1. Media

2. Venue
    Course layout 

3. Field
    Nationalities in the field  Past champions in the field  Made the cut   Missed the cut  

4. Round summaries
    First round  Second round  Third round  Final round  Scorecard 

5. References

6. External links

The 2018 United States Open Championship was the 118th U.S. Open, held {{nowrap|June 14–17}} at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club in Shinnecock Hills, New York, about {{convert|80|mi|round=5|spell=in}} east of New York City on Long Island; it was the fifth time the U.S. Open was held at this course.

Defending champion Brooks Koepka shot a final round 68 for 281 (+1) to win his second straight U.S. Open, one stroke ahead of runner-up Tommy Fleetwood, who closed with the sixth round of 63 in U.S. Open history. Koepka was only the third to successfully defend the title since World War II, following Ben Hogan (1951) and Curtis Strange (1989).

The USGA changed the playoff format in February, from a full round (18 holes) to a two-hole aggregate playoff.^[1] Previously, playoffs at the U.S. Open were 18 holes, followed by sudden-death, if needed. The last 18-hole playoff was in 2008, won by Tiger Woods on the first sudden-death hole.

Media

This was the fourth U.S. Open televised by Fox and FS1.

Venue

Course layout

Lengths of the course for previous major championships:

• {{convert|6996|yd}}, par 70 - 2004 U.S. Open
• {{convert|6944|yd}}, par 70 - 1995 U.S. Open
• {{convert|6912|yd}}, par 70 - 1986 U.S. Open
• {{convert|4423|yd}}, {{spaces|10}} - 1896 U.S. Open

2018 yardages by round

• Scoring average: 74.650
  • by round: 76.474, 73.595, 75.327, 72.180
• Most difficult holes in relation to par: 14, 3, 2, 10

Field

About half the field consisted of players who were exempt from qualifying for the U.S. Open. Each player is classified according to the first category in which he qualified, and other categories are shown in parentheses.^[3]

1. Winners of the

//U.S. Open (golf)">U.S. Open Championship during the last ten years

2. Winner and runner-up of the 2017

//U.S. Amateur">U.S. Amateur, winner of the 2017 U.S. Junior Amateur and 2017 U.S. Mid-Amateur

Doug Ghim (a), Noah Goodwin (a), Matt Parziale (a)

• Doc Redman forfeited his exemption as winner of the U.S. Amateur by turning professional in May 2018.^[4]

3. Winner of the 2017

//Amateur Championship">Amateur Championship

Harry Ellis (a)

4. Winner of the 2017

//Mark H. McCormack Medal">Mark H. McCormack Medal (men's World Amateur Golf Ranking)

• Joaquín Niemann forfeited his exemption by turning professional.

5. Winners of the

//Masters Tournament">Masters Tournament during the last five years

6. Winners of

//The Open Championship">The Open Championship during the last five years

Zach Johnson (13,14), Phil Mickelson (13,14), Henrik Stenson (13,14)

7. Winners of the

//PGA Championship">PGA Championship during the last five years

Jason Day (8,12,13,14), Jason Dufner (12,13,14), Justin Thomas (11,12,13,14), Jimmy Walker (13,14)

8. Winners of

//The Players Championship">The Players Championship during the last three years

Kim Si-woo (13,14)

9. Winner of the 2018 European Tour

//BMW PGA Championship">BMW PGA Championship

Francesco Molinari (13,14)

10. Winner of the 2017

//U.S. Senior Open">U.S. Senior Open Championship

11. The 10 lowest scorers and anyone tying for 10th place at the

//2017 U.S. Open (golf)">2017 U.S. Open Championship

12. Players who qualified for the season-ending 2017

//Tour Championship">Tour Championship

Daniel Berger (13,14), Patrick Cantlay (13,14), Paul Casey (13,14), Kevin Chappell (13,14), Tony Finau (13,14), Adam Hadwin (13,14), Russell Henley (13,14), Kevin Kisner (13,14), Matt Kuchar (13,14), Marc Leishman (13,14), Pat Perez (13,14), Jon Rahm (13,14), Kyle Stanley (13,14), Jhonattan Vegas, Gary Woodland (13,14)

