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Nine interesting things to know ahead of the 2016 U.S. Open at Oakmont 

The longest par-3, most Opens hosted and highest combined winning score in Oakmont history are just some unique quirks for the second major of 2016

5. Oakmont contains the longest par 3 in U.S. Open history.

• The par-3 8th played to 261, 279, 281 and 300 yards during the four rounds of the tournament in 2007. Those are four of the five longest distances in par-3 U.S. Open history, including the three longest. It will play at most 288 yards this year. Jordan Spieth hit a 3-wood at the hole during his practice round on Sunday. A 3-wood! Into a par-3.

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The U.S. Open Makes Its Way Back To L.A. In 2023

The Country Club is getting its first U.S. Open in three decades, and Los Angeles Country Club is set to host its first major championship.

The newcomer is an old classic - the North Course at Los Angeles Country Club, which gets the U.S. Open in 2023. It will be the first time the U.S. Open is held in Los Angeles since Ben Hogan won at Riviera in 1948.

LA North is on the other side of the 405 freeway near Beverly Hills. George C. Thomas redesigned the course in 1927, and Gil Hanse restored it five years ago.

"We're in for a real treat," USGA executive director Mike Davis said. "It will be a wide U.S. Open. The course will have generous fairways, and it will be firm and fast. And it will be great to take the U.S. Open to the second-largest city in the country."

(Golf.com)

Did You Know - U.S. Open Golf Championship Edition

A new twist from the USGA yielded my favorite picture of the night. For the first time, the champion's name is being engraved on the trophy as he watches along with his family.

(DarrenCarroll.com)

The 2015 U.S. Open Championship Was A Thriller

Jordan Spieth Wins U.S. Open, Halfway to Grand Slam

In the end, though, the 115th U.S. Open was decided by the same thing that determines every U.S. Open: nerves. And the best player won.

Amid a firestorm of criticism directed at the USGA, second-ranked Jordan Spieth, the class of 2015 coming into the week, shot 69 and watched Dustin Johnson three-putt the 18th green from just 12 and a half feet to give America’s boy wonder Spieth his second straight major title.

“Someone had to hold the trophy,” said Spieth, who admitted he was not at his best from tee to green, and who dedicated the victory to his father, Shawn, on Father’s Day. “There’s noise around every tournament about a pin position here or the greens are this or the layout. Someone has to win it.”

(Golf.com)

I Predict The Winner's Odds Will Be At Least 18/1

2015 U.S. Open Odds: Betting Odds For Chambers Bay

Sergio Garcia 30/1

Tiger Woods 60/1

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Useless Info - U.S. Open Edition

Little-Known U.S. Open Facts

Curious stories and obscure anecdotes from the toughest test in golf

• 1912 US Open map The 1912 U.S. Open, held at the Country Club of Buffalo, was the first and only Open course to feature a par 6. En route to his second consecutive U.S. Open win, John McDermott would play the 606-yard 10th hole at six-under par for the tournament.
• The worst single hole score in a U.S. Open belongs to Ray Ainsley in 1938. It started when he hit his ball into the creek on the par-4 16th at Cherry Hills C.C. He kept swinging while his ball floated down the stream, and by the time his ball was safely in the hole, he had posted a whopping 19.

Complete list (GolfDigest.com)