He won the first of his 14 US PGA Tour victories 12 months later and by 1986 he had added another five.
Kaymer started this season by winning the Abu Dhabi Championship before being crowned US PGA champion after triumphing in a play-off with Bubba Watson.
Mickelson was chasing a first US Open title following a record five runner-up spots to add to three Masters Green Jackets and a US PGA victory.
In-form Casey won on the European Tour in Abu Dhabi earlier this year and recently recorded his first US PGA Tour victory in the Houston Open.
Mickelson, who has won three Masters titles and one US PGA Championship, has never lifted the US Open despite five runner-up spots, including at Bethpage last year.
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Love entered the US PGA Tour record books as the only player in the history of the Players Championship to go from first to missing the cut.
But the present Ryder Cup captain, Europe's eight-time number one, has not managed a US PGA Tour title in 17 years of trying, losing play-offs for the US Open and US PGA and having two other second places in the US Open.
Micheel, the 2003 US PGA champion, was first home with a 69 after mixing five birdies with three bogeys, while the 29-year-old De Jonge, playing in his first US Open, was helped by holing out with a wedge for an eagle at the par-five 14th.
The programme, which includes contributions from Tiger Woods, Darren Clarke and Graeme McDowell, charts a remarkable 2012 for McIlroy during which he became world number one, claimed a second Major Championship - the US PGA - and went on to top the money list on both sides of the Atlantic.
Three US Opens, one PGA and one Open ended up with Montgomerie in second - and no player in the history of the game has had as many such near-misses without ever winning one.
Axley, 34, shared ninth at last month's US Open and won his only PGA title at the 2006 Texas Open.
Scott, who plays most of his golf these days on the PGA Tour in the US, was hardly conservative off the tee either.
It is the only venue in any country that has hosted two different Majors (The PGA Championship and two US Opens, with several more to come) and the Ryder Cup.
No US Open winner, however, has ever won on the PGA Tour a week before their victory, although Westwood is unperturbed by this statistic and has insisted he is not weighed down by the weight of expectation.
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The most obvious would be to reinstate the US Amateur, which certainly would not sit well with professional golfers or the PGA Tour, but tough.
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Haas, who won the Senior PGA Championship two weeks ago, first played Winged Foot in the 1974 US Open as an amateur.
US-based Londoner Davis maintained his spell of good form after he came close to a maiden PGA Tour title last month.
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