13. The top 60 point leaders and ties as of May 21, 2018, in the

//Official World Golf Ranking">Official World Golf Ranking

Kiradech Aphibarnrat (14), Rafael Cabrera-Bello (14), Bryson DeChambeau (14), Ross Fisher (14), Matthew Fitzpatrick (14), Dylan Frittelli, Branden Grace (14), Chesson Hadley, Tyrrell Hatton (14), Charles Howell III (14), Satoshi Kodaira (14), Alexander Lévy (14), Li Haotong (14), Luke List (14), Alex Norén (14), Louis Oosthuizen (14), Ian Poulter (14), Chez Reavie (14), Charl Schwartzel (14), Cameron Smith (14), Brendan Steele (14), Peter Uihlein (14)

14. The top 60 point leaders and ties as of June 11, 2018, in the

//Official World Golf Ranking">Official World Golf Ranking

15. Special exemptions given by the

//United States Golf Association">USGA

The remaining contestants earned their places through sectional qualifiers.

• Japan: Shota Akiyoshi, David Bransdon, Liang Wenchong
• England: Dean Burmester, Ryan Fox, Scott Gregory, Andrew Johnston, Tom Lewis, James Morrison, Thorbjørn Olesen, Matthieu Pavon, Richie Ramsay, Kristoffer Reitan (a), Jason Scrivener, Matthew Southgate, Matt Wallace, Paul Waring
• United States
• Daly City, California: Shintaro Ban (a), Franklin Huang (a,L), Park Sung-joon, Rhett Rasmussen (a,L), Yu Chun-an (a)
• Jupiter, Florida: Luis Gagne (a,L), Ty Strafaci (a,L), Richy Werenski
• Roswell, Georgia: Roberto Castro, Michael Hebert (L), Garrett Rank (a,L)
• Rockville, Maryland: Mickey DeMorat (L), Cole Miller (L), Sebastián Muñoz, Tim Wilkinson
• Summit, New Jersey: Stewart Hagestad (a), Calum Hill, Theo Humphrey (a), Mike Miller (L), Cameron Wilson
• Columbus, Ohio: Aaron Baddeley, Keegan Bradley, Brian Gay, Im Sung-jae, Russell Knox, Shane Lowry, Ryan Lumsden (a,L), Michael Putnam, Patrick Rodgers, Ollie Schniederjans, Adam Scott, Shubhankar Sharma, Harold Varner III, Will Zalatoris
• Springfield, Ohio: David Gazzolo (L), Will Grimmer (a,L), Dylan Meyer (L), Brian Stuard, Timothy Wiseman (a,L)
• Portland, Oregon: Chris Babcock (L), Michael Block (L), Lucas Herbert, Sulman Raza (L)
• Memphis, Tennessee: Eric Axley, Sam Burns, Tyler Duncan, Lanto Griffin, Mackenzie Hughes, Matt Jones, Scott Stallings, Steve Stricker, Braden Thornberry (a), Sebastián Vázquez (L), Aaron Wise
• Richmond, Texas: Philip Barbaree (a), Jacob Bergeron (a), Chris Naegel (L)

Alternates who gained entry:

• Ryan Evans (England) – claimed spot held for category 14
• Rikuya Hoshino (Japan) – claimed spot held for category 14
• Scott Piercy (Memphis) – claimed spot held for category 14
• Ted Potter Jr. (Columbus) – claimed spot held for category 14

(a) denotes amateur

(L) denotes player advanced through local qualifying

Nationalities in the field

Past champions in the field

Made the cut

Missed the cut

Round summaries

First round

Conditions were extremely difficult as gusty winds hung around all day with sunny skies, making the course firm and fast.^[10] Only four players broke par, including Dustin Johnson, one of the tournament favorites. The scoring average for the round was 76.47.^[11][12]

Second round

Dustin Johnson held the lead after shooting a 67, four shots ahead of Charley Hoffman and Scott Piercy.^[13]

