The U.S. Open Will Return to Winged Foot in 2020

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Published: January 30, 2013

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The USGA announced on Monday that the U.S. Open will return to Winged Foot in 2020.  

Winged Foot, located 25 miles north of New York City in Westchester County, is an A.W. Tillinghast designed course which opened for play in 1923. The course has hosted five U.S. Opens, one PGA Championship, two U.S. Amateurs, two U.S. Women’s Opens and one U.S Senior Open.

''Winged Foot offers a spectacular setting in a dynamic market, and has justifiably earned its reputation as one of the premier U.S. Open venues in the nation,'' USGA Vice President Thomas O'Toole Jr. said. ''And it joins an impressive lineup of future U.S. Open Championship locations that players and fans alike can eagerly anticipate.''

Winged Foot initially arrived on the national golf stage in 1929, when, after blowing a four-stroke lead with just four holes to play, Bobby Jones sunk a miraculous downhill sliding putt on the 72nd hole to force a playoff with Al Espinosa. Jones dominated the 36-hole playoff, defeating Espinosa by 23 strokes.

In the modern era Winged Foot is most associated with Davis Love III’s PGA Championship victory, where a rainbow appeared off in the distance as Love approached the 72nd green, and of course Phil Mickelson’s epic U.S. Open meltdown on the 72nd hole in 2006.

Winged Foot is a 7,264 yard course known for its sharp doglegs, severe slopes on the greens, very difficult bunkering and, of course, incredibly thick rough.

The USGA has historically used Winged Foot’s West Course to bring the meaning of the word “difficult” to a whole new level.  

Fuzzy Zoeller was the only man to break par at a U.S. Open when he posted a four-under-par 72 hole score of 276 back in 1984.

Geoff Oglivy won the 2006 U.S. Open with a six-over-par score of 285.

The USGA has thrown two new golf courses into the U.S. Open rotation in the coming years (Chambe...
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