Veteran American golfer, Mark Calcavecchia withdrew from the US Open today after just nine holes, citing an injured left knee and foot.
Calcavecchia was 8 over for the day when he walked off of the course. This is his 20th US Open; he has withdraw or failed to make the cut 10 times.
Calcavecchia won the British Open in 1989. He has 24 PGA Tour wins, the most recent of which was the PODS Championship in 2007.
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Yesterday was a practice day at the US Open at Torrey Pines in San Diego. Here’s a sampling of what was going on:
Ernie Els and Lee Westwood signed autographs on their way to the 18th green.
Phil Mickelson worked on his short game.
The Japanese contingent, Toru Taniguchi, Ryuji Imada, and Shingo Katayama, practiced together
Tiger returned.
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It’s here. The 2008 US Open begins June 12 at Torrey Pines Golf Course in San Diego, California. About is a lay-out of the course, recent past winners, and other US Open facts.
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The field is set for the 2008 US Open, which begins at Torrey Pines in San Diego on June 12. Of the 156 golfers, 72 are exempt from qualifying. This includes eight past champions (US Open champions are exempt for 10 years.)
A record 8390 golfers applied for the remaining 84 positions. Any professional or amateur golfer with a USGA handicap of 1.4 or less is eligible to try. The first qualifying 18-hole qualifying round was held in May at 111 sites in the United States, Great Britain, and Japan. Five hundred and fifty players advanced to the second round.
The second, …read more
The USGA has announced the pairings for the first two days of the US Open at Torrey Pines, which begins June 12. The most exciting of these is the threesome of Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, and Adam Scott. They will tee-off at 806am on Thursday.
Also worth watching are K.J. Choi with Jim Furyk and Steve Stricker (at 722am); Stewart Cink with Sergio Garcia and Vijay Singh (at 1252pm); and Trevor Immelman with Zach Johnson and Mike Weir (at 103pm).
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It’s nice to see the networks are giving golf the respect the game deserves–at least for the US Open. The final two rounds of the event, held this year at Torrey Pines in La Jolla, California from June 9 – 15, will be broadcast on NBC, with round three concluding at 10pm EDT and the final round ending at 9pm EDT.
Three of the next five US Opens will take place on the West Coast, so this might just be the beginning of a trend. Let’s hope so.
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Tiger Woods announced on his Web site yesterday that he underwent successful orthoscopic surgery on his left knee yesterday in Park City, Utah. This is the third surgery that he has had on that knee and he is expected to be off for four to six weeks.
Said Woods on the site, “…I have been through this process before and I know how to handle it. I look foward to working through the rehabilition process and getting back to action as quickly as I can.” He plans to compete in the US Open, beginning on June 9.
It may have just opened in June of 2007, but Chambers Bay Golf Course in Tacoma, Washington, won’t be an unknown for long. The Scottish-style, public course will be the site of the US Open in 2015, the USGA announced this morning. It will be the first time that the Open will be played in the Pacific Northwest.
Chambers Bay, located along Lower Puget Sound, offers views of the water and the Olympic Mountains. It was rated the “Best New Course” of 2007 by “Golf Magazine” and received honors in “Travel + Leisure’s” reader’s poll.
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The PGA heads to San Diego County’s Torrey Pines Country Club this week for the Buick Invitational Golf Tournament. The event is especially noteworthy in that the Tour’s two top players–Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson–are making their season debut there. The tournament will also be good preparation for the US Open that will be played on the same course in June.
This is the first time since 2000 that a course has hosted two events. (Pebble Beach hosted the AT&T Tournament and the US Open that year.) Some are saying this takes away from the excitement and mystique of …read more
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