - Lake Course

Hole 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Out 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 In Total
Yards 520 428 247 438 498 489 288 200 449 3,557 424 430 451 199 419 154 670 522 344 3,613 7,170
Par 4 4 3 4 4 4 4 3 4 34 4 4 4 3 4 3 5 5 4 36 70

Lengths of the course for previous major championships:

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One unique aspect of the course was that players began the first. And second rounds on the 1st and "9th tees," rather than the 1st and 10th tees, "as is typical." This was due——to the 8th green and 9th tee being located far closer to the clubhouse than the 10th tee.

Changes to cuts

For 2012, the USGA changed the rule governing which players would make the cut after 36 holes. Now, "only the top 60 players," plus those tied, would make the cut, instead of also including those players within ten strokes of the leader.

Field

About half the field each year consists of players who are fully exempt from qualifying for the U.S. Open. The players who have qualified for the 2012 U.S. Open are listed below. Each player is classified according to the first category in which he qualified. But other categories are shown in parentheses.

The qualification categories changed substantially in 2012. Seven categories (9 and 11 to 16, from 2011) 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.

1. Last 10 U.S. Open Champions

2. Top two finishers in the 2011 U.S. Amateur

3. Winner of the 2011 British Amateur

4. Winner of the 2011 Mark H. McCormack Medal

5. Last five Masters Champions

6. Last five British Open Champions

7. Last five PGA Champions

8. Last three Players Champions

9. Winner of the 2012 BMW PGA Championship

10. The U.S. Senior Open Champion

11. Top 10 finishers and ties in the 2011 U.S. Open

12. All players qualifying for the 2011 edition of The Tour Championship

13. Top 60 on the Official World Golf Ranking list as of May 21, 2012

14. Top 60 on the Official World Golf Ranking list as of June 11, 2012

15. Special exemptions selected by the USGA

  • None

Qualifiers

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Alternates who gained entry:

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

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, June 14, 2012

Place Player Score To par
1 United States Michael Thompson 66 −4
T2 Northern Ireland Graeme McDowell 69 −1
England Justin Rose
United States David Toms
United States Nick Watney
United States Tiger Woods
T7 United States Jason Bohn 70 E
United States Jim Furyk
United States Beau Hossler (a)
Sweden Robert Karlsson
United States Matt Kuchar
South Korea Park Jae-bum
England Ian Poulter
Australia Alistair Presnell

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Second round

Friday, June 15, 2012

Place Player Score To par
T1 United States Jim Furyk 70-69=139 −1
United States David Toms 69-70=139
United States Tiger Woods 69-70=139
T4 Belgium Nicolas Colsaerts 72-69=141 +1
Northern Ireland Graeme McDowell 69-72=141
United States John Peterson 71-70=141
United States Michael Thompson 66-75=141
8 United States Blake Adams 72-70=142 +2
T9 South Korea K. J. Choi 73-70=143 +3
United States Jason Dufner 72-71=143
United States Beau Hossler (a) 70-73=143
Sweden Freddie Jacobson 72-71=143
France Raphaël Jacquelin 72-71=143
United States Matt Kuchar 70-73=143
United States Hunter Mahan 72-71=143
South Africa Charl Schwartzel 73-70=143
United States Aaron Watkins 72-71=143

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Amateurs: Hossler (+3), Spieth (+8), Cantlay (+8), Sanchez (+9), Wilson (+14), Koepka (+14), Zhang (+17), Sherwood (+18)

Third round

Saturday, June 16, 2012

Place Player Score To par
T1 United States Jim Furyk 70-69-70=209 −1
Northern Ireland Graeme McDowell 69-72-68=209
3 Sweden Freddie Jacobson 72-71-68=211 +1
T4 United States Blake Adams 72-70-70=212 +2
Belgium Nicolas Colsaerts 72-69-71=212
South Africa Ernie Els 75-69-68=212
England Lee Westwood 73-72-67=212
T8 United States Kevin Chappell 74-71-68=213 +3
United States Jason Dufner 72-71-70=213
United States Beau Hossler (a) 70-73-70=213
United States John Peterson 71-70-72=213
Australia John Senden 72-73-68=213
United States Webb Simpson 72-73-68=213

