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Saturday 16 June 1956Men’s majorsYear in Review
Middlecoff wins U.S. Open
Oak Hill Country Club, Rochester, New York · Thursday 14 to Saturday 16 June 1956
The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
15 h 11 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 70° up at noon, and that night a first-quarter moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R134°/21°C · wind 15 km/h WSW, gusts 37 · 0.6 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R232°/20°C · wind 13 km/h WSW, gusts 26 · 2.9 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R325°/19°C · wind 12 km/h N, gusts 32 · 1.1 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
The name over time
- U.S. Open
1895–2026 in our record, 126 editions.
The ones it got away from
Runners-up and the shots that cost them: not yet researched.
Same week
Nothing else in our record that week.
Men's major
U.S. Open
Oak Hill C.C., Rochester
2 of 5 researched
Winner
281Total
+1To par
1 strokeMargin
Runner-up: Julius Boros, Ben Hogan
The golfer
b. 1921-01-06, Halls, Tennessee, USA; United States; 3rd major (card's count)
Top 10
Not yet researched
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet
From the papers
No clipping yet