2012 U.S. Open (golf)

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.^[4][5]

2012 U.S. Open

Tournament information
Dates	June 14–17, 2012
Location	San Francisco, California
Course(s)	Olympic Club, Lake Course
Organized by	USGA
Tour(s)	PGA Tour European Tour Japan Golf Tour
Statistics
Par	70
Length	7,170 yards (6,556 m)[1]
Field	156 players, 72 after cut
Cut	148 (+8)[2]
Prize fund	$8,000,000 €6,433,972
Winner's share	$1,440,000 €1,158,115[3]
Champion
Webb Simpson
281 (+1)
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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 a 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^[1][6][7]

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:

San Francisco

Location in the United States

San Francisco

Location in California

• 6,797 yards (6,215 m), par 70 - 1998 U.S. Open
• 6,709 yards (6,135 m), par 70 - 1987 U.S. Open
• 6,719 yards (6,144 m), par 70 - 1966 U.S. Open
• 6,700 yards (6,126 m), par 70 - 1955 U.S. Open

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.^[8] 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.^[9]

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.^[10]

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

• Ángel Cabrera (5)
• Michael Campbell
• Jim Furyk (13,14)
• Lucas Glover
• Retief Goosen
• Graeme McDowell (13,14)
• Rory McIlroy (11,13,14)
• Geoff Ogilvy (12,13,14)
• Tiger Woods (7,13,14)

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

• Patrick Cantlay (a,4)
• Kelly Kraft forfeited his invitation by turning pro in April 2012.^[11]

3. Winner of the 2011 British Amateur

• Bryden Macpherson forfeited his invitation by turning pro in April 2012.^[12]

4. Winner of the 2011 Mark H. McCormack Medal

5. Last five Masters Champions

• Trevor Immelman
• Phil Mickelson (12,13,14)
• Charl Schwartzel (11,13,14)
• Bubba Watson (12,13,14)

6. Last five British Open Champions

• Stewart Cink
• Pádraig Harrington (7)
• Louis Oosthuizen (11,13,14)

• Darren Clarke withdrew after a groin injury.^[13]

7. Last five PGA Champions

• Keegan Bradley (12,13,14)
• Martin Kaymer (13,14)
• Yang Yong-eun (11,12)

8. Last three Players Champions

• K. J. Choi (12,13,14)
• Tim Clark
• Matt Kuchar (12,13,14)

9. Winner of the 2012 BMW PGA Championship

• Luke Donald (12,13,14)

10. The U.S. Senior Open Champion

• Olin Browne

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

• Kevin Chappell
• Jason Day (12,13,14)
• Sergio García (13,14)
• Robert Garrigus
• Peter Hanson (13,14)
• Lee Westwood (13,14)

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

• Aaron Baddeley (13,14)
• Jonathan Byrd (13,14)
• Jason Dufner (13,14)
• Bill Haas (13,14)
• Charles Howell III
• Freddie Jacobson (13,14)
• Dustin Johnson (13,14)
• Hunter Mahan (13,14)
• Chez Reavie
• Justin Rose (13,14)
• Adam Scott (13,14)
• John Senden (13,14)
• Webb Simpson (13,14)
• Vijay Singh
• Steve Stricker (13,14)
• David Toms (13,14)
• Bo Van Pelt (13,14)
• Nick Watney (13,14)
• Mark Wilson (13,14)
• Gary Woodland

• Brandt Snedeker (13,14) withdrew with a rib injury.^[14]

13. Top 60 on the Official World Golf Ranking list as of May 21, 2012^[15]

• Bae Sang-moon (14)
• Thomas Bjørn (14)
• Rafa Cabrera-Bello (14)
• Nicolas Colsaerts (14)
• Ben Crane (14)
• Simon Dyson (14)
• Ernie Els (14)
• Gonzalo Fernández-Castaño (14)
• Rickie Fowler (14)
• Anders Hansen (14)
• Ryo Ishikawa
• Miguel Ángel Jiménez
• Zach Johnson (14)
• Robert Karlsson (14)
• Kim Kyung-tae (14)
• Martin Laird (14)
• Francesco Molinari (14)
• Kevin Na (14)
• Carl Pettersson (14)
• Ian Poulter (14)
• Álvaro Quirós (14)
• Robert Rock (14)
• Kyle Stanley (14)

• Paul Lawrie decided not to play.^[16]
• Paul Casey withdrew after a shoulder injury.^[17]

14. Top 60 on the Official World Golf Ranking list as of June 11, 2012^[18]

• Branden Grace
• Spencer Levin

15. Special exemptions selected by the USGA

• None

Qualifiers

Source:^[19]

• Japan: Hiroyuki Fujita, Brendan Jones, Lee Dong-hwan, Park Jae-bum, Tadahiro Takayama, Toru Taniguchi
• England: Matthew Baldwin, Grégory Bourdy, George Coetzee, Mikko Ilonen, Raphaël Jacquelin, Søren Kjeldsen, Peter Lawrie, Matteo Manassero, Alex Norén, Lee Slattery, Marc Warren
• United States