Amateurs: Grimmer (+5), Gagne (+7), Parziale (+7), Thornberry (+9), Strafaci (+10), Ghim (+13), Rasmussen (+14), Hagestad (+15), Bergeron (+16), Humphrey (+16), Yu (+17), Huang (+18), Lumsden (+18), Rank (+18), Reitan (+18), Wiseman (+18), Ban (+19), Ellis (+19), Goodwin (+19), Barbaree (+21)

Third round

Second round leader Dustin Johnson shot a seven-over 77 to fall into a four-way tie with Daniel Berger, Tony Finau and defending champion Brooks Koepka. Johnson double bogeyed the par-3 2nd and went six-over on the front-nine. He made his only birdie of the round at the 11th to get back to the top of the leaderboard, but three-putted for bogey on 18 to settle for a share of the 54-hole lead. Berger and Finau began the round in 45th place and 11 shots behind, but each shot 66 (−4) for the low round of the day.^{[14][15][16][17]}

Scoring conditions got more difficult as the day went on. Koepka's two-over 72 was the lowest score among the final four groups. Only three rounds in the 60s were recorded, two of them by Berger and Finau. The scoring average for the round was 75.3.^[18]

Phil Mickelson incurred a two-shot penalty on the 13th when he walked after his ball which was running slowly away from the hole after his putt and deliberately hit the ball backwards towards the hole while it was still moving. He ended up shooting 81 (+11), equalling his highest score at the U.S. Open.^[19][20][21]

Amateurs: Parziale (+11), Gagne (+12), Grimmer (+13)

Final round

Brooks Koepka shot a final round 68 (−2) to finish one ahead of Tommy Fleetwood and win the U.S. Open for the second straight year. He was the first to successfully defend the title in 29 years, since Curtis Strange in 1989.

Koepka began the round in a four-way tie for the lead with Dustin Johnson, Daniel Berger, and Tony Finau. He got off to a good start with birdies on three of his first five holes to get to even par and take the lead. At the par-3 11th, his tee shot went into the rough over the green. After chipping into a greenside bunker, he holed a {{convert|12|ft|adj=on}} putt to save bogey. At the following hole, he made a six-foot par putt, then at the 14th he got up-and-down to save par from short of the green with an eight-foot putt. Hitting his approach at the par-5 16th to within four feet, he made the birdie to open up a two-shot lead. Despite a bogey at the 18th, Koepka held on win by one.^[22]

Fleetwood shot the sixth round of 63 in U.S. Open history to finish in second. He began the round six behind and began by sinking a putt from {{convert|56|ft|adj=on}} at the 2nd and three more birdies on the front-nine. He made four straight birdies on holes 12–15, with putts of {{convert|17|ft|0}} at 12, a {{convert|20|ft|0}} at 14, and {{convert|29|ft|0}} at 15. Fleetwood had an eight-foot putt at the 18th for the first 62 in U.S. Open history, but it slid past the hole that would have forced the first two-hole playoff.^[23]

Johnson made birdie at the 5th but three-putted for bogey at the 7th, 11th, 14th, and 17th. He birdied the last to shoot an even-par 70 and finish two shots behind Koepka. Finau bogeyed three of his first four holes but got back to even for the round with a 26-foot birdie at the 11th. He came to the 18th two back of Koepka but made double bogey and ended up in fifth place, four behind. Berger also started his round with two bogeys and finished with a three-over 73 to tie for sixth. Patrick Reed began three shots behind but birdied his first three holes and five of the first seven to tie for the lead. He made four bogeys the rest of the round, however, to fall back to fourth place.^[24][25]

With the win, Koepka becomes the seventh player to win consecutive U.S. Opens, and the first since Curtis Strange in 1989.

Amateurs: Gagne (+16), Parziale (+16), Grimmer (+23)

Scorecard

References

External links

• {{official website|http://www.usopen.com/}}
• United States Golf Association
• Coverage on the PGA Tour's official site
• Coverage on the European Tour's official site
• Coverage on the PGA of America's official site

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