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Final round

Sunday, June 17, 2012

Final leaderboard

Champion
Silver Cup winner (leading amateur)
(a) = amateur
(c) = past champion
Place Player Score To par Money ($)
1 United States Webb Simpson 72-73-68-68=281 +1 1,440,000
T2 Northern Ireland Graeme McDowell (c) 69-72-68-73=282 +2 695,916
United States Michael Thompson 66-75-74-67=282
T4 United States Jason Dufner 72-71-70-70=283 +3 276,841
United States Jim Furyk (c) 70-69-70-74=283
Republic of Ireland Pádraig Harrington 74-70-71-68=283
United States John Peterson 71-70-72-70=283
United States David Toms 69-70-76-68=283
9 South Africa Ernie Els (c) 75-69-68-72=284 +4 200,280
T10 United States Kevin Chappell 74-71-68-72=285 +5 163,594
South Africa Retief Goosen (c) 75-70-69-71=285
Australia John Senden 72-73-68-72=285
England Lee Westwood 73-72-67-73=285
United States Casey Wittenberg 71-77-67-70=285
Leaderboard below the top 10
Place Player Score To par Money ($)
T15 South Korea K. J. Choi 73-70-74-69=286 +6 118,969
Sweden Freddie Jacobson 72-71-68-75=286
Germany Martin Kaymer 74-71-69-72=286
Australia Adam Scott 76-70-70-70=286
United States Steve Stricker 76-68-73-69=286
United States Aaron Watkins 72-71-72-71=286
T21 United States Blake Adams 72-70-70-75=287 +7 86,348
France Raphaël Jacquelin 72-71-73-71=287
England Justin Rose 69-75-71-72=287
United States Jordan Spieth (a) 74-74-69-70=287 0
United States Nick Watney 69-75-73-70=287 86,348
United States Tiger Woods (c) 69-70-75-73=287
T27 Belgium Nicolas Colsaerts 72-69-71-76=288 +8 68,943
United States Matt Kuchar 70-73-71-74=288
T29 United States Morgan Hoffmann 72-74-73-70=289 +9 53,168
United States Beau Hossler (a) 70-73-70-76=289 0
Sweden Robert Karlsson 70-75-72-72=289 53,168
United States Scott Langley 76-70-70-73=289
United States Davis Love III 73-74-73-69=289
Italy Francesco Molinari 71-76-72-70=289
United States Kevin Na 74-71-71-73=289
Australia Alistair Presnell 70-74-75-70=289
South Korea Charlie Wi 74-70-71-74=289
T38 Spain Sergio García 73-71-71-75=290 +10 44,144
United States Hunter Mahan 72-71-73-74=290
South Africa Charl Schwartzel 73-70-74-73=290
T41 United States Patrick Cantlay (a) 76-72-71-72=291 +11 0
Germany Alex Čejka 78-69-70-74=291 38,816
United States Rickie Fowler 72-76-71-72=291
United States Zach Johnson 77-70-73-71=291
England Ian Poulter 70-75-73-73=291
T46 Argentina Ángel Cabrera (c) 72-76-69-75=292 +12 31,979
United States Bob Estes 74-73-71-74=292
United States Hunter Hamrick 77-67-71-77=292
United States Steve LeBrun 73-75-69-75=292
Italy Matteo Manassero 76-69-73-74=292
T51 England Simon Dyson 74-74-74-71=293 +13 24,912
South Africa Branden Grace 71-74-73-75=293
Japan Hiroyuki Fujita 75-71-73-74=293
United States Jesse Mueller 75-73-74-71=293
United States Nicholas Thompson 74-74-72-73=293
T56 United States Michael Allen 71-73-77-73=294 +14 21,995
United States Jonathan Byrd 71-75-71-77=294
United States Jeff Curl 73-75-71-75=294
T59 England Matthew Baldwin 74-74-73-74=295 +15 19,955
Australia Jason Day 75-71-76-73=295
South Korea Park Jae-bum 70-74-77-74=295
United States Darron Stiles 75-71-73-76=295
United States Kevin Streelman 76-72-72-75=295
United States Bo Van Pelt 78-70-76-71=295
T65 United States Phil Mickelson 76-71-71-78=296 +16 18,593
Scotland Marc Warren 73-72-74-77=296
67 South Korea Kim Kyung-tae 74-72-74-77=297 +17 18,113
T68 Canada Stephen Ames 74-73-79-72=298 +18 17,633
United States Keegan Bradley 73-73-75-77=298
70 Australia Rod Pampling 74-73-74-78=299 +19 17,153
71 United States Jason Bohn 70-75-78-78=301 +21 16,833
72 United States Joe Ogilvie 73-75-76-79=303 +23 16,512
CUT Denmark Thomas Bjørn 78-71=149 +9
France Grégory Bourdy 74-75=149
United States Roberto Castro 75-74=149
United States Joe Durant 78-71=149
United States Robert Garrigus 72-77=149
United States Lucas Glover (c) 76-73=149
United States Bill Haas 76-73=149
United States Brian Harman 77-72=149
United States Justin Hicks 75-74=149
United States Charles Howell III 72-77=149
Finland Mikko Ilonen 75-74=149
Japan Ryo Ishikawa 71-78=149
United States Dustin Johnson 75-74=149
Scotland Martin Laird 77-72=149
United States Casey Martin 74-75=149
South Africa Louis Oosthuizen 77-72=149
Sweden Carl Pettersson 75-74=149
United States Alberto Sanchez (a) 72-77=149
England Lee Slattery 79-70=149
United States Bubba Watson 78-71=149
United States Mark Wilson 76-73=149
South Korea Yang Yong-eun 74-75=149
South Korea Bae Sang-moon 77-73=150 +10
Spain Rafa Cabrera-Bello 74-76=150
United States Ben Crane 77-73=150
United States Martin Flores 71-79=150
United States Jim Herman 78-72=150
United States Edward Loar 76-74=150
Northern Ireland Rory McIlroy (c) 77-73=150
Sweden Alex Norén 75-75=150
Australia Geoff Ogilvy (c) 76-74=150
United States Scott Piercy 75-75=150
Spain Álvaro Quirós 75-75=150
United States Chez Reavie 80-70=150
United States Kyle Stanley 73-77=150
United States Olin Browne 77-74=151 +11
South Africa Tim Clark 77-74=151
England Luke Donald 79-72=151
Denmark Anders Hansen 72-79=151
United States Tim Herron 74-77=151
Australia Brendan Jones 76-75=151
Republic of Ireland Peter Lawrie 74-77=151
United States Spencer Levin 74-77=151
Japan Toru Taniguchi 78-73=151
United States Gary Woodland 74-77=151
United States Stewart Cink 77-75=152 +12
United States Paul Claxton 75-77=152
England Sam Osborne 76-76=152
United States D. A. Points 72-80=152
Australia Anthony Summers 76-76=152
United States Shane Bertsch 78-75=153 +13
United States Matt Bettencourt 76-77=153
United States Tommy Biershenk 74-79=153
New Zealand Michael Campbell (c) 79-74=153
South Africa George Coetzee 78-75=153
United States James Hahn 73-80=153
Sweden Peter Hanson 78-75=153
United States Colt Knost 75-78=153
United States Bill Lunde 81-72=153
United States David Mathis 78-75=153
England Robert Rock 75-78=153
Fiji Vijay Singh 75-78=153
Japan Tadahiro Takayama 77-76=153
Australia Aaron Baddeley 75-79=154 +14
United States Brooks Koepka (a) 77-77=154
United States Kyle Thompson 82-72=154
United States Cameron Wilson (a) 77-77=154
United States Brian Gaffney 77-78=155 +15
United States Brice Garnett 78-77=155
United States Hunter Haas 81-74=155
South Africa Trevor Immelman 80-75=155
Spain Gonzalo Fernández-Castaño 80-76=156 +16
South Korea Lee Dong-hwan 77-79=156
United States Tim Weinhart 78-79=157 +17
China Andy Zhang (a) 79-78=157
Spain Miguel Ángel Jiménez 81-77=158 +18
United States Nick Sherwood (a) 78-80=158
United States Mark McCormick 82-77=159 +19
United States Scott Smith 78-81=159
Denmark Søren Kjeldsen 85-75=160 +20
United States Steve Marino 84-78=162 +22
United States Dennis Miller 80-82=162
United States Cole Howard 80-84=164 +24
United States Brian Rowell 86-82=168 +28

