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1992 U.S. Open (golf)

Field	Value
name	1992 U.S. Open
image	1992OpenLogo.jpg
dates	June 18–21, 1992
location	Pebble Beach, California
course	Pebble Beach Golf Links
tour	PGA Tour
par	72
yardage	6809 yd
field	156 players, 66 after cut
cut	147 (+3)
purse	$1,500,000
winners_share	$275,000
champion	USA Tom Kite
score	285 (−3)
previous	[1991](1991-u-s-open-golf)
next	[1993](1993-u-s-open-golf)

|USA The 1992 U.S. Open was the 92nd U.S. Open, held June 18–21 at Pebble Beach Golf Links in Pebble Beach, California. Tom Kite, long considered one of the best players to never win a major, finally broke through with a U.S. Open title, two strokes ahead of runner-up Jeff Sluman.

Gil Morgan was the story of the opening two rounds. He took the first-round lead with a 66, then recorded a second-round 69 for the 36-hole lead. After a birdie at the 3rd hole of the third round, Morgan was at 10-under, becoming the first in U.S. Open history to reach double-digits under-par. He got as low as 12-under after a birdie at the 7th, but then collapsed. He made three double-bogeys the rest of the round, but still held the lead by one over Kite, Ian Woosnam, and Mark Brooks. Morgan finally fell out of the lead after a double-bogey at the 6th in the final round. He eventually finished in 13th place, playing his final 29 holes in 17-over par. As Morgan was falling, Kite played steady golf, recording two birdies at 12 and 14 to offset bogeys at 16 and 17. He finished with an even-par 72 and a 3-under total of 285 for a two-stroke win over Jeff Sluman.

Windy conditions combined with lightning-fast greens made scoring conditions in the final round extremely difficult. Morgan shot an 81, Woosnam, one back at the start of the round, shot 79, Brooks, also one back, shot 84, and Nick Faldo, two back at the start, carded a 77. Colin Montgomerie shot 70 for the joint lowest score of the round and jumped over 25 players to finish in 3rd place. The final-round scoring average was 77.3, the third-highest in post-World War II U.S. Open history.

Greg Norman, who was ranked #7 in the world, did not qualify.

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	373	502	398	327	166	516	107	431	464	3,284	426	384	202	392	565	397	402	209	548	3,525	6,809
Par	4	5	4	4	3	5	3	4	4	36	4	4	3	4	5	4	4	3	5	36	72

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Previous course lengths for major championships

6825 yd - par 72, 1982 U.S. Open
6806 yd - par 72, 1977 PGA Championship
6812 yd - par 72, 1972 U.S. Open

This was the last U.S. Open for a quarter-century to be played at a par-72 course. Since then, it has most often been played to a par of 70, and occasionally 71. Pebble Beach played to par 71 at all three of its subsequent U.S. Opens (2000, 2010, and 2019). The next par-72 course to host the U.S. Open, and the only one to date, was Erin Hills in 2017.

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, June 18, 1992

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	USA Gil Morgan	66	-6
2	USA Curtis Strange	67	-5
T3	USA Andy Dillard	68	-4
USA Phil Mickelson
USA Steve Pate
6	USA Tom Lehman	69	-3
T7	USA Paul Azinger	70	-2
USA Jay Don Blake
USA Mark Brooks
USA Mark Calcavecchia
ENG Nick Faldo
USA Jay Haas
USA Mark McCumber
SCO Colin Montgomerie
USA Tom Purtzer
USA Willie Wood

Scorecard

First round

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

Second round

Friday, June 19, 1992

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	USA Gil Morgan	66-69=135	-9
2	USA Andy Dillard	68-70=138	-6
T3	USA Raymond Floyd	71-69=140	-4
AUS Wayne Grady	74-66=140
T5	SWE Anders Forsbrand	71-70=141	-3
USA Gary Hallberg	71-70=141
SCO Colin Montgomerie	70-71=141
T8	USA Fred Couples	72-70=142	-2
USA Dan Forsman	72-70=142
USA Tom Purtzer	70-72=142
USA Duffy Waldorf	72-70=142

Amateurs: Duval (+8), Schutte (+9), Voges (+11), Gogel (+17), Pride (+27).

