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Monday 18 June 1984Men’s majorsYear in Review

Zoeller wins U.S. Open

Winged Foot Golf Club, Mamaroneck, New York · Thursday 14 to Monday 18 June 1984

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 57 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 72° up at noon, and that night a waning gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).

  1. R128°/20°C · wind 20 km/h W, gusts 42 · 13 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  2. R221°/14°C · wind 20 km/h NNW, gusts 44 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  3. R322°/12°C · wind 15 km/h E, gusts 30 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  4. R421°/18°C · wind 12 km/h SSE, gusts 24 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  5. R520°/18°C · wind 15 km/h SSE, gusts 33 · 10 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis

The name over time

  1. 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

Winged Foot G.C., Mamaroneck

2 of 5 researched

Winner

Fuzzy Zoeller

276Total
−4To par
playoff: 18 holes, 67–75Margin
PlayoffDecided

Runner-up: Greg Norman

The golfer

b. 1951-11-11, New Albany, Indiana, USA; United States; 2nd major (card's count)

Fuzzy Zoeller’s player card · Source

Top 10

Not yet researched

What’s in the bag

No bag on file yet

From the papers

No clipping yet