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The 2010 United States Open Golf Championship, the 110th edition of the U.S. Open, will be played from June 17-20 at the Pebble Beach Golf Links. It is only the fifth time that the Pebble Beach Golf Links will host the US Open and it will be the first since the year 2000. Visit this site and register and for access to watch upcoming Golf Tournaments Online. (watchgolfonline.net). Watch US golf open play off online.
It was on the fourth of October, 1895, that the first U.S. Open Championship was played, organized by the United States Golf Association on the nine-hole course of Newport (R.I.) Golf and Country Club. Sadly this was a sideshow to the first U.S. Amateur, which was played on the very same course and during the same week! Watch US golf open play off online. .
Pebble Beach one of the most famous courses in the Golf world and is the one that challenges the players to push their performances up by the proverbial notch. The most famous is of course the seventh, at a par three the 106 yards to hole from an elevated tee makes it a crucial hole on the round. The 18th at Pebble Beach could be very crucial with the Par 5 set to offer plenty of opportunities for a birdie for all those who can hit the fairway off of the tee. Watch US golf open play off online. .
In the first tournament of the US Open, of the 11 players who participated, ten were professionals and one an amateur, playing the 36-hole competition, which essentially was four trips around the Newport course in one day. Watch US golf open play off online. .
The winner which surprised everyone was an assistant at the host course Horace Rawlins, aged 21. Rawlins an English professional scored 91-82-173 with the gutta-percha ball. The prize money totaled $335, of which Rawlins won the $150 first prize. In addition he also received a gold medal and the right to custody of the Open Championship Cup for his club for one year. Watch US golf open play off online.
Jack Nicklaus is the last golfer to have won four US Open titles in his career his last coming in 1980. Jack Nicklaus or the Golden Bear as he used to be known has also a record of 11 top five finishes in the tournament. Watch US golf open play off online.
Closer to the current date is Tiger Woods with three wins in the championship. The oldest winner to date also had three victories to his credit, Hale Irwin who was 45 years and two weeks when he won the title in 1990. Irwin had won his first in 1974. The last amateur to win the Open was John Goodman, in 1933, while the youngest winner was John J. McDermott, 1911 - at an age of 19 years, 10 months, 14 days old. Watch US golf open play off online.

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