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1963 U.S. Open (golf)

Field	Value
name	1963 U.S. Open
dates	June 20–23, 1963
location	Brookline, Massachusetts
course	The Country Club
org	USGA
tour	PGA Tour
par	71
yardage	6870 yd
field	148 players, 51 after cut
cut	152 (+10)
purse	$88,550
winners_share	$17,500
champion	USA Julius Boros
score	293 (+9), playoff
previous	[1962](1962-u-s-open-golf)
next	[1964](1964-u-s-open-golf)

|USA |USA Massachusetts The 1963 U.S. Open was the 63rd U.S. Open, held June 20–23 at The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts, a suburb southwest of Boston. Julius Boros won his second U.S. Open title in an 18-hole Sunday playoff with Jacky Cupit and Arnold Palmer. The U.S. Open returned to The Country Club for the first time in fifty years to celebrate the golden anniversary of Francis Ouimet's playoff victory in 1913. Boros won eleven years earlier in 1952, and won a third major at age 48 at the PGA Championship in 1968.

At 43, Boros was the second-oldest winner in U.S. Open history, and only a month younger than Ted Ray when he won the 1920 Open. For Palmer, it was the second consecutive year he lost in a playoff at the Open.

High winds made scoring conditions extremely difficult throughout the entire week, especially on Saturday during the final two rounds, when gusts approached 50 mph. The winning score of 293 remains the highest in post-World War II U.S. Open history, while the 77.4 final-round scoring average set a record for the post-war era, later broken in 1972 at Pebble Beach. For the first time in U.S. Open history, no amateur made the cut.

Defending champion and Masters winner Jack Nicklaus missed the cut by a stroke; his next missed cut at the U.S. Open came 22 years later in 1985. He rebounded in the next two majors in 1963, missing the playoff at the Open Championship in England by a stroke for third place and won the PGA Championship in Dallas the following week.

This U.S. Open was played the week after Father's Day.

Course

Main article: The Country Club

Composite Course

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Out	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	In	Total
Yards	455	190	440	340	415	300	200	380	505	3,225	435	445	470	420	530	420	175	365	385	3,645	6,870
Par	4	3	4	4	4	4	3	4	5	35	4	4	4	4	5	4	3	4	4	36	71

Source: --

Hole	Name	Yards	Par	Hole	Name	Yards	Par
1	Polo Field	455	4		10	Stockton	435
2	Cottage	190	3	11	Primrose 1&2	445	4
3	Pond	440	4	12	Primrose 8	470	4
4	Hospital	340	4	13	Primrose 9	420	4
5	Newton	415	4	14	Quarry	530	5
6	Bakers	300	4	15	Liverpool	420	4
7	Plateau	200	3	16	Clyde	175	3
8	Corner	380	4	17	Elbow	365	4
9	Himalayas	505	5	18	Home	385	4
Out		3,225	35	In		3,645	36
			Total		6,870	71

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, June 20, 1963

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	USA Bob Gajda	69	−2
2	USA Jacky Cupit	70	−1
T3	USA Julius Boros	71	E
USA Lionel Hebert
USA Tony Lema
USA Davis Love Jr.
T7	USA Walter Burkemo	72	+1
USA Don January
USA Paul Kelly
USA Dean Refram

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Second round

Friday, June 21, 1963

Place	Player	Score	To par
T1	USA Jacky Cupit	70-72=142	E
USA Dow Finsterwald	73-69=142
USA Arnold Palmer	73-69=142
T4	USA Walter Burkemo	72-71=143	+1
USA Dean Refram	72-71=143
T6	USA Julius Boros	71-74=145	+3
USA Tony Lema	71-74=145
USA Davis Love Jr.	71-74=145
T9	AUS Bruce Crampton	74-72=146	+4
USA Don January	72-74=146
USA Billy Maxwell	73-73=146

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Third round

Saturday, June 22, 1963 (morning)

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	USA Jacky Cupit	70-72-76=218	+5
T2	USA Walter Burkemo	72-71-76=219	+6
USA Tony Lema	71-74-74=219
USA Arnold Palmer	73-69-77=219
T5	USA Julius Boros	71-74-76=221	+8
AUS Bruce Crampton	74-72-75=221
USA Dow Finsterwald	73-69-79=221
USA Paul Harney	78-70-73=221
USA Billy Maxwell	73-73-75=221
T10	USA Davis Love Jr.	71-74-78=223	+10
USA Dan Sikes	77-73-73=223

