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| Tournament information | |
|---|---|
| Dates | June 12–15, 2014 |
| Location | Pinehurst, North Carolina |
| Course(s) | Pinehurst Resort, Course No. 2 |
| Organized by | USGA |
| Tour(s) | PGA Tour European Tour Japan Golf Tour |
| Statistics | |
| Par | 70 |
| Length | 7,562 yards (6,915 m) |
| Field | 156 players, 67 after cut |
| Cut | 145 (+5) |
| Prize fund | $9,000,000 €6,665,578 |
| Winner's share | $1,620,000 €1,199,804[1] |
| Champion | |
 Martin Kaymer | |
| 271 (−9) | |
The2014 United States Open Championship was the 114thU.S. Open, played June 12–15 at the No. 2 Course of thePinehurst Resort inPinehurst, North Carolina.[2]
Martin Kaymer led wire-to-wire to win his first U.S. Open and secondmajor title, eight strokes ahead of runners-upErik Compton andRickie Fowler. He was the first to open a major with two rounds of 65 or better, and set a U.S. Open record for lowest 36-hole score at 130. FromGermany, Kaymer was the first fromcontinentalEurope to win the U.S. Open and the fourth European winner in five years.
This was the third U.S. Open played at Pinehurst's No. 2 Course and first after the 2010 Coore & Crenshaw restoration which stripped the course of all of its rough and returned it to its original design. The past champions were:Payne Stewart in1999 andMichael Campbell in2005. Designed byDonald Ross, the No. 2 Course opened in 1907 and also hosted thePGA Championship in1936 and theRyder Cup in1951. The course hosted the2014 U.S. Women's Open the following week, the first time the two championships were played on the same course in the same year.[3]
Course No. 2
| Hole | Yards | Par | Hole | Yards | Par | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 402 | 4 | 10 | 617 | 5 | |
| 2 | 507 | 4 | 11 | 483 | 4 | |
| 3 | 387 | 4 | 12 | 484 | 4 | |
| 4 | 529 | 4 | 13 | 382 | 4 | |
| 5 | 576 | 5 | 14 | 473 | 4 | |
| 6 | 219 | 3 | 15 | 202 | 3 | |
| 7 | 424 | 4 | 16 | 528 | 4 | |
| 8 | 502 | 4 | 17 | 205 | 3 | |
| 9 | 191 | 3 | 18 | 451 | 4 | |
| Out | 3,737 | 35 | In | 3,825 | 35 | |
| Source:[4] | Total | 7,562 | 70 | |||
Lengths of the course for previous U.S. Opens:
A record 10,127 entries were received.[5]
About half the field consisted of players who were exempt from qualifying for the U.S. Open.[6] Each player is classified according to the first category in which he qualified, and other categories are shown in parentheses.
1. Winners of theU.S. Open Championship during the last ten years
2. Winner and runner-up of the 2013U.S. Amateur Championship
3. Winner of the 2013Amateur Championship
4. Winner of the 2013Mark H. McCormack Medal (men'sWorld Amateur Golf Ranking)
5. Winners of theMasters Tournament during the last five years
6. Winners ofThe Open Championship during the last five years
7. Winners of thePGA Championship during the last five years
8. Winners ofThe Players Championship during the last three years
9. Winner of the 2014 European TourBMW PGA Championship
10. Winner of the 2013U.S. Senior Open Championship
