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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. Enjoy Golf? Visit this site and register and for access to watch upcoming Golf Tournaments Online. (watchgolfonline.net) 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. Of the players taking part approximately half the field consists of players who are exempted from qualifying. Watch US Open golf tournament 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!
Both these championships were originally scheduled for September but had to be postponed because of a conflict the America's Cup yacht races. Watch US Open golf tournament online
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. 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. Watch US Open golf tournament online.
Located on the Pacific coast of California lies the Pebble Beach Golf Links a notoriously tough course with many of the holes along the rocky coastline. The US Open has been played at this venue in 1972, 1982, 1992 and 2000. Jack Nicklaus won the event in 1972 held there and Tiger Woods was the last winner at the course in 2000, winning by a US Open record 15 strokes. If Tiger Woods can put aside the incidents of his personal life he will easily be the man to beat at the 110th edition of the US Open. 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. Watch US Open golf tournament online.
The tournament favorite for this year's US Open is without a doubt Phil Mickelson especially since the big question that hangs over the Tiger Woods game. Mickelson was the runner up last year while he has had a record of three wins at Pebble Beach the venue of this year's US Open. Tiger Woods is indeed an uncertainty given his personal circumstances; he could be the dark horse of the tournament. Lee Westwood is seen in the top most elite tournaments and his form over the past two years. With seven top ten finishes in 2010 he is sure to be there in the top five. Watch US Open golf tournament online.
The historic assault by Jack Nicklaus' on the history book of the professional's record keepers began when he won the first of his four U.S. Open Championships in 1962, which was his rookie season as a professional. Jack Nicklaus, who also won in 1967, 1972, and 1980, is one of only four golfers to win four U.S. Opens. The others are Willie Anderson (1901, 1903, 1904, 1905), Bobby Jones (1923, 1926, 1929, 1930) and Ben Hogan (1948, 1950, 1951, 1953). Watch US Open golf tournament online.

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