Golf Network News
Monday 21 June 1965Men’s majorsYear in Review
Player wins U.S. Open
Bellerive Country Club, Town and Country, Missouri · Thursday 17 to Monday 21 June 1965
The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
14 h 42 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 75° up at noon, and that night a last-quarter moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R126°/14°C · wind 14 km/h NNE, gusts 30 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R226°/14°C · wind 12 km/h NE, gusts 23 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R329°/15°C · wind 10 km/h S, gusts 20 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R431°/18°C · wind 20 km/h SSW, gusts 38 · 0.3 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R529°/20°C · wind 13 km/h SW, gusts 24 · 0.7 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
Bellerive C.C., St. Louis
2 of 5 researched
Winner
282Total
+2To par
playoff: 18 holes, 71–74Margin
PlayoffDecided
Runner-up: Kel Nagle
The golfer
b. 1935-11-01, Johannesburg, South Africa; South Africa; 4th 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