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Monday 20 June 1994Men’s majorsYear in Review

Els wins U.S. Open

Oakmont Country Club, Oakmont, Pennsylvania · Thursday 16 to Monday 20 June 1994

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 54 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 73° up at noon, and that night a waxing gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).

  1. R133°/22°C · wind 6 km/h N, gusts 20 · 0.6 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  2. R234°/22°C · wind 8 km/h ENE, gusts 25 · 0.1 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  3. R333°/22°C · wind 6 km/h ENE, gusts 23 · 0.4 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  4. R435°/22°C · wind 13 km/h N, gusts 35 · 1.8 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  5. R534°/21°C · wind 12 km/h S, gusts 23 · 2.5 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

Oakmont C.C., Oakmont

2 of 5 researched

Winner

Ernie Els

279Total
−5To par
playoff: 18 holes + sudden deathMargin
PlayoffDecided

Runner-up: Colin Montgomerie, Loren Roberts

The golfer

b. 1969-10-17, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa; South Africa; 1st major (card's count)

Ernie Els’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