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1969 U.S. Open (golf)

Field	Value
name	1969 U.S. Open
dates	June 12–15, 1969
location	Houston, Texas
course	Champions Golf Club
Cypress Creek Course
tour	PGA Tour
org	USGA
par	70
yardage	6967 yd
field	149 players, 68 after cut
cut	148 (+8)
purse	$205,300
winners_share	$30,000
champion	USA Orville Moody
score	281 (+1)
previous	[1968](1968-u-s-open-golf)
next	[1970](1970-u-s-open-golf)

Cypress Creek Course |USA |USA Texas The 1969 U.S. Open was the 69th U.S. Open, held June 12–15 at the Cypress Creek Course of Champions Golf Club in Houston, Texas. Orville Moody won his only PGA Tour title, one stroke ahead of runners-up Deane Beman, Bob Rosburg, and Al Geiberger.

A 14-year veteran of the U.S. Army, Moody entered the final round in second place, three shots behind Miller Barber. At age 35, Moody advanced through both local and sectional qualifying in 1969, and as of 2021 is the last champion to do so. It was his only win on the PGA Tour, with only one additional top-10 finish in a major, two months later at the PGA Championship.

Battling an ailing knee, defending champion Lee Trevino (of Texas) missed the cut by a stroke; he won the title again in 1971.

The Cypress Creek Course hosted the Houston Champions International event on the PGA Tour, today's Houston Open, from 1966 through 1971, and the Ryder Cup in 1967. It later hosted The Tour Championship five times (1990, 1997, 1999, 2001, and 2003) and the U.S. Amateur in 1993.

Course layout

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Out	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	In	Total
Yards	435	444	379	193	451	418	417	180	505	3,422	448	450	213	544	430	418	175	436	431	3,545	6,967
Par	4	4	4	3	4	4	4	3	5	35	4	4	3	5	4	4	3	4	4	35	70

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, June 12, 1969

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	USA Bob Murphy	66	−4
2	USA Miller Barber	67	−3
T3	USA Deane Beman	68	−2
USA Al Geiberger
T5	USA George Archer	69	−1
USA Dean Refram
USA Tom Weiskopf
T8	USA Richard Crawford	70	E
USA Jack Ewing
USA Bunky Henry
CAN George Knudson
USA Arnold Palmer
USA Bob Rosburg

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Second round

Friday, June 13, 1969

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	USA Deane Beman	68-69=137	−3
T2	USA Miller Barber	67-71=138	−2
USA Bob Murphy	66-72=138
4		USA Bob Rosburg	70-69=139	−1
T5	USA Charles Coody	72-68=140	E
USA Al Geiberger	68-72=140
CAN George Knudson	70-70=140
T8	ENG Tony Jacklin	71-70=141	+1
USA Johnny Miller	71-70=141
USA Orville Moody	71-70=141
USA Jack Nicklaus	74-67=141

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Third round

Saturday, June 14, 1969

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	USA Miller Barber	67-71-68=206	−4
2	USA Orville Moody	71-70-68=209	−1
T3	USA Deane Beman	68-69-73=210	E
USA Bunky Henry	70-72-68=210
5		USA Bob Rosburg	70-69-72=211	+1
T6	USA Charles Coody	72-68-72=212	+2
USA Al Geiberger	68-72-72=212
USA Bobby Mitchell	72-74-66=212
USA Bob Murphy	66-72-74=212
USA Arnold Palmer	70-73-69=212

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Final round

Sunday, June 15, 1969

Miller Barber began the final round with a three-stroke lead, but it vanished after he bogeyed five of the first eight holes. He struggled to a 78 (+8) and dropped into a tie for sixth place, which allowed Moody to take the lead. At one point on the back nine, eight competitors were separated by just two shots. Bob Rosburg saved par from the sand at 17 to stay tied with Moody, but after a drive into the rough on 18, he again found a greenside bunker. Another sand shot got him to 3 ft, but he missed the putt for par to force an 18-hole Monday playoff. Playing in the final pairing with Barber, Moody had four consecutive pars to finish and preserved the one-stroke advantage for the championship. Barber needed only a 75 (+5) on Sunday to force a playoff, but finished three strokes back.

Final leaderboard

(c) = past champion

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money (US$)
1	USA Orville Moody	71-70-68-72=281	+1	30,000
T2	USA Deane Beman	68-69-73-72=282	+2	11,000
USA Al Geiberger	68-72-72-70=282
USA Bob Rosburg	70-69-72-71=282
5	USA Bob Murphy	66-72-74-71=283	+3	7,000
T6	USA Miller Barber	67-71-68-78=284	+4	5,000
AUS Bruce Crampton	73-72-68-71=284
USA Arnold Palmer (c)	70-73-69-72=284
9	USA Bunky Henry	70-72-68-75=285	+5	3,500
T10	USA George Archer	69-74-73-70=286	+6	2,800
AUS Bruce Devlin	73-74-70-69=286
USA Dave Marr	75-69-71-71=286

