32-665: Shinnecock Hills Golf Club is a links -style golf club located in an unincorporated area of the Town of Southampton on Long Island, New York , situated between the Peconic Bay and the Atlantic Ocean . Shinnecock Hills is believed to be the oldest incorporated golf club in the United States (1891), to have the oldest golf clubhouse in the U.S. (1892), and to have been the first American golf club to admit women members, which it did from
64-414: A bid to become the oldest major champion in history. He was joined at the lead by Shigeki Maruyama and Ángel Cabrera . Two-time major champion Vijay Singh shot a solid 68, as did current Masters champion Phil Mickelson . Former U.S. Open champions Ernie Els and Retief Goosen shot an even-par 70 after rough starts. World Number 1 Tiger Woods struggled on Shinnecock's fast conditions and settled for
96-581: A controlled style of golf, as hazards abound. Low and even bouncing shots allow balls to be skipped onto greens rather than high flights landed with strong backspin. Windy or blustery weather also calls for low, accurate shots. Damp conditions demand concentration and caution. As many traditional links courses consist of an "outward" nine in one direction along the coast, and an opposite "inward" nine returning, players often have to cope with contrasting wind patterns in each half of their round. 2004 U.S. Open (golf) The 2004 United States Open Championship
128-418: A fairway landing. Often players will land the ball well before the green and allow it to run up onto the green rather than landing it on the green in the more targeted-landing style used on softer surfaces. Links courses tend to be on, or at least very near to, a coast, and the term is typically associated with coastal courses, often amid dunes, with few water hazards and few, if any, trees. This reflects both
160-737: A firmer playing surface than parkland and heathland courses. The word "links" comes via the Scots language from the Old English word hlinc : "rising ground, ridge" and refers to an area of coastal sand dunes and sometimes to open parkland; it is cognate with lynchet . "Links" can be treated as singular even though it has an "s" at the end and occurs in place names that precede the development of golf, for example Lundin Links in Fife. It also retains this more general meaning in standard Scottish English . Links land
192-645: A golf course near New York City . Meade, known for his cowboy-ish antics trading commodities, was convinced that upstate New York would be the ideal location, but Cryder preferred a parcel of land in Yonkers . Ultimately, they chose the sandhills adjoining the Long Island Rail Road just east of the Shinnecock Canal . The 80-acre (32 ha) original parcel was purchased from developers for $ 2,500 and 44 original members signed up for $ 100 each. Willie Davis ,
224-604: A national championship at Newport, Rhode Island , but this victory was not recognized as official. Later in 1894, Shinnecock Hills was one of five founding clubs of the United States Golf Association , established in New York City. The new USGA held the first U.S. Open in 1895 in Newport , Rhode Island . In 1896 the then–5,000 yd (4,570 m) Shinnecock hosted the second U.S. Open . Many players broke 80 in
256-403: A round of 67. Jeff Maggert was in solo third at five-under-par with a 67, while Fred Funk and Retief Goosen both shot 66 to tie for fourth. Ángel Cabrera had a crazy day after a 66 to shoot a 71. Corey Pavin , the previous champion at Shinnecock in 1995 , tied with Vijay Singh at four strokes back. Tiger Woods shot 69 for 141 (+1), tied for 18th. World Number 4 Davis Love III missed
288-425: A tie for fourth. World number two Els, joint second overnight with Mickelson, produced four double-bogeys on his way to an 80 (+10), his worst score in a U.S. Open, and tied for ninth at 287. Top-ranked Tiger Woods , who began nine shots off the lead, battled to a 76 and a share of 17th place. A mix of five bogeys, a double-bogey and a birdie at the last left him at 290 (+10) as he narrowly avoided his worst round at
320-410: A two-over-par 72. David Duval shot an 83, the worst round in the field, but was in high spirits afterwards. Source: Friday, June 18, 2004 Phil Mickelson surged into the lead, trying to become the sixth to win the first two majors of the year, with a bogey-free 66. He tied for the lead with Shigeki Maruyama , who bogeyed the 18th hole and shot 68. Ernie Els had four consecutive birdies in
352-762: Is a links course in Adelaide , South Australia , and was partly designed by Alister MacKenzie , who said of the location, "One finds a most delightful combination of sand dunes and fir trees. I have never seen a seaside course possess such magnificent sand craters, as those at Royal Adelaide." The unique nature of links courses necessitates a distinct style of play. The challenges links traits present fall into two categories: topography, which tends to be characterised by uneven fairways, thick rough, and small, deep "pot bunkers "; and climatic, dominated by windy conditions created by their coastal location and lack of trees, and frequent intermittent rain squalls. Links topography favours