11. The 10 lowest scorers and anyone tying for 10th place at the2013 U.S. Open Championship
12. Players who qualified for the season-ending 2013Tour Championship
13. The top 60 point leaders and ties as of May 26, 2014, in theOfficial World Golf Ranking
14. The top 60 point leaders and ties as of June 9, 2014, in the Official World Golf Ranking
15. Special exemptions given by theUSGA
The remaining contestants earned their places through sectional qualifiers.[11]
Alternates who earned entry:
(a) denotes amateur
(L) denotes player advanced through local qualifying
Thursday, June 12, 2014
Martin Kaymer led the field after shooting a five-under-par 65. He led a group of four golfers, including 2010 championGraeme McDowell, by three strokes. Only 15 players shot under-par rounds. Defending championJustin Rose shot 72.[15][16] The scoring average for the field was 73.23, more than three strokes over par.[17]
Friday, June 13, 2014
Martin Kaymer recorded a second consecutive round of 65 (−5), establishing a new tournament record for lowest 36-hole score (130) and becoming the first player to open a major championship with two rounds of 65 or better.[18] His six-stroke lead overBrendon Todd after 36 holes tied a tournament record previously set byTiger Woods in2000 andRory McIlroy in2011.[19] 21 players shot under-par rounds and 13 players were under-par for the tournament. The cut was at 145 (+5) and 67 players made the cut including one amateur, 2013U.S. Amateur winnerMatt Fitzpatrick. The scoring average for the field was 72.89, just less than three strokes over par.[20]
| Place | Player | Score | To par |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Martin Kaymer | 65-65=130 | −10 |
| 2 |  Brendon Todd | 69-67=136 | −4 |
| T3 | Kevin Na | 68-69=137 | −3 |
| Brandt Snedeker | 69-68=137 | ||
| T5 | Keegan Bradley | 69-69=138 | −2 |
 Brendon de Jonge | 68-70=138 | ||
| Dustin Johnson | 69-69=138 | ||
| Brooks Koepka | 70-68=138 | ||
 Henrik Stenson | 69-69=138 | ||
| T10 | Chris Kirk | 71-68=139 | −1 |
| Matt Kuchar | 69-70=139 | ||
 Rory McIlroy | 71-68=139 | ||
| Jordan Spieth | 69-70=139 |
Amateurs:Fitzpatrick (+4),Campbell (+6),Stewart (+6),Whitsett (+6),Wilson (+8),McNealy (+10),Shelton (+13),Goss (+14),McIver (+15),Grimmer (+17),Dorn (+19)
Saturday, June 14, 2014
Kaymer dropped back towards the field, shooting a 2-over-par 72 but still led by five strokes on a tougher scoring day.[21]Erik Compton andRickie Fowler shot the only sub-par rounds, both shooting 67 (−3) to move into a tie for second place.[22] Only six golfers remained under-par for the tournament. The scoring average for the field was 73.82, almost four strokes over par.[23]
| Place | Player | Score | To par |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Martin Kaymer | 65-65-72=202 | −8 |
| T2 | Erik Compton | 72-68-67=207 | −3 |
| Rickie Fowler | 70-70-67=207 | ||
| T4 | Dustin Johnson | 69-69-70=208 | −2 |
| Henrik Stenson | 69-69-70=208 | ||
| 6 | Brandt Snedeker | 69-68-72=209 | −1 |