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Final round

Saturday, June 22, 1963 (afternoon)

Cupit owned the 54-hole lead by a stroke over Palmer, Tony Lema, and Walter Burkemo, with Boros in a group three behind. Boros recorded two birdies on his final three holes to post a 72 and 293 total. Cupit still held the lead until a double-bogey on the 17th dropped him into a tie with Boros and Palmer. He then missed a 12 ft putt for birdie at the last that would have won the championship. Playing several groups in front of the final group of Jacky Cupit and Dow Finsterwald, Paul Harney came to the 18th hole at 9-over and went over the back of the green in two. Harney then chipped to some 11 feet below the hole and left his par putt one roll short dead center. Had that putt dropped, he would've been in the playoff the next day with Cupit, Palmer and Boros.

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
T1	USA Julius Boros	71-74-76-72=293	+9	Playoff
USA Jacky Cupit	70-72-76-75=293
USA Arnold Palmer	73-69-77-74=293
4	USA Paul Harney	78-70-73-73=294	+10	5,000
T5	AUS Bruce Crampton	74-72-75-74=295	+11	3,166
USA Tony Lema	71-74-74-76=295
USA Billy Maxwell	73-73-75-74=295
T8	USA Walter Burkemo	72-71-76-77=296	+12	1,875
ZAF Gary Player	74-75-75-72=296
10	USA Dan Sikes	77-73-73-74=297	+13	1,550

Source:

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Par	4	3	4	4	4	4	3	4	5	4	4	4	4	5	4	3	4	4

Cumulative playoff scores, relative to par

	Eagle		Birdie		Bogey		Double bogey		Triple bogey+

Playoff

Sunday, June 23, 1963

Boros took command early in the playoff and had a three-stroke lead at the turn. Palmer took himself out of contention with a triple-bogey at 11, while Cupit bogeyed the same hole. Boros cruised to the win from there, carding a 70 to Cupit's 73 and Palmer's 76.

First prize was $16,000, and each of the three playoff participants received a bonus of $1,500 from the playoff gate receipts.

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	USA Julius Boros	70	−1	17,500
T2	USA Jacky Cupit	73	+2	8,500
USA Arnold Palmer	76	+5

Included in earnings is a playoff bonus of $1,500 each, from the playoff gate receipts.
Previously, three-way playoffs determined a third-place finisher (last in 1950); non-winners now tied for second.

Scorecard

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Par	4	3	4	4	4	4	3	4	5	4	4	4	4	5	4	3	4	4
USA Boros	E	+1	+1	E	−1	−1	−1	−1	−2	−2	−2	−2	E	E	E	E	−1	−1
USA Cupit	E	E	+2	+2	+1	+2	+2	+2	+2	+2	+3	+3	+3	+3	+3	+3	+2	+2
USA Palmer	+1	+1	+2	+2	+2	+1	+1	+1	+1	+2	+5	+6	+6	+7	+6	+5	+6	+5

Cumulative playoff scores, relative to par :{|class="wikitable" span = 50 style="font-size:85%; |- |Eagle-- |Birdie |Bogey |Double bogey |Triple bogey+ |} Source:

References

Grimsley, Will. (June 24, 1963). "Boros' 70 wins 63rd Open". Spokesman-Review.
"U.S. Open history: 1963". USGA.
Bartlett, Charles. (June 24, 1963). "Boros wins Open title by 3 strokes". Chicago Tribune.
Wright, Alfred. (July 1, 1963). "Big Jay has his day".
Bartlett, Charles. (June 21, 1963). "Unheralded Gajda leads Open on 69". Chicago Tribune.
(June 22, 1963). "National Open Scorecard (second round)". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Bartlett, Charles. (June 22, 1963). "Palmer in 3-way tie for Open lead". Chicago Tribune.
Bartlett, Charles. (June 23, 1963). "Palmer, Boros, and Cupit decide Open title in playoff today". Chicago Tribune.
(June 23, 1963). "Palmer, Boros, Cupit tied in Open". Eugene Register-Guard.
Bartlett, Charles. (June 23, 1963). "Palmer, Boros, and Cupit tie". Chicago Tribune.
Smith, Red. (June 24, 1963). "Views of Sports: Walking with Francis". Youngstown Vindicator.
(June 24, 1963). "Winners, playoff cards". Montreal Gazette.

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