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Sunday 18 June 2006PGA Tour · European TourYear in Review

Ogilvy wins U.S. Open

Winged Foot Golf Club, Mamaroneck, New York · Thursday 15 to Sunday 18 June 2006 · Geoff Ogilvy’s win no. 3 on the PGA Tour · purse $6,250,000 USD · 106th U.S. Open

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 last-quarter moon (computed from the date and the place).

  1. R125°/18°C · wind 18 km/h NNW, gusts 41 · 0.2 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  2. R227°/16°C · wind 12 km/h NW, gusts 24 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  3. R326°/18°C · wind 14 km/h WSW, gusts 31 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  4. R431°/20°C · wind 13 km/h SW, gusts 29 · 0 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

156 started · cut +9, 63 made it

Same week

Men's major

U.S. Open

Winged Foot G.C., Mamaroneck

4 of 5 researched

Winner

Geoff Ogilvy

285Total
+5To par
1 strokeMargin

Runner-up: Jim Furyk, Phil Mickelson, Colin Montgomerie

From the papers

ASAP Sports (interview transcript)

You wait your whole life to have a chance to chip one in the last three holes of a major, but when you do it, it took me by surprise a little bit.

Geoff Ogilvy, quoted in ASAP Sports (interview transcript), 18 June 2006. The report

Associated Press via ESPN

I feel for Phil. He's won a few majors recently, so I can take one away.

Geoff Ogilvy, quoted in Associated Press via ESPN, 18 June 2006. The report

ASAP Sports (interview transcript)

I still am in shock that I did that. I just can't believe that I did that. I am such an idiot.

Phil Mickelson, quoted in ASAP Sports (interview transcript), 18 June 2006. The report

ASAP Sports (interview transcript)

This is the first time I've really messed up. Other chances I've had other players have done very well.

Colin Montgomerie, quoted in ASAP Sports (interview transcript), 18 June 2006. The report
Top 10
PosPlayerRoundsTotalTo par
1Geoff Ogilvy71 · 70 · 72 · 72285+5
T2Jim Furyk70 · 72 · 74 · 70286+6
T2Phil Mickelson70 · 73 · 69 · 74286+6
T2Colin Montgomerie69 · 71 · 75 · 71286+6
5Padraig Harrington73 · 69 · 74 · 71287+7
T6Kenneth Ferrie71 · 70 · 71 · 76288+8
T6Vijay Singh71 · 74 · 70 · 73288+8
T6Jeff Sluman74 · 73 · 72 · 69288+8
T6Steve Stricker70 · 69 · 76 · 73288+8
T6Mike Weir71 · 74 · 71 · 72288+8
T6Nick O'Hern75 · 70 · 74 · 69288+8
The golfer

born 1977-06-11, Adelaide, South Australia; AUS; turned pro 1998; age 29 that week; tour wins to date: 3; majors to date: 1; world No. 17 that week (OWGR rankBefore (owgr.com player profile, US OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP 2006)).

Geoff Ogilvy’s player card · Source

What’s in the bag

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