At 7, 264 yards, Winged Foot's West Course is the longest lay-out in US Open history.
Meanwhile, England's Ian Poulter won the qualifier at Columbus, Ohio, to secure his place at Winged Foot.
Winged Foot also is where former USGA President Sandy Tatum offered the defining comment for the U.S. Open.
You meet Winged Foot members everywhere and they can't say enough about it.
This is the low-tech pastime of the century, and it's a lot easier than shooting a 76 at Winged Foot.
The U.S. Golf Association will announce Monday that the West Course at Winged Foot will host the 2020 U.S. Open.
In considering the well-trapped and slick greens of Winged Foot, Casper took the opposite approach on the 215-yard par-three third hole.
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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.
The U.S. Open is returning to Winged Foot, the New York club with a history of clutch moments and one unforgettable collapse.
"I think it's great, " Ogilvy said about the return to Winged Foot.
Billy Casper won his first U.S. Open at Winged Foot in 1959.
He has won a golf tournament, but until he wins another major, people are going to ask him about the meltdown at Winged Foot.
With great fondness he recalls one conversation with a colleague, after a long successful day of business golf and dinner at Winged Foot in Mamaroneck, N.
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Olympic, along with Oakmont in Pennsylvania and Winged Foot in New York, ranks among the toughest courses that periodically host Opens, and it's tough in its own special way.
"Winged Foot offers a spectacular setting in a dynamic market, and has justifiably earned its reputation as one of the premier U.S. Open venues in the nation, " said Thomas O'Toole Jr.
"Winged Foot offers the best players in the world a spectacular test of golf and delivers to spirited New York golf fans one of the most exciting venues in the game, " he said.
The U.S. Open returns this year to Merion, and then will go to Pinehurst No. 2 (2014), Chambers Bay (2015), Oakmont (2016), Erin Hills (2017), Shinnecock Hills (2018), Pebble Beach (2019) and then Winged Foot.
The most recent trip to Winged Foot was memorable for all the wrong reasons not for Geoff Ogilvy winning with a superb up-and-down from below the 18th green, but for Phil Mickelson blowing his best chance ever to win the U.S. Open.
Winged Foot was designed by A.W. Tillinghast in 1923 and hosted its first U.S. Open six years later, when amateur Bobby Jones delivered one of the biggest shots in championship history with a 12-foot putt on the final hole to force a 36-hole playoff.
He was leading the U.S. Open at Winged Foot, looked like he was going to win a third straight major championship, then had a complete meltdown on the 18th hole there, made a double bogey, lost and has not contended in the two majors since.
Woods has twice come into a major after a long lay-off, with mixed results - he missed the cut in the 2006 US Open at Winged Foot after his father died, and he won the 2008 US Open at Torrey Pines while playing on a seriously injured left knee.
The world number two was roared on by an adoring crowd, mindful of his wife's illness and the fact that four of his US Open misses have come in the New York area - at Winged Foot (2006), Shinnecock (2004) and Bethpage twice following his runner-up to Tiger Woods in 2002.
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