2010 U.S. Open Golf Championship

2010 U.S. Open Golf Championship

Tournament information
Dates June 17 - 20, 2010
Location Pebble Beach, California
Course(s) Pebble Beach Golf Links
Tour(s) PGA Tour
PGA European Tour
Japan Golf Tour
Statistics
Par 71
Yardage TBD
Purse
Winner's share
Champion

The 2010 United States Open Golf Championship will be the 110th U.S. Open, and is scheduled to be played from June 17-20. This will be the fifth U.S. Open to be played at Pebble Beach Golf Links, and the first since 2000.

Field

About half the field each year consists of players who are fully exempt from qualifying for the U.S. Open. The players who have already qualified for the 2010 U.S. Open are listed below; this assumes the same criteria as in the 2009 event. Each player is classified according to the first category in which he qualified, but other categories are shown in parentheses.[1] The italicized dates represent when the outcome will be decided.

1. Last 10 U.S. Open Champions
Ángel Cabrera (3,9,10), Michael Campbell, Jim Furyk (9,10), Lucas Glover (8,9,10), Retief Goosen (9,10), Geoff Ogilvy (9,10,11), Tiger Woods (4,5,8,9,10,13)

2. Top two finishers in the 2009 U.S. Amateur
An Byeong-hun, Ben Martin

3. Last five Masters Champions
Trevor Immelman, Zach Johnson (9,10), Phil Mickelson (5,8,9,10), April 11, 2010

4. Last five British Open Champions
Stewart Cink (9,10), Pádraig Harrington (5,9,10,11)

5. Last five PGA Champions
Y.E. Yang (9,10)

6. The Players Champion
May 9, 2010

7. The U.S. Senior Open Champion
Fred Funk

8. Top 15 finishers and ties in the 2009 U.S. Open
Stephen Ames, Ricky Barnes, Matt Bettencourt, David Duval, Ross Fisher (11), Sergio García (11), Søren Hansen, Rory McIlroy (11), Hunter Mahan (9,10), Ryan Moore, Henrik Stenson, Mike Weir (9,10)

9. Top 30 leaders on the 2009 PGA Tour official money list
Paul Casey (11), Tim Clark, Brian Gay (10), Dustin Johnson (10), Jerry Kelly (10), Matt Kuchar, Justin Leonard, Kevin Na (10), Sean O'Hair (10), Kenny Perry (10), Ian Poulter (11), John Rollins, Rory Sabbatini, John Senden (10), Steve Stricker (10,13), David Toms (10), Nick Watney (10)

10. All players qualifying for the 2009 edition of The Tour Championship
Luke Donald, Jason Dufner, Ernie Els (11), Marc Leishman, Steve Marino, Heath Slocum, Scott Verplank

11. Top 15 on the 2009 European Tour Race to Dubai
Simon Dyson, Martin Kaymer, Søren Kjeldsen, Ross McGowan, Francesco Molinari, Lee Westwood, Oliver Wilson

12. Top 10 on the 2010 PGA Tour official money list, as of three weeks before the start of the U.S. Open
May 30, 2010

13. Winners of multiple PGA Tour events between the end of the 2009 U.S. Open and the start of the 2010 U.S. Open
June 13, 2010

14. Top 5 from the 2010 European Tour Race to Dubai, as of three weeks before the start of the U.S. Open
May 30, 2010

15. Top 2 on the 2009 Japan Golf Tour official money list, provided they are within the top 75 point leaders of the Official World Golf Rankings at that time
Yuta Ikeda, Ryo Ishikawa

16. Top 2 on the 2009 PGA Tour of Australasia official money list, provided they are within the top 75 point leaders of the Official World Golf Rankings at that time
Michael Sim (Alistair Presnell, ranked 376th, did not qualify)

17. Top 50 on the Official World Golf Rankings list, as of three weeks before the start of the U.S. Open
May 30, 2010

18. Special exemptions selected by the USGA
TBA
Sectional qualifiers

Europe: TBD
Japan: TBD
U.S.: TBD
Alternates

Note: alternates are drawn from the sectional qualifiers.
TBD

* (a) denotes amateur
* (L) denotes player advanced through local qualifying

Course

The course will be over 7,000 yards in length, with Arnold Palmer having done some renovations to it, by adding new tee boxes on holes 3, 9, 10, 11, and 13. There has also been 5 pot bunkers built on the left side of number 6 replacing the old bunker.