The United States Open Championship, commonly known as the U.S. Open, is the annual open national championship of golf in the United States. It is the third of the four men's major golf championships, and is on the official schedule of both the PGA Tour and the European Tour. Since 1898 the competition has been 72 holes of stroke play, with the winner being the player with the lowest total number of strokes. It is staged by the United States Golf Association (USGA) in mid-June, scheduled so that, if there are no weather delays, the final round is played on the third Sunday. The U.S. Open is staged at a variety of courses, set up in such a way that scoring is very difficult, with a premium placed on accurate driving. As of 2023, the U.S. Open awards a $20 million purse, the largest of all four major championships.
Nicholas Raymond Leige Price is a Zimbabwean retired professional golfer who has won three major championships in his career: the PGA Championship twice and The Open Championship in 1994. In the mid-1990s, Price reached number one in the Official World Golf Ranking. He was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2003.
Robert Karlsson is a Swedish professional golfer who has played on the European Tour and the PGA Tour, and now plays on the PGA Tour Champions.
In professional golf, the term qualifying school is used for the annual qualifying tournaments for leading golf tours such as the U.S.-based PGA and LPGA Tours and the European Tour. A fixed number of players in the event win membership of the tour for the following season, otherwise known as a "tour card", meaning that they can play in most of the tour's events without having to qualify. They join the leaders on the previous year's money list/order of merit and certain other exempt players as members of the tour.
Oliver James Fisher is an English professional golfer who plays on the European Tour. He also played in the inaugural LIV Golf Invitational Series.
Ross Ian Thomas McGowan is an English professional golfer. He has won twice on the European Tour, the 2009 Madrid Masters and the 2020 Italian Open.
Seve Benson is an English professional golfer.
Jaco Phillipus van Zyl is a professional golfer from South Africa.
Rafael Cabrera-Bello is a Spanish professional golfer who plays on the European Tour, where he has won four times. He has also played on the PGA Tour.
Richard Bland is an English professional golfer.
Jeong Yeon-jin, better known as Jin Jeong, is a South Korean professional golfer.
Gary Stal is a French professional golfer.
Espen Kofstad is a Norwegian professional golfer who currently plays on the Challenge Tour.
Marcus Mikael Kinhult is a Swedish professional golfer who plays on the European Tour. He won the 2019 Betfred British Masters.
Magnus Persson Atlevi is a Swedish professional golfer. He competed as Magnus Persson until his marriage to Elisabeth Atlevi in 1999.
Karl Simon Forsström is a Swedish professional golfer who currently plays on the European Tour, where he has won once.
Matthew Arthur T. Southgate is an English professional golfer who plays on the European Tour.
Julian Suri is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the European Tour.
Stuart Little is an English professional golfer who played on the European Tour.
Nathan Kimsey is an English professional golfer. In 2022, he won the Rolex Challenge Tour Grand Final and the Challenge Tour Rankings.