• Daly City, California: Michael Allen, Matt Bettencourt, Alex Čejka, James Hahn, Beau Hossler (a), Alberto Sanchez (a), Scott Smith (L)
• Lecanto, Florida: Brooks Koepka (a), Scott Langley (L), Sam Osborne (L)
• Suwanee, Georgia: Jason Bohn, Tim Weinhart, Casey Wittenberg
• Glen Ellyn, Illinois: Tim Herron, Anthony Summers
• Rockville, Maryland: Shane Bertsch, Paul Claxton, Jeff Curl (L), Cole Howard, Darron Stiles, Michael Thompson, Nicholas Thompson (L)
• Summit, New Jersey: Brian Gaffney (L), Jim Herman (L), Mark McCormick (L), Cameron Wilson (a)
• Columbus, Ohio: Blake Adams, Martin Flores, Brian Harman, Morgan Hoffmann (L), Steve LeBrun (L), Edward Loar, Davis Love III, Steve Marino, David Mathis, Dennis Miller, Jesse Mueller (L), Rod Pampling, Scott Piercy, D. A. Points, Kevin Streelman, Charlie Wi
• Springfield, Ohio: Brice Garnett, John Peterson (L)
• Creswell, Oregon: Casey Martin, Nick Sherwood (a)
• Memphis, Tennessee: Stephen Ames, Tommy Biershenk, Roberto Castro, Joe Durant, Hunter Haas, Hunter Hamrick (L), Bill Lunde, Joe Ogilvie, Aaron Watkins
• Houston, Texas: Bob Estes, Alistair Presnell, Brian Rowell

Alternates who gained entry:

• Justin Hicks (Columbus) – claimed spot held for category 14
• Colt Knost (Columbus) – claimed spot held for category 14
• Kyle Thompson (Memphis) – claimed spot held for category 14
• Jordan Spieth (a, Houston) – replaced Brandt Snedeker^[14]
• Andy Zhang (a,L, Lecanto) – replaced Paul Casey. At 14, Zhang became the youngest golfer to compete in the U.S. Open since at least World War II.^[17]

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

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, June 14, 2012

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

Source:^[20]

Second round

Friday, June 15, 2012

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

Source:^[21]

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	Jim Furyk	70-69-70=209	−1
	Graeme McDowell	69-72-68=209
3	Freddie Jacobson	72-71-68=211	+1
T4	Blake Adams	72-70-70=212	+2
	Nicolas Colsaerts	72-69-71=212
	Ernie Els	75-69-68=212
	Lee Westwood	73-72-67=212
T8	Kevin Chappell	74-71-68=213	+3
	Jason Dufner	72-71-70=213
	Beau Hossler (a)	70-73-70=213
	John Peterson	71-70-72=213
	John Senden	72-73-68=213
	Webb Simpson	72-73-68=213

Source:^[22]

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	Webb Simpson	72-73-68-68=281	+1	1,440,000
T2	Graeme McDowell (c)	69-72-68-73=282	+2	695,916
	Michael Thompson	66-75-74-67=282
T4	Jason Dufner	72-71-70-70=283	+3	276,841
	Jim Furyk (c)	70-69-70-74=283
	Pádraig Harrington	74-70-71-68=283
	John Peterson	71-70-72-70=283
	David Toms	69-70-76-68=283
9	Ernie Els (c)	75-69-68-72=284	+4	200,280
T10	Kevin Chappell	74-71-68-72=285	+5	163,594
	Retief Goosen (c)	75-70-69-71=285
	John Senden	72-73-68-72=285
	Lee Westwood	73-72-67-73=285
	Casey Wittenberg	71-77-67-70=285

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

Source:^[23][24]

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
Simpson	+3	+4	+4	+4	+5	+4	+3	+2	+2	+1	+1	+1	+1	+1	+1	+1	+1	+1
McDowell	−1	−1	E	E	+1	+2	+2	+2	+3	+3	+2	+1	+2	+3	+3	+3	+2	+2
Thompson	+5	+5	+5	+5	+4	+4	+3	+3	+4	+4	+3	+3	+3	+3	+3	+2	+2	+2
Dufner	+3	+4	+4	+4	+4	+4	+4	+4	+4	+4	+4	+3	+4	+4	+4	+4	+3	+3
Furyk	−1	−1	−1	−1	−1	E	E	E	E	E	E	E	+1	+1	+1	+2	+2	+3
Harrington	+5	+6	+6	+6	+6	+7	+6	+5	+4	+4	+4	+4	+3	+3	+3	+3	+2	+3
Peterson	+4	+4	+3	+4	+4	+4	+3	+3	+3	+2	+2	+2	+2	+2	+2	+4	+3	+3
Toms	+5	+5	+5	+5	+6	+6	+5	+5	+5	+5	+5	+4	+4	+4	+4	+4	+3	+3
Els	+2	+2	+3	+3	+3	+3	+1	+2	+3	+3	+3	+2	+2	+2	+2	+3	+3	+4
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

Source:^[25]