| T7 | Brooks Koepka | 70-68-72=210 | E |
| Matt Kuchar | 69-70-71=210 | ||
| Kevin Na | 68-69-73=210 | ||
| T10 | Brendon de Jonge | 68-70-73=211 | +1 |
| Chris Kirk | 71-68-72=211 | ||
 Justin Rose | 72-69-70=211 | ||
| Jordan Spieth | 69-70-72=211 |
Sunday, June 15, 2014
Kaymer shot a 69 in the final round to win by eight strokes over Compton and Fowler. His 72-hole score of 271 was the second-lowest in U.S. Open history.[24] This was his second major championship and also made him the fourth European winner of the event in five years (afterGraeme McDowell,Rory McIlroy andJustin Rose) having previously had no European winners sinceTony Jacklin in 1970.[25] Eleven golfers shot under-par rounds but none in the last eight groups except Kaymer.[26] Only three golfers finished under-par for the tournament. The scoring average for the field was 72.40, the lowest of any rounds.[27][28]
| Champion |
| Silver Cup winner (leading amateur) |
| (a) = amateur |
| (c) = past champion |
| Place | Player | Score | To par | Money ($) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Martin Kaymer | 65-65-72-69=271 | −9 | 1,620,000 |
| T2 | Erik Compton | 72-68-67-72=279 | −1 | 789,330 |
| Rickie Fowler | 70-70-67-72=279 | |||
| T4 | Keegan Bradley | 69-69-76-67=281 | +1 | 326,310 |
 Jason Day | 73-68-72-68=281 | |||
| Dustin Johnson | 69-69-70-73=281 | |||
| Brooks Koepka | 70-68-72-71=281 | |||
| Henrik Stenson | 69-69-70-73=281 | |||
| T9 | Adam Scott | 73-67-73-69=282 | +2 | 211,715 |
| Brandt Snedeker | 69-68-72-73=282 | |||
| Jimmy Walker | 70-72-71-69=282 |
| Leaderboard below the top 10 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Place | Player | Score | To par | Money ($) | |
| T12 | Jim Furyk (c) | 73-70-73-67=283 | +3 | 156,679 | |
| Matt Kuchar | 69-70-71-73=283 | ||||
| Kevin Na | 68-69-73-73=283 | ||||
| Justin Rose (c) | 72-69-70-72=283 | ||||
| Marcel Siem | 70-71-72-70=283 | ||||
| T17 | J. B. Holmes | 70-71-72-71=284 | +4 | 118,234 | |
| Ian Poulter | 70-70-74-70=284 | ||||
| Jordan Spieth | 69-70-72-73=284 | ||||
| Brendon Todd | 69-67-79-69=284 | ||||
| T21 | Cody Gribble | 72-72-72-69=285 | +5 | 95,598 | |
| Steve Stricker | 70-71-73-71=285 | ||||
| T23 | Aaron Baddeley | 70-71-73-72=286 | +6 | 79,968 | |
| Billy Horschel | 75-68-73-70=286 | ||||
 Shiv Kapur | 73-70-71-72=286 | ||||
| Rory McIlroy (c) | 71-68-74-73=286 | ||||
 Francesco Molinari | 69-71-72-74=286 | ||||
| T28 | Daniel Berger | 72-71-78-66=287 | +7 | 59,588 | |
| Brendon de Jonge | 68-70-73-76=287 | ||||
 Victor Dubuisson | 70-72-70-75=287 | ||||
| Chris Kirk | 71-68-72-76=287 | ||||
| Graeme McDowell (c) | 68-74-75-70=287 | ||||
| Phil Mickelson | 70-73-72-72=287 | ||||
| Kenny Perry | 74-69-74-70=287 | ||||
| T35 |  Ernie Els (c) | 74-70-72-72=288 | +8 | 46,803 | |
 Sergio García | 73-71-72-72=288 | ||||
| Bill Haas | 72-72-71-73=288 | ||||
 Hideki Matsuyama | 69-71-74-74=288 | ||||
| Patrick Reed | 71-72-73-72=288 | ||||
| T40 |  Lucas Bjerregaard | 70-72-72-75=289 | +9 | 37,754 | |