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#1732858221442384-537: Is one of the main features which differentiates it from the three major championships held in the United States . The first exception to this was the 2004 PGA Championship , which was played on a links-style course, Whistling Straits , located near Sheboygan , Wisconsin . The 2015 U.S. Open was played at Chambers Bay , a British links-style course in University Place , Washington . Royal Adelaide Golf Club
416-403: Is routinely ranked as one of the greatest golf courses in the world. The club traces its roots to an 1889–1890 trip by William K. Vanderbilt , Edward Meade, and Duncan Cryder, to Biarritz in southern France where they encountered champion golfer Willie Dunn , from Scotland , who was building a golf course at the resort. Back in the United States, Meade and Cryder scouted for a place for
448-428: Is typically characterised by dunes, an undulating surface, and a sandy soil unsuitable for arable farming but which readily supports various indigenous browntop bent and red fescue grasses. Together, the soil and grasses result in the firm turf associated with links courses and the "running" game. The hard surface typical of the links-style course allows balls to "run" out much farther than on softer turf course after
480-445: The 36-hole event, which led to demands to increase the course's difficulty. Participating in the 1896 Open was black professional player John Shippen , believed by many historians to have been the first USA-born golf professional. In 1901 the ladies' course was incorporated into a lengthened and redesigned course by Charles B. Macdonald and Seth Raynor , retaining five of Dunn's original holes. William Flynn extensively redesigned
512-470: The 7th green when players were not able to prevent the ball from rolling off. As a result, the leaders faced much easier playing conditions than the rest of the field and the final 5 groups had a scoring average of 75.9, compared to the field's 78.7, including 3 of the 5 lowest rounds of the day. Jeff Maggert (72) finished third at one-over 281, while 2003 Masters champion Mike Weir (74) and Shigeki Maruyama (76) were three shots further back at 284 in
544-399: The best of the day; Tiger Woods eagled the 18th for 73 and Vijay Singh stumbled with a 77. Source: Sunday, June 20, 2004 Retief Goosen held his nerve and won his second U.S. Open, edging out Phil Mickelson by two shots with a closing 71 (+1) on Sunday to finish at four-under 276. Conditions were brutal on the final day when the average final-round score was 78.7 and no one
576-606: The club professional from the Royal Montreal Club , designed a 12-hole course that opened in late summer 1891. Members of the Shinnecock Indian Nation helped build the course, which sits on the large expanse of land the Nation claims was illegally taken from them by earlier settlers of the area in 1859. At the 2018 U.S. Open, members of the Nation protested the event, noting that several burial sites were desecrated during
608-507: The course in 1931 into a 6,740-yard (6,163 m) configuration. Flynn's design retains five of the holes by Macdonald and Raynor, and the green of a sixth hole designed by those two. Prior to the 2004 U.S. Open , the course was extended to a length of 6,996 yards (6,397 m) by the addition of extra tees. Shinnecock Hills was ranked second in Golf Digest ' s 100 Greatest Courses Ranking for 2007, 2008, and third in 2009. Its routing
640-474: The courses' construction. Stanford White designed the 1892 clubhouse, said to be the oldest golf clubhouse in the United States. A nine-hole ladies-only course was designed and built at Shinnecock Hills in 1893, the first ladies’ golf course in American history. In 1894, Dunn arrived and added six more holes bringing the total to 18. That same year Dunn won the tournament which was an inaugural attempt to establish
672-405: The cut, as did David Duval . Jay Haas (E) and amateur Bill Haas (+5) were the second father and son to make the cut in the same U.S. Open; it was first accomplished 56 years earlier in 1948 by Joe Kirkwood Sr. and Joe Kirkwood Jr. Source: Saturday, June 19, 2004 Retief Goosen battled his way into a two-shot lead on Saturday as Shinnecock Hills presented its stiffest test of
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#1732858221442704-2156: The final round three shots behind and shot a 66 in difficult scoring conditions to win his fourth major . The conditions were similar in 1995, with no one under par. Pavin played the final ten holes in three-under-par on the way to a 68 and the win. He hit a memorable 4-wood to the 72nd green to within 5 feet (1.5 m) and finished at even par 280. Lengths of the course for previous major championships: Ernie Els (4,8,9,10,11,13,16), Jim Furyk (8,9,16), Retief Goosen (9,10,16), Lee Janzen , Corey Pavin , Tiger Woods (3,4,5,9,11,12,16) Nick Flanagan (a), Casey Wittenberg (a) Phil Mickelson (11,16), Vijay Singh (9,11,12,16), Mike Weir (8,9,16) Ben Curtis (16), David Duval , Paul Lawrie Rich Beem , Shaun Micheel (16), David Toms (8,9,12,16) Adam Scott (10,11,12,16) Jonathan Byrd , Tom Byrum , Pádraig Harrington (10,16), Freddie Jacobson (10,16), Jonathan Kaye (9,12,16), Cliff Kresge , Stephen Leaney (10,16), Billy Mayfair , Kenny Perry (9,12,16), Tim Petrovic , Nick Price (9,16), Eduardo Romero , Justin Rose , Hidemichi Tanaka , Scott Verplank (9,16) Robert Allenby (16), Stuart Appleby (11,16), Briny Baird , Chad Campbell (11,16), K. J. Choi (16), Chris DiMarco (16), Brad Faxon (16), Steve Flesch (11,12,16), Fred Funk , Jay Haas (16), Tim Herron , Charles Howell III (16), Jerry Kelly (16), Justin Leonard (16), J. L. Lewis , Davis Love III (11,16), Chris Riley (16), Kirk Triplett (16), Bob Tway (16) Thomas Bjørn (16), Michael Campbell , Paul Casey (16), Darren Clarke (13,16), Brian Davis , Trevor Immelman (16), Ian Poulter , Phillip Price , Lee Westwood Stewart Cink (16) Toshimitsu Izawa Peter Lonard (16) Stephen Ames , Ángel Cabrera , Fred Couples , Sergio García , Todd Hamilton , Joakim Haeggman , Scott Hoch , Miguel Ángel Jiménez , Zach Johnson , Shigeki Maruyama , Craig Parry Raymond Floyd Thursday, June 17, 2004 Fifty-year-old Jay Haas led after one round, in
736-507: The grass cropped. Although the term links is often used loosely to describe any golf course, few golf courses have all of the design elements of true links courses, including being built on linksland. The presence of a seaside location does not guarantee a links golf course. Many famous courses regarded as links do not, as presently constituted, have all of the necessary characteristics (e.g., Pebble Beach Golf Links , Old Head Golf Links at Kinsale , The Ocean Course at Kiawah Island ). On
768-428: The nature of the scenery where the sport originated and the limited resources available to golf course architects at that time. Soil movement, for example, had to be done by hand, and thus was kept to a minimum, as was irrigation. Even today, some links courses do not employ a greens staff, use only basic machinery such as hole cutters without boards, resulting in a hole that is cut unevenly, and use grazing animals to keep
800-619: The other hand, some courses located hundreds of miles from a seacoast, such as Whistling Straits , near Kohler , Wisconsin , on the Great Lakes , can have all of the characteristics of a seaside links except for proximity to saltwater. Links courses remain most common in Great Britain , especially in Scotland, as well as in Ireland. The Open Championship is always played on links courses, and this
832-448: The par-3 17th. Goosen's previous U.S. Open win was in 2001 in a playoff at Southern Hills . This was the fourth U.S. Open hosted by Shinnecock Hills. The former champions were James Foulis ( 1896 ), Raymond Floyd (1986) , and Corey Pavin (1995) . The second U.S. Open was held at Shinnecock in 1896, but ninety years went by before it hosted again. The 1986 edition was held on a completely revamped course. Floyd, age 43, entered
864-478: The start. It is also the only golf course to host the U.S. Open in three different centuries. Shinnecock Hills is a founding member of the United States Golf Association . It has hosted several important events, notably five U.S. Opens , most recently being the 2018 event won by Brooks Koepka . It is scheduled to host a sixth in 2026. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. It
896-437: The week. He held his nerve in challenging conditions to card a one-under 69 for 205 (−5), and was one of only three to break par. Second round leader Phil Mickelson bogeyed the last two holes for a share of second place with two-time champion Ernie Els . Fred Funk and Shigeki Maruyama both had crazy days, finishing poorly for a tie for fourth. Jeff Maggert 's 74 dropped him into a tie for sixth with Tim Clark , who had 66,
928-449: The year, immediately fell back with a double-bogey at the par-three 17th, three-putting from five feet (1.5 m). In the final pair with compatriot Ernie Els , Goosen restored his two-shot advantage with a twelve-foot (3.7 m) birdie putt on 16 and parred the final two holes to seal the title. In a nearly unprecedented action, the USGA watered a few of the greens during play including
960-401: Was under par. Mickelson, urged on by raucous New York galleries on a windswept sunny afternoon, completed a matching 71 for his third runner-up spot in the last six U.S. Opens. Goosen led by two going into the final day, but was overtaken by Mickelson in the closing stretch, with back-to-back birdies on 15 and 16. But Mickelson, bidding to become the sixth player to win the first two majors of
992-519: Was retained, and several new tees were added, in preparation for the 2018 U.S. Open; the course was extended to 7,440 yards, retaining its par of 70. Shinnecock Hills is scheduled to host the 2026 U.S. Open. The club also maintains a nine-hole secondary course for use by its members. Sources : Links (golf) A links is the oldest style of golf course , first developed in Scotland . Links courses are generally built on sandy coastland that offers
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1024-478: Was the 104th U.S. Open , held June 17–20 at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club in Shinnecock Hills, New York . Retief Goosen won his second U.S. Open title, two strokes ahead of runner-up Phil Mickelson , the reigning Masters champion. The purse was $ 6.25 million with a winner's share of $ 1.125 million. Late on Sunday in dry and breezy conditions, Goosen birdied the 16th hole and Mickelson double-bogeyed
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