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Sunday 20 June 1999Men’s majorsYear in Review

Stewart wins U.S. Open

Pinehurst Resort, Pinehurst, North Carolina · Thursday 17 to Sunday 20 June 1999

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 22 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 78° up at noon, and that night a first-quarter moon (computed from the date and the place).

  1. R124°/18°C · wind 13 km/h NNE, gusts 28 · 6 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  2. R225°/16°C · wind 16 km/h NNE, gusts 39 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  3. R325°/14°C · wind 20 km/h NE, gusts 42 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  4. R419°/16°C · wind 16 km/h NNE, gusts 38 · 1 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

Pinehurst No. 2, Village of Pinehurst

2 of 5 researched

Winner

Payne Stewart

279Total
−1To par
1 strokeMargin

Runner-up: Phil Mickelson

The golfer

b. 1957-01-30, Springfield, Missouri, USA; United States; 3rd major (card's count)

Payne Stewart’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