1992 U.S. Open (golf)


The 1992 U.S. Open was the 92nd U.S. Open, held June 18–21 at Pebble Beach Golf Links in Pebble Beach, California. Tom Kite, long considered one of the best players to never win a major, finally broke through with a U.S. Open title, two strokes ahead of runner-up Jeff Sluman.
Gil Morgan was the story of the opening two rounds. He took the first-round lead with a 66, then recorded a second-round 69 for the 36-hole lead. After a birdie at the 3rd hole of the third round, Morgan was at 10-under, becoming the first in U.S. Open history to reach double-digits under-par. He got as low as 12-under after a birdie at the 7th, but then collapsed. He made three double-bogeys the rest of the round, but still held the lead by one over Kite, Ian Woosnam, and Mark Brooks. Morgan finally fell out of the lead after a double-bogey at the 6th in the final round. He eventually finished in 13th place, playing his final 29 holes in 17-over par. As Morgan was falling, Kite played steady golf, recording two birdies at 12 and 14 to offset bogeys at 16 and 17. He finished with an even-par 72 and a 3-under total of 285 for a two-stroke win over Jeff Sluman.
Windy conditions combined with lightning-fast greens made scoring conditions in the final round extremely difficult. Morgan shot an 81, Woosnam, one back at the start of the round, shot 79, Brooks, also one back, shot 84, and Nick Faldo, two back at the start, carded a 77. Colin Montgomerie shot 70 for the joint lowest score of the round and jumped over 25 players to finish in 3rd place. The final-round scoring average was 77.3, the third-highest in post-World War II U.S. Open history.
Greg Norman, who was ranked #7 in the world, did not qualify.

Course layout

Hole123456789Out101112131415161718InTotal
Yards3735023983271665161074314643,2844263842023925653974022095483,5256,809
Par454435344364434544353672

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Previous course lengths for major championships
This was the last U.S. Open for a quarter-century to be played at a par-72 course. Since then, it has most often been played to a par of 70, and occasionally 71. When Pebble Beach hosted the tournament in 2000 and 2010, par was 71. The next par-72 course to host the U.S. Open was Erin Hills in 2017.

Past champions in the field

Made the cut

Missed the cut

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Round summaries

First round

Thursday, June 18, 1992
PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo par
1Gil Morgan66-6
2Curtis Strange67-5
T3Andy Dillard68-4
T3Phil Mickelson68-4
T3Steve Pate68-4
6Tom Lehman69-3
T7Paul Azinger70-2
T7Jay Don Blake70-2
T7Mark Brooks70-2
T7Mark Calcavecchia70-2
T7Nick Faldo70-2
T7Jay Haas70-2
T7Mark McCumber70-2
T7Colin Montgomerie70-2
T7Tom Purtzer70-2
T7Willie Wood70-2

Second round

Friday, June 19, 1992
PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo par
1Gil Morgan66-69=135-9
2Andy Dillard68-70=138-6
T3Raymond Floyd71-69=140-4
T3Wayne Grady74-66=140-4
T5Anders Forsbrand71-70=141-3
T5Gary Hallberg71-70=141-3
T5Colin Montgomerie70-71=141-3
T8Fred Couples72-70=142-2
T8Dan Forsman72-70=142-2
T8Tom Purtzer70-72=142-2
T8Duffy Waldorf72-70=142-2

Amateurs: Duval, Schutte, Voges, Gogel, Pride.

Third round

Saturday, June 20, 1992
PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo par
1Gil Morgan66-69-77=212-4
T2Mark Brooks70-74-69=213-3
T2Tom Kite71-72-70=213-3
T2Ian Woosnam72-72-69=213-3
T5Nick Faldo70-76-68=214-2
T5Gary Hallberg71-70-73=214-2
T5Joey Sindelar74-72-68=214-2
T8Tom Lehman69-74-72=215-1
T8Mark McNulty74-72-69=215-1
T8Scott Simpson76-71-68=215-1
T8Craig Stadler71-72-72=215-1
T8Payne Stewart73-70-72=215-1

Final leaderboard

Sunday, June 21, 1992
PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo parMoney
1Tom Kite71-72-70-72=285−3275,000
2Jeff Sluman73-74-69-71=287−1137,500
3Colin Montgomerie70-71-77-70=288E84,245
T4Nick Faldo70-76-68-77=291+354,924
T4Nick Price71-72-77-71=291+354,924
T6Billy Andrade72-74-72-74=292+432,316
T6Jay Don Blake70-74-75-73=292+432,316
T6Bob Gilder73-70-75-74=292+432,316
T6Mike Hulbert74-73-70-75=292+432,316
T6Tom Lehman69-74-72-77=292+432,316
T6Joey Sindelar74-72-68-78=292+432,316
T6Ian Woosnam72-72-69-79=292+432,316

Scorecard

Final round
Hole123456789101112131415161718
Par454435344443454435
Kite−4−4−4−2−2−3−4−4−3−3−3−4−4−5−5−4−3−3
SlumanE−1−1−1−1−1−1−1EEEEEEEEE−1
Montgomerie+2+1+1+1+1+2+2+1+2+1+1+1+1EE−1EE
Faldo−2−2−1EEE+2+2+2+3+3+4+4+4+4+4+4+3
Price+4+4+4+3+3+3+4+4+4+4+4+4+3+2+3+3+3+3
Andrade+2+2+4+4+4+4+4+4+4+5+5+4+4+3+4+4+4+4
Blake+2+1+1+1E−1−1EE+1+1+1+1EE+1+2+4
Gilder+3+1+1+1+1+1+2+2+2+2+3+3+3+3+3+4+4+4
HulbertE−1−1EEEEE+1+2+3+4+4+4+4+4+5+4
Lehman−1−2−2−1−1−1−1EE+1+2+3+4+4+3+3+4+4
Sindelar−1−2−2−1EEEE+2+3+4+5+5+4+4+4+4+4
Woosnam−3−3−2−2−1−1E+1+2+2+2+3+3+3+4+4+4+4
Morgan−4−4−4−2−3−1EE+1+1+1+2+3+3+3+4+5+5
Brooks−3−4−2−2−1E+1+1+3+4+4+5+5+6+7+7+8+9

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par
BirdieBogeyDouble bogey

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