Golf Network News
Sunday 16 June 1985Men’s majorsYear in Review
North wins U.S. Open
Oakland Hills Country Club, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan · Thursday 13 to Sunday 16 June 1985
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 07 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 71° up at noon, and that night a waning crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R118°/7°C · wind 23 km/h WNW, gusts 50 · 3.4 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R222°/9°C · wind 12 km/h W, gusts 28 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R319°/13°C · wind 21 km/h S, gusts 34 · 13.8 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R420°/13°C · wind 21 km/h W, gusts 43 · 4.3 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
Men's major
U.S. Open
Oakland Hills C.C., Birmingham
2 of 5 researched
Winner
279Total
−1To par
1 strokeMargin
Runner-up: Dave Barr, T.C. Chen, Denis Watson
The golfer
b. 1950-03-09, Thorp, Wisconsin, USA; United States; 2nd 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