Scorecard

Second round

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

Third round

Saturday, June 20, 1992

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	USA Gil Morgan	66-69-77=212	-4
T2	USA Mark Brooks	70-74-69=213	-3
USA Tom Kite	71-72-70=213
WAL Ian Woosnam	72-72-69=213
T5	ENG Nick Faldo	70-76-68=214	-2
USA Gary Hallberg	71-70-73=214
USA Joey Sindelar	74-72-68=214
T8	USA Tom Lehman	69-74-72=215	-1
ZWE Mark McNulty	74-72-69=215
USA Scott Simpson	76-71-68=215
USA Craig Stadler	71-72-72=215
USA Payne Stewart	73-70-72=215

Scorecard

Third round

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

Final leaderboard

Sunday, June 21, 1992

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	USA Tom Kite	71-72-70-72=285	−3	275,000
2	USA Jeff Sluman	73-74-69-71=287	−1	137,500
3	SCO Colin Montgomerie	70-71-77-70=288	E	84,245
T4	ENG Nick Faldo	70-76-68-77=291	+3	54,924
ZWE Nick Price	71-72-77-71=291
T6	USA Billy Andrade	72-74-72-74=292	+4	32,316
USA Jay Don Blake	70-74-75-73=292
USA Bob Gilder	73-70-75-74=292
USA Mike Hulbert	74-73-70-75=292
USA Tom Lehman	69-74-72-77=292
USA Joey Sindelar	74-72-68-78=292
WAL Ian Woosnam	72-72-69-79=292

Scorecard

Final round

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Par	4	5	4	4	3	5	3	4	4	4	4	3	4	5	4	4	3	5
USA Kite	−4	−4	−4	−2	−2	−3	−4	−4	−3	−3	−3	−4	−4	−5	−5	−4	−3	−3
USA Sluman	E	−1	−1	−1	−1	−1	−1	−1	E	E	E	E	E	E	E	E	E	−1
SCO Montgomerie	+2	+1	+1	+1	+1	+2	+2	+1	+2	+1	+1	+1	+1	E	E	−1	E	E
ENG Faldo	−2	−2	−1	E	E	E	+2	+2	+2	+3	+3	+4	+4	+4	+4	+4	+4	+3
ZIM Price	+4	+4	+4	+3	+3	+3	+4	+4	+4	+4	+4	+4	+3	+2	+3	+3	+3	+3
USA Andrade	+2	+2	+4	+4	+4	+4	+4	+4	+4	+5	+5	+4	+4	+3	+4	+4	+4	+4
USA Blake	+2	+1	+1	+1	E	−1	−1	E	E	+1	+1	+1	+1	E	E	+1	+2	+4
USA Gilder	+3	+1	+1	+1	+1	+1	+2	+2	+2	+2	+3	+3	+3	+3	+3	+4	+4	+4
USA Hulbert	E	−1	−1	E	E	E	E	E	+1	+2	+3	+4	+4	+4	+4	+4	+5	+4
USA Lehman	−1	−2	−2	−1	−1	−1	−1	E	E	+1	+2	+3	+4	+4	+3	+3	+4	+4
USA Sindelar	−1	−2	−2	−1	E	E	E	E	+2	+3	+4	+5	+5	+4	+4	+4	+4	+4
WAL Woosnam	−3	−3	−2	−2	−1	−1	E	+1	+2	+2	+2	+3	+3	+3	+4	+4	+4	+4
USA Morgan	−4	−4	−4	−2	−3	−1	E	E	+1	+1	+1	+2	+3	+3	+3	+4	+5	+5
USA Brooks	−3	−4	−2	−2	−1	E	+1	+1	+3	+4	+4	+5	+5	+6	+7	+7	+8	+9

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

	Eagle		Birdie		Bogey		Double bogey	Triple bogey+ --

Source:

References

"U.S. Open history: 1992". USGA.
Bunch, Ken. (June 22, 1992). "Kite beats winds, wins U.S. Open". Milwaukee Sentinel.
"Greg Norman OWGR 1992". Official World Golf Ranking.
(1992-06-09). "Norman Settles for U.S. Open Alternate's Spot : Golf: Tiger Woods, Crenshaw and Miller also fail to make the field during qualifying". Los Angeles Times.
(June 18, 1992). "Pebble Beach Golf Links - 1992 U.S. Open". Milwaukee Sentinel.