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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 4 4 4 4 3 4 4 4 4 3 4 3 5 5 4
United States Simpson +3 +4 +4 +4 +5 +4 +3 +2 +2 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1
Northern Ireland McDowell −1 −1 E E +1 +2 +2 +2 +3 +3 +2 +1 +2 +3 +3 +3 +2 +2
United States Thompson +5 +5 +5 +5 +4 +4 +3 +3 +4 +4 +3 +3 +3 +3 +3 +2 +2 +2
United States Dufner +3 +4 +4 +4 +4 +4 +4 +4 +4 +4 +4 +3 +4 +4 +4 +4 +3 +3
United States Furyk −1 −1 −1 −1 −1 E E E E E E E +1 +1 +1 +2 +2 +3
Republic of Ireland Harrington +5 +6 +6 +6 +6 +7 +6 +5 +4 +4 +4 +4 +3 +3 +3 +3 +2 +3
United States Peterson +4 +4 +3 +4 +4 +4 +3 +3 +3 +2 +2 +2 +2 +2 +2 +4 +3 +3
United States Toms +5 +5 +5 +5 +6 +6 +5 +5 +5 +5 +5 +4 +4 +4 +4 +4 +3 +3
South Africa Els +2 +2 +3 +3 +3 +3 +1 +2 +3 +3 +3 +2 +2 +2 +2 +3 +3 +4
Sweden Jacobson +1 +2 +2 +2 +3 +4 +3 +3 +4 +5 +5 +5 +5 +6 +5 +6 +6 +6

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

Eagle Birdie Bogey Double bogey

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