| Zac Blair | 71-74-73-71=289 | ||||
| Zach Johnson | 71-74-72-72=289 | ||||
| Garth Mulroy | 71-72-70-76=289 | ||||
| Louis Oosthuizen | 71-73-78-67=289 | ||||
| T45 | Retief Goosen (c) | 73-71-71-75=290 | +10 | 30,828 | |
| Webb Simpson (c) | 71-72-73-74=290 | ||||
| Danny Willett | 70-71-78-71=290 | ||||
| T48 | Harris English | 69-75-75-72=291 | +11 | 26,504 | |
| Matt Fitzpatrick (a) | 71-73-78-69=291 | 0 | |||
| Billy Hurley III | 71-74-75-71=291 | 26,504 | |||
| Ryan Moore | 76-68-71-76=291 | ||||
| T52 |  Noh Seung-yul | 70-72-76-74=292 | +12 | 24,514 | |
| Gary Woodland | 72-71-75-74=292 | ||||
| T54 | Stewart Cink | 72-72-74-75=293 | +13 | 23,535 | |
| Scott Langley | 72-71-75-75=293 | ||||
| T56 | Paul Casey | 70-75-74-75=294 | +14 | 22,649 | |
| Nicholas Lindheim | 72-73-72-77=294 | ||||
| Fran Quinn | 68-74-79-73=294 | ||||
| 59 | Justin Leonard | 75-70-75-75=295 | +15 | 22,090 | |
| T60 | Alex Čejka | 73-71-77-76=297 | +17 | 21,564 | |
| Russell Henley | 70-74-82-71=297 | ||||
| Kevin Tway | 72-72-81-72=297 | ||||
| T63 | Clayton Rask | 73-71-77-77=298 | +18 | 20,775 | |
| Kevin Stadler | 77-68-78-75=298 | ||||
| Bo Van Pelt | 72-72-75-79=298 | ||||
| 66 | Boo Weekley | 71-73-80-75=299 | +19 | 20,249 | |
| 67 | Toru Taniguchi | 72-73-88-76=309 | +29 | 19,980 | |
| CUT |  Ángel Cabrera (c) | 74-72=146 | +6 | ||
| Brian Campbell (a) | 76-70=146 | ||||
| Matt Dobyns | 74-72=146 | ||||
| Luke Donald | 77-69=146 | ||||
| Jason Dufner | 72-74=146 | ||||
 Andrés Echavarría | 74-72=146 | ||||
 Thongchai Jaidee | 73-73=146 | ||||
| Miguel Ángel Jiménez | 72-74=146 | ||||
| Matt Jones | 74-72=146 | ||||
| Lee Kyoung-hoon | 74-72=146 | ||||
 Shane Lowry | 73-73=146 | ||||
 Joost Luiten | 70-76=146 | ||||
| Hunter Mahan | 74-72=146 | ||||
| Rod Pampling | 73-73=146 | ||||
| Charl Schwartzel | 70-76=146 | ||||
| Hunter Stewart (a) | 75-71=146 | ||||
| Hudson Swafford | 76-70=146 | ||||
| Bubba Watson | 76-70=146 | ||||
| Cory Whitsett (a) | 77-69=146 | ||||
| Mark Wilson | 70-76=146 | ||||
| Casey Wittenberg | 74-72=146 | ||||
| Ryan Blaum | 73-74=147 | +7 | |||
| Darren Clarke | 75-72=147 | ||||
 Nicolas Colsaerts | 72-75=147 | ||||
 Chris Doak | 74-73=147 | ||||
| Ken Duke | 75-72=147 | ||||
| Luke Guthrie | 73-74=147 | ||||
| Stephen Gallacher | 73-74=147 | ||||
| Geoff Ogilvy (c) | 73-74=147 | ||||
| Andrea Pavan | 75-72=147 | ||||
| Jim Renner | 74-73=147 | ||||
| John Senden | 71-76=147 | ||||
| David Toms | 73-74=147 | ||||
| Roberto Castro | 74-74=148 | +8 | |||
| Chad Collins | 74-74=148 | ||||
| Matt Every | 76-72=148 | ||||
| Lucas Glover (c) | 79-69=148 | ||||
| David Gossett | 76-72=148 | ||||
 Liang Wenchong | 74-74=148 | ||||
| Sam Love | 76-72=148 | ||||
| Ryan Palmer | 74-74=148 | ||||
| Brian Stuard | 75-73=148 | ||||
| Justin Thomas | 75-73=148 | ||||
| Nick Watney | 76-72=148 | ||||
| Lee Westwood | 75-73=148 | ||||
| Cameron Wilson (a) | 78-70=148 | ||||
| Craig Barlow | 74-75=149 | +9 | |||
| Oliver Fisher | 74-75=149 | ||||
