Tournament information | |
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Dates | June 16–20, 1994 |
Location | Oakmont, Pennsylvania |
Course(s) | Oakmont Country Club |
Tour(s) | PGA Tour |
Statistics | |
Par | 71 |
Length | 6,946 yards (6,351 m)[1] |
Field | 159 players, 65 after cut |
Cut | 147 (+5) |
Prize fund | $1.7 million |
Winner's share | $320,000 |
Champion | |
Ernie Els | |
279 (−5), playoff | |
The 1994 U.S. Open was the 94th U.S. Open, held June 16–20 at Oakmont Country Club in Oakmont, Pennsylvania, a suburb northeast of Pittsburgh. Ernie Els, age 24, won the first of his four major titles on the second sudden-death hole to defeat Loren Roberts, after Colin Montgomerie was eliminated in an 18-hole playoff.[2] (Both Roberts and Montgomerie were winless in major championships, but each won several senior majors while on the Champions Tour.) It was the seventh U.S. Open and tenth major held at Oakmont, and was Arnold Palmer's final U.S. Open as a participant.