2018 U.S. Open (golf)

Lengths of the course for previous major championships:

• 6,996 yards (6,397 m), par 70 - 2004 U.S. Open
• 6,944 yards (6,350 m), par 70 - 1995 U.S. Open
• 6,912 yards (6,320 m), par 70 - 1986 U.S. Open
• 4,423 yards (4,044 m), par 70 - 1896 U.S. Open

2018 yardages by round

• Scoring average: 74.650
  • by round: 76.474, 73.595, 75.327, 72.180
• Most difficult holes in relation to par: 14, 3, 2, 10

Source:[2]

Thursday, June 14, 2018

Conditions were extremely difficult as gusty winds hung around all day with sunny skies, making the course firm and fast.[6] Only four players broke par, including Dustin Johnson, one of the tournament favorites. The scoring average for the round was 76.47.[7][8]

Place	Player	Score	To par
T1	Russell Henley	69	−1
	Dustin Johnson
	Scott Piercy
	Ian Poulter
5	Jason Dufner	70	E
T6	An Byeong-hun	71	+1
	Sam Burns
	Charley Hoffman
	Charles Howell III
	Matthieu Pavon
	Justin Rose
	Henrik Stenson

Source:[9]

Friday, June 15, 2018

Dustin Johnson held the lead after shooting a 67, four shots ahead of Charley Hoffman and Scott Piercy.[10]

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Dustin Johnson	69-67=136	−4
T2	Charley Hoffman	71-69=140	E
	Scott Piercy	69-71=140
T4	Tommy Fleetwood	75-66=141	+1
	Henrik Stenson	71-70=141
	Justin Rose	71-70=141
	Brooks Koepka	75-66=141
	Ian Poulter	69-72=141
T9	Rickie Fowler	73-69=142	+2
	Russell Henley	69-73=142

Source:[9]

Amateurs: Grimmer (+5), Gagne (+7), Parziale (+7), Thornberry (+9), Strafaci (+10), Ghim (+13), Rasmussen (+14), Hagestad (+15), Bergeron (+16), Humphrey (+16), Yu (+17), Huang (+18), Lumsden (+18), Rank (+18), Reitan (+18), Wiseman (+18), Ban (+19), Ellis (+19), Goodwin (+19), Barbaree (+21)

Saturday, June 16, 2018

Second round leader Dustin Johnson shot a seven-over 77 to fall into a four-way tie with Daniel Berger, Tony Finau and defending champion Brooks Koepka. Johnson double bogeyed the par-3 2nd and went six-over on the front-nine. He made his only birdie of the round at the 11th to get back to the top of the leaderboard, but three-putted for bogey on 18 to settle for a share of the 54-hole lead. Berger and Finau began the round in 45th place and 11 shots behind, but each shot 66 (−4) for the low round of the day.[11][12][13][14]

Scoring conditions got more difficult as the day went on. Koepka's two-over 72 was the lowest score among the final four groups. Only three rounds in the 60s were recorded, two of them by Berger and Finau. The scoring average for the round was 75.3.[15]

Phil Mickelson incurred a two-shot penalty on the 13th when he walked after his ball which was running slowly away from the hole after his putt and deliberately hit the ball backwards towards the hole while it was still moving. He ended up shooting 81 (+11), equalling his highest score at the U.S. Open.[16][17][18]

Place	Player	Score	To par
T1	Daniel Berger	76-71-66=213	+3
	Tony Finau	75-72-66=213
	Dustin Johnson	69-67-77=213
	Brooks Koepka	75-66-72=213
5	Justin Rose	71-70-73=214	+4
6	Henrik Stenson	71-70-74=215	+5
T7	Kiradech Aphibarnrat	76-72-68=216	+6
	Jim Furyk	73-71-72=216
	Patrick Reed	73-72-71=216
T10	Brian Gay	73-74-70=217	+7
	Branden Grace	76-69-72=217
	Tyrrell Hatton	75-70-72=217
	Charley Hoffman	71-69-77=217
	Dylan Meyer	77-69-71=217
	Ian Poulter	69-72-76=217

Source:[9]

Amateurs: Parziale (+11), Gagne (+12), Grimmer (+13)

Sunday, June 17, 2018

Brooks Koepka shot a final round 68 (−2) to finish one ahead of Tommy Fleetwood and win the U.S. Open for the second straight year. He was the first to successfully defend the title in 29 years, since Curtis Strange in 1989.