| Smylie Kaufman | 73-76=149 | ||||
| Pablo Larrazábal | 71-78=149 | ||||
| Tom Lewis | 79-70=149 | ||||
| Henrik Norlander | 70-79=149 | ||||
| Joe Ogilvie | 73-76=149 | ||||
| Anthony Broussard | 78-72=150 | +10 | |||
 Graham DeLaet | 75-75=150 | ||||
| Niclas Fasth | 76-74=150 | ||||
| Maximilian Kieffer | 76-74=150 | ||||
| Kim Hyung-sung | 73-77=150 | ||||
| Maverick McNealy (a) | 74-76=150 | ||||
| Kevin Sutherland | 75-75=150 | ||||
 Bernd Wiesberger | 72-78=150 | ||||
 Jamie Donaldson | 70-81=151 | +11 | |||
| David Oh | 75-76=151 | ||||
| D. A. Points | 77-74=151 | ||||
| Brett Stegmaier | 77-74=151 | ||||
| Graeme Storm | 72-79=151 | ||||
| Brady Watt | 77-74=151 | ||||
| Yang Yong-eun | 75-76=151 | ||||
 Steven Alker | 76-76=152 | +12 | |||
| Robert Allenby | 79-73=152 | ||||
| Gonzalo Fernández-Castaño | 76-76=152 | ||||
| Simon Griffiths | 72-80=152 | ||||
| Kevin Kisner | 75-77=152 | ||||
| Rob Oppenheim | 75-77=152 | ||||
| Aron Price | 78-74=152 | ||||
| Kevin Streelman | 75-77=152 | ||||
| Jonas Blixt | 77-76=153 | +13 | |||
| Jeff Maggert | 73-80=153 | ||||
| Nick Mason | 78-75=153 | ||||
| Robby Shelton (a) | 78-75=153 | ||||
| Oliver Goss (a) | 71-83=154 | +14 | |||
| Chris Thompson | 80-74=154 | ||||
| Donald Constable | 82-73=155 | +15 | |||
| Bobby Gates | 79-76=155 | ||||
| Brandon McIver (a) | 82-73=155 | ||||
| Will Grimmer (a) | 77-80=157 | +17 | |||
| Andrew Dorn (a) | 79-80=159 | +19 | |||
| Azuma Yano | 77-83=160 | +20 | |||
| Kiyoshi Miyazato | 81-81=162 | +22 | |||
Final round
| Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Par | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 |
| Kaymer | −8 | −8 | −9 | −9 | −9 | −9 | −8 | −8 | −9 | −8 | −8 | −8 | −9 | −10 | −10 | −9 | −9 | −9 |
| Fowler | −3 | −3 | −3 | −1 | −2 | −2 | −2 | −2 | −1 | −1 | E | −1 | −2 | −2 | −2 | −2 | −1 | −1 |
| Compton | −3 | −3 | −3 | −3 | −4 | −4 | −3 | −4 | −3 | −4 | −3 | −2 | −2 | −2 | −1 | −1 | −1 | −1 |
| Bradley | +4 | +4 | +3 | +3 | +3 | +3 | +4 | +4 | +3 | +2 | +2 | +3 | +1 | +1 | +1 | +1 | +1 | +1 |
| Day | +3 | +2 | +2 | +2 | +2 | +2 | +2 | +2 | +2 | +2 | +2 | +2 | +1 | +1 | E | E | E | +1 |
| Johnson | −2 | −2 | −2 | −2 | −2 | −2 | −2 | −1 | −1 | −2 | −2 | −2 | −2 | −2 | −1 | E | +1 | +1 |
| Koepka | +1 | +1 | E | E | E | E | E | E | E | E | E | +1 | +2 | +2 | +2 | +2 | +2 | +1 |
| Stenson | −2 | −2 | −3 | −2 | −2 | −2 | −2 | −1 | −1 | −1 | E | E | +1 | +1 | +1 | +2 | +1 | +1 |
Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par
| Eagle | Birdie | Bogey | Double bogey |
Source:[29]
This was the last U.S. Open forNBC Sports, which had televised the event for twenty consecutive years, 1995–2014. Starting in2015,Fox Sports began a 12-year contract to televise the championship and other USGA events, which it ended early before the2020 U.S. Open, where NBC regained coverage due to scheduling conflicts with Fox'sNFL andcollege football coverage caused by the tournament's postponement due to theCOVID-19 pandemic.
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