Leaderboard below the top 10	Place	Player	Score	To par
T13	USA Julius Boros (c)	71-73-70-73=287	+7	1,888
USA Charles Coody	72-68-72-75=287
USA Dale Douglass	76-69-70-72=287
USA Raymond Floyd	79-68-68-72=287
USA Dave Hill	73-74-70-70=287
USA Howie Johnson	72-73-72-70=287
USA Dean Refram	69-74-70-74=287
USA Phil Rodgers	76-70-69-72=287
USA Kermit Zarley	74-72-70-71=287
T22	AUS Bob Stanton	74-70-71-73=288	+8	1,500
USA Tom Weiskopf	69-75-71-73=288
USA Bert Yancey	71-71-74-72=288
T25	USA Joe Campbell	73-74-73-69=289	+9	1,300
USA Richard Crawford	70-75-73-71=289
ENG Tony Jacklin	71-70-73-75=289
USA Bobby Mitchell	72-74-66-77=289
USA Jack Nicklaus (c)	74-67-75-73=289
USA Dave Stockton	75-68-72-73=289
T31	USA Rich Bassett	73-74-69-74=290	+10	1,140
ZAF Bobby Cole	73-73-72-73=290
USA Bobby Nichols	74-74-72-70=290
USA Bob Smith	76-67-72-75=290
USA Jerry Steelsmith	72-72-75-71=290
T36	USA Homero Blancas	72-73-69-77=291	+11	1,070
CAN George Knudson	70-70-76-75=291
T38	USA Dan Sikes	74-74-72-72=292	+12	1,030
USA Sam Snead	71-77-70-74=292
T40	USA Tommy Aaron	71-72-73-77=293	+13	995
USA Billy Casper (c)	74-73-72-74=293
T42	CAN Al Balding	74-73-73-74=294	+14	955
USA Bert Greene	78-70-74-72=294
USA Bob Lunn	71-72-76-75=294
USA Johnny Miller	71-70-80-73=294
USA Jack Montgomery	74-73-72-75=294
USA Mike Souchak	72-73-74-75=294
T48	USA Don Bies	78-70-70-77=295	+15	915
ZAF Gary Player (c)	71-75-72-77=295
T50	USA Frank Beard	72-73-73-78=296	+16	895
USA Robert Stone	74-72-75-75=296
T52	USA Bill Collins	75-72-73-77=297	+17	865
USA Lionel Hebert	74-73-77-73=297
USA Bob Payne	71-74-73-79=297
USA John Schlee	74-74-78-71=297
T56	USA Bill Odgen	76-72-75-75=298	+18	835
USA Ken Still	74-74-72-78=298
T58	USA Pete Brown	74-74-74-77=299	+19	805
USA Jack Ewing	70-76-80-73=299
USA Labron Harris	71-75-75-78=299
USA Larry Hinson	73-75-76-75=299
USA Rives McBee	71-77-76-75=299
USA David Philo	71-74-78-76=299
64	USA Martin Bohen	72-75-74-81=301	+21	800
T65	USA Dave Eichelberger	76-71-76-80=303	+23
USA Dow Finsterwald	77-71-77-78=303
67	USA Lee Elder	74-73-79-82=308	+28
68	USA Chuck Courtney	72-76-80-82=310	+30
CUT			+9
		+10
		+11
		+12
		+13
		+14
		+15
		+16
		+17
		+18
		+19
		+20
		+21
		+22
		+23
		+24
		+25
		+27
		+31
WD	USA Don January	76	+6
USA Dan Keefe	0	E

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Scorecard

Final round

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Par	4	4	4	3	4	4	4	3	5	4	4	3	5	4	4	3	4	4
USA Moody	−1	−1	−1	E	E	E	E	E	−1	E	E	E	E	+1	+1	+1	+1	+1
USA Beman	+1	+2	+1	+2	+4	+4	+3	+3	+2	+2	+2	+2	+2	+3	+3	+3	+3	+2
USA Geiberger	+3	+4	+4	+4	+6	+6	+6	+5	+4	+3	+3	+3	+2	+2	+1	+2	+2	+2
USA Rosburg	+1	E	E	E	E	E	E	+1	E	E	+1	+1	+1	+1	+1	+1	+1	+2
USA Murphy	+2	+2	+2	+3	+3	+3	+3	+3	+2	+3	+2	+3	+2	+3	+3	+3	+3	+3
USA Barber	−4	−3	−2	−2	−1	E	E	+1	E	E	E	+2	+3	+3	+4	+3	+3	+4
USA Crampton	+3	+3	+3	+3	+3	+3	+4	+4	+3	+3	+3	+3	+2	+2	+3	+3	+4	+4
USA Palmer	+1	+2	+2	+3	+3	+3	+3	+3	+3	+3	+3	+3	+2	+2	+3	+4	+4	+4
USA Henry	+1	+2	+3	+4	+4	+4	+4	+4	+4	+4	+3	+4	+4	+5	+5	+5	+5	+5
USA Archer	+5	+6	+6	+7	+8	+7	+6	+6	+6	+5	+6	+6	+6	+6	+6	+6	+6	+6
AUS Devlin	+6	+6	+6	+5	+5	+6	+5	+5	+5	+5	+6	+6	+5	+5	+5	+6	+6	+6
USA Marr	+5	+5	+4	+4	+4	+5	+5	+6	+6	+6	+7	+8	+7	+7	+7	+6	+6	+6

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

:{|class="wikitable" span = 50 style="font-size:85%; |- |Double Eagle |Eagle -- |Birdie |Bogey |Double bogey |Triple bogey+ -- |} Source:

References

(June 14, 1969). "Beman slips through beef trust to take one-stroke Open lead". Spokesman-Review.
"U.S. Open history: 1969". USGA.
Jenkins, Dan. (June 23, 1969). "Old Sarge cools it". Sports Illustrated.
(June 16, 1969). "Orville Moody wins heartbreak U.S. Open". Spokesman-Review.
Jauss, Bill. (June 16, 1969). "Salute the 'Sarge,' golf king Moody". Toledo Blade.
(June 15, 1969). "Barber leads by 3 in 'blow-up' Open". Toledo Blade.
Jenkins, Dan. (June 9, 1969). "Wide-Open eyes are on Texas". Sports Illustrated.
(June 14, 1969). "Beman breaks up beef trust". Victoria Advocate.
(June 13, 1969). "Murphy leads Open; Pamer shoots par". Spokesman-Review.
"U.S. Open History". USGA.

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