2008 U.S. OPEN Golf Championship beginning June 12, 2008. Torrey Pines is only the second municipal golf course ever selected to host this prestigious golf event. The Black Cou

Torrey Pines Golf Course will host the 2008 US Open. Torrey Pines is located in La Jolla, CA and is known as one of the most beautiful places to experience golf. Torrey Pines Golf Course sits on a cliff that towers over the Pacific Ocean, and just minutes from San Diego making this golf course a perfect place for the US Open in 2008.

Us Open Golf - Monday Practice Round Torrey Pines
La Jolla, CA June 9, 2008 - Monday 7:00 pm

Us Open Golf - Tuesday Practice Round Torrey Pines
La Jolla, CA June 10, 2008 - Tuesday 7:00 am

Us Open Golf - Wednesday Practice Round Torrey Pines
La Jolla, CA June 11, 2008 - Wednesday 7:00 am

US Open Golf Championship Torrey Pines
La Jolla, CA June 12, 2008 - Thursday 7:00 am

US Open Golf Championship Torrey Pines
La Jolla, CA June 13, 2008 - Friday 7:00 am

Us Open Golf Championship Torrey Pines
La Jolla, CA June 14, 2008 - Saturday 7:00 am

Us Open Golf Championship Torrey Pines
La Jolla, CA June 15, 2008 - Sunday 7:00 am

Winning the US Open is one of golf’s greatest achievements. Each June amateur and professional players alike complete four days of 18-hole rounds of golf in the quest to win this event.

The leading annual men’s golf tournament in the United States is the US Open. The US Open is held every year in June, with the final round played on the third Sunday of that month. The U.S. Open golf tournament is one of golf's four majors, and it is the one run by the United States Golf Association, one of golf's two governing bodies. The U.S. Open takes place at a number of grounds, which are generally established so that low scoring is practically impossible. Actually, an Open course is longer than a usual one and has rough, hilly greens and pinched fairways. Some grounds, that try to get on the rotation for the tournament, are redesigned in order to receive these features.

Any professional, or to any amateur golfer with an up-to-date USGA Handicap Index not more than 1.4 the U.S. Open can take part in the tournament and obtain a place by being fully exempt or by competing successfully in Qualifying. The field usually comprises 156 golfers.

About half of the field consists of players that are fully exempt from qualifying. There are generally 17 full exemption categories, among them there are champions of the U.S. Open for the last ten years and the other three major golf tournaments for the last five years, the best 30 from the previous year's PGA Tour money list, the best 15 from the previous year's European Tour money list, and the best 50 in the Official World Golf Rankings according to the poll, held two weeks before the tournament.

2008 US Open - Gambling On Golf

Gambling on golf is as natural as grass. It's a game that sets up perfectly for all manner of gambling, and the handicapping system allows players of vastly disparate talent to play for a buck or two. At $50 a pop, golf bettors in The Shootout aren't going to make or lose a fortune.

Golf gambling raises the psychological ante of the game. It goes beyond posting a better score. It inflates the winner's ego (and wallet) when he takes some green off another man. Gambling extracts a price for mistakes, rewards good play with the feel of bills being pressed into the palm.

One of the most infamous betting matches of all time occurred between Lee Trevino and Ray Floyd, two of professional golf's greatest competitors. The betting match took place in the mid-1960s. Floyd was a newly qualified PGA Tour pro and Trevino was an assistant professional at the Horizon Hills Country Club in El Paso, Texas. Floyd was bold and brash, but had not yet come to glory and had yet to win a Masters, a U.S. Open or a PGA Championship. Trevino hadn't qualified for the PGA Tour yet, but wasn't far off from the first of his six major championships, the 1968 U.S. Open.

The match was arranged for at least 36 holes, maybe 54. Floyd's backers had bets in the thousands against Trevino's backers. And Floyd had $1,000 of his own money riding. In the first round, Floyd shot a 66 and Trevino beat him by three shots. Floyd wanted to play another nine holes, but Trevino told him he had to put away the carts and straighten up the bag room. So Floyd stayed around until the next day, passing the time by playing cards and dove shooting, then they went out and played for another $1,000. "I shot 65.
He shot 63," says Floyd. "My backers didn't want to stick around for another match, but I did. This guy's got $2,000 of my money and I wanted it back."

The next day the backers bets were doubled. It came down to the 18th hole, a par 5. "I had an eagle putt from 18 feet and Lee was just inside me," say Floyd. "I make mine for a 63. His putt doesn't go in, but I still to this day don't know how it didn't. I beat him 63 to 64.

U.S. Open Golf History

Horace Rawlins, an Englishman, won the first U.S. Open title in October, 1895, on a nine-hole course in New Port, RI. Ten professionals and one amateur competed in the 36-hole tournament played in one day. Rawlins won $150 cash, a $50 gold medal and a trophy out of a prize fund of $325.

The U.S. Open, which is one of the four major golf tournaments held yearly, didn’t have an American-born winner until 1911 when John J. McDermott won at the Chicago Golf Club. The other majors are The Masters, The US Open and the Professional Golfers Association (PGA) championship.

Players from only four nations, other than the United States, have won the U.S. Open since 1950. South African golfers lead the way with five championships since 1965.

The last three U.S. Opens have been won by non-American golfers. Retief Goosen, South Africa, won in 2005; Michael Campbell, New Zealand, in 2005; and Geoff Ogilvy, Australia, in 2006. No European player has won since England’s Tony Jacklin, captured the crown in 1970.

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