The U.S. Open Championship is also commonly known as the United States Open Championship and is an annual open to all golf tournament in the United States. The U.S. Open Championship is no. 2 of the four biggest championships on the golfing calendar and is also on the PGA’s official tour schedule of both America and the European tour.

The U.S. Open Championship is staged by the United States Golf Association which is also known as the USGA. The U.S. Open Championship is usually schedule in the mid of June if the weather out there is good and no delays are expected. Then after that the final round of the U.S. Open Championship is played on the third Sunday which incidentally is also Father’s Day. Starting from 2008 it also became an official money event during the Asian tour with over 50% of the Asian members whose earnings counted towards the order of their merit.

The U.S. Open Championship is staged in a number of various golf courses around the United States and its setup so that scoring is extremely difficult when you have a premium placed on accurate driving. The play of the U.S Open Championship is always high and tight scoring where the winner emerges at around even par. It’s very seldom that the golf course for the U.S. Open is beaten, there however have been a number of over par wins. The course is normally an open course with quite a lot of high cut of open rough, hills, and other types of odd greens like the Pinehurst no. 2 in 2005, which NBC’s Johnny Miller described as its like to hit the ball from over a VW Beetle.

When you look at the pinched fair ways of the U.S. Open Championship many of them undergo lots of renovation before the games are hosted there. Many golf courses actually have these features incorporated by the U.S. Open, by the “Open Doctor” who is responsible for this. Also like all other golf tournaments there needs to be open space available for spectators and so local infrastructure is also a deciding factor when it comes to which course is selected for the U.S. Open championship.

The one very interesting thing about the U.S. Open Championship is that it’s the only one of the four biggest championships which does not directly and immediately to a playoff if there are two or more player that have tied at the end of the four rounds. Now in place of that the players are to pay a fifth round which is an 18 hole rough that following week on Monday, however if that goes down in a tie too then there is a sudden death playoff. However there have been only three times in the history of the U.s. Open Championship that the game has gone to sudden death after the playoff this was most recently when in 2008 Tiger Woods beat Rocco Mediate on the first playoff hole.