1992 U.S. Open (golf)

1992 U.S. Open

Tournament information
Dates	June 18–21, 1992
Location	Pebble Beach, California
Course(s)	Pebble Beach Golf Links
Tour(s)	PGA Tour
Statistics
Par	72
Length	6,809 yards (6,226 m)[1]
Field	156 players, 66 after cut
Cut	147 (+3)
Prize fund	$1,500,000
Winner's share	$275,000
Champion
Tom Kite
285 (−3)
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Pebble Beach Golf Links

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Location in the United States

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.^[2]

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.^[3]

Greg Norman, who was ranked #7 in the world,^[4] did not qualify.^[5]

Source:^[6][1]

Previous course lengths for major championships

• 6,825 yards (6,241 m) - par 72, 1982 U.S. Open
• 6,806 yards (6,223 m) - par 72, 1977 PGA Championship
• 6,812 yards (6,229 m) - par 72, 1972 U.S. Open

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. Pebble Beach played to par 71 at all three of its subsequent U.S. Opens (2000, 2010, and 2019). The next par-72 course to host the U.S. Open, and the only one to date, was Erin Hills in 2017.^[7]

Thursday, June 18, 1992

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Gil Morgan	66	-6
2	Curtis Strange	67	-5
T3	Andy Dillard	68	-4
	Phil Mickelson
	Steve Pate
6	Tom Lehman	69	-3
T7	Paul Azinger	70	-2
	Jay Don Blake
	Mark Brooks
	Mark Calcavecchia
	Nick Faldo
	Jay Haas
	Mark McCumber
	Colin Montgomerie
	Tom Purtzer
	Willie Wood

First round

Friday, June 19, 1992

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Gil Morgan	66-69=135	-9
2	Andy Dillard	68-70=138	-6
T3	Raymond Floyd	71-69=140	-4
	Wayne Grady	74-66=140
T5	Anders Forsbrand	71-70=141	-3
	Gary Hallberg	71-70=141
	Colin Montgomerie	70-71=141
T8	Fred Couples	72-70=142	-2
	Dan Forsman	72-70=142
	Tom Purtzer	70-72=142
	Duffy Waldorf	72-70=142

Amateurs: Duval (+8), Schutte (+9), Voges (+11), Gogel (+17), Pride (+27).

Second round

Saturday, June 20, 1992

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Gil Morgan	66-69-77=212	-4
T2	Mark Brooks	70-74-69=213	-3
	Tom Kite	71-72-70=213
	Ian Woosnam	72-72-69=213
T5	Nick Faldo	70-76-68=214	-2
	Gary Hallberg	71-70-73=214
	Joey Sindelar	74-72-68=214
T8	Tom Lehman	69-74-72=215	-1
	Mark McNulty	74-72-69=215
	Scott Simpson	76-71-68=215
	Craig Stadler	71-72-72=215
	Payne Stewart	73-70-72=215

Third round

Sunday, June 21, 1992

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	Tom Kite	71-72-70-72=285	−3	275,000
2	Jeff Sluman	73-74-69-71=287	−1	137,500
3	Colin Montgomerie	70-71-77-70=288	E	84,245
T4	Nick Faldo	70-76-68-77=291	+3	54,924
	Nick Price	71-72-77-71=291
T6	Billy Andrade	72-74-72-74=292	+4	32,316
	Jay Don Blake	70-74-75-73=292
	Bob Gilder	73-70-75-74=292
	Mike Hulbert	74-73-70-75=292
	Tom Lehman	69-74-72-77=292
	Joey Sindelar	74-72-68-78=292
	Ian Woosnam	72-72-69-79=292

Final round

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Par	4	5	4	4	3	5	3	4	4	4	4	3	4	5	4	4	3	5
Kite	−4	−4	−4	−2	−2	−3	−4	−4	−3	−3	−3	−4	−4	−5	−5	−4	−3	−3
Sluman	E	−1	−1	−1	−1	−1	−1	−1	E	E	E	E	E	E	E	E	E	−1
Montgomerie	+2	+1	+1	+1	+1	+2	+2	+1	+2	+1	+1	+1	+1	E	E	−1	E	E
Faldo	−2	−2	−1	E	E	E	+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	+1	E	−1	−1	E	E	+1	+1	+1	+1	E	E	+1	+2	+4
Gilder	+3	+1	+1	+1	+1	+1	+2	+2	+2	+2	+3	+3	+3	+3	+3	+4	+4	+4
Hulbert	E	−1	−1	E	E	E	E	E	+1	+2	+3	+4	+4	+4	+4	+4	+5	+4
Lehman	−1	−2	−2	−1	−1	−1	−1	E	E	+1	+2	+3	+4	+4	+3	+3	+4	+4
Sindelar	−1	−2	−2	−1	E	E	E	E	+2	+3	+4	+5	+5	+4	+4	+4	+4	+4
Woosnam	−3	−3	−2	−2	−1	−1	E	+1	+2	+2	+2	+3	+3	+3	+4	+4	+4	+4
Morgan	−4	−4	−4	−2	−3	−1	E	E	+1	+1	+1	+2	+3	+3	+3	+4	+5	+5
Brooks	−3	−4	−2	−2	−1	E	+1	+1	+3	+4	+4	+5	+5	+6	+7	+7	+8	+9

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

Source:^[8]

• USGA Championship Database

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