Koepka began the round in a four-way tie for the lead with Dustin Johnson, Daniel Berger, and Tony Finau. He got off to a good start with birdies on three of his first five holes to get to even par and take the lead. At the par-3 11th, his tee shot went into the rough over the green. After chipping into a greenside bunker, he holed a 12-foot (3.7 m) putt to save bogey. At the following hole, he made a six-foot par putt, then at the 14th he got up-and-down to save par from short of the green with an eight-foot putt. Hitting his approach at the par-5 16th to within four feet, he made the birdie to open up a two-shot lead. Despite a bogey at the 18th, Koepka held on win by one.[19]

Fleetwood shot the sixth round of 63 in U.S. Open history to finish in second. He began the round six behind and began by sinking a putt from 56 feet (17 m) at the 2nd and three more birdies on the front-nine. He made four straight birdies on holes 12–15, with putts of 17 feet (5 m) at 12, 20 feet (6 m) at 14, and 29 feet (9 m) at 15. Fleetwood had an eight-foot putt at the 18th for the first 62 in U.S. Open history, but it slid past the hole that would have forced the first two-hole playoff.[20]

Johnson made birdie at the 5th but three-putted for bogey at the 7th, 11th, 14th, and 17th. He birdied the last to shoot an even-par 70 and finish two shots behind Koepka. Finau bogeyed three of his first four holes but got back to even for the round with a 26-foot birdie at the 11th. He came to the 18th two back of Koepka but made double bogey and ended up in fifth place, four behind. Berger also started his round with two bogeys and finished with a three-over 73 to tie for sixth. Patrick Reed began three shots behind but birdied his first three holes and five of the first seven to tie for the lead. He made four bogeys the rest of the round, however, to fall back to fourth place.[21][22]

With the win, Koepka becomes the seventh player to win consecutive U.S. Opens, and the first since Curtis Strange in 1989.

Final round

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Par	4	3	4	4	5	4	3	4	4	4	3	4	4	4	4	5	3	4
Koepka	+3	+2	+1	+1	E	+1	+1	+1	+1	E	+1	+1	+1	+1	+1	E	E	+1
Fleetwood	+9	+8	+7	+7	+7	+6	+5	+5	+6	+6	+6	+5	+4	+3	+2	+2	+2	+2
Johnson	+3	+3	+3	+3	+2	+2	+3	+2	+2	+2	+3	+3	+3	+4	+3	+3	+4	+3
Reed	+5	+4	+3	+3	+2	+2	+1	+1	+2	+2	+3	+4	+4	+4	+3	+3	+3	+4
Finau	+3	+4	+5	+6	+5	+5	+6	+5	+4	+4	+3	+4	+4	+3	+3	+3	+3	+5
Berger	+3	+4	+5	+5	+4	+5	+5	+5	+5	+4	+4	+4	+4	+4	+5	+5	+6	+6
Hatton	+7	+7	+6	+6	+7	+8	+8	+7	+6	+6	+6	+6	+6	+6	+6	+6	+6	+6
Schauffele	+7	+6	+6	+6	+7	+7	+7	+6	+6	+7	+7	+6	+6	+6	+6	+6	+6	+6
Stenson	+5	+5	+5	+5	+5	+6	+6	+6	+6	+7	+7	+7	+6	+5	+5	+6	+5	+6
Rose	+4	+4	+4	+6	+7	+6	+6	+6	+6	+6	+6	+5	+5	+6	+6	+6	+7	+7

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

Birdie

Bogey

Double bogey

Source:[9]