U.S. Open preview 060724Open numbers

Pinehurst by the numbersThe most important numbers associated with Pinehurst this week will be the scores that U.S. Open competitors post after their rounds on the resort’s iconic No. 2 course. But as we prepare for this week’s national championship, it is also worth considering some other figures as they relate to the place in the North Carolina Sandhills that is often referred to as the “home of American golf”:5,860Distance, in yards, that the Donald Ross-designed No. 2 played when it opened in 19077,540Distance, in yards, that the course will play this week for the 124th U.S. Open13With the 124th U.S. Open, the number of USGA championships to be played at Pinehurst.175Number of USGA championships hosted on a Donald Ross golf course1,000Number of championships that the USGA will have conducted with this year’s U.S. Open26Number of U.S. Opens played on a Donald Ross track (in addition to Pinehurst No. 2, those sites include Inverness in Toledo, Ohio; Oak Hill in Rochester, New York; Congressional in Bethesda, Maryland; Scioto in Columbus, Ohio; and Oakland Hills in Birmingham, Michigan)1900Year when Donald Ross assumed the position of golf professional at the Pinehurst resort7Number of U.S. Opens Ross played. He recorded four top-10 finishes in those tournaments, including in 1907 when his younger brother Alec won at Philadelphia Cricket Club400Estimated number of courses that Donald Ross, a native of Dornoch, Scotland, crafted in a design career that began in 1900 and ended with his death in Pinehurst in 1948 at age 751935Year when Pinehurst No. 2’s original square-shaped greens were converted from sand to grass and assumed their modern form1Number of PGA Tour events that New Zealand’s Michael Campbell won during his career: the 2005 Open on Pinehurst No. 28Margin of victory for Martin Kaymer at the 2014 U.S. Open at Pinehurst25Years ago that Payne Stewart won the first U.S. Open held at Pinehurst (four months after holing a 15-foot birdie putt on the 72nd hole to hold off Phil Mickelson, Stewart died in a plane accident)4Number of U.S. Opens scheduled to be held on Pinehurst No. 2 in coming years: 2029, 2035, 2041 and 2047John Steinbreder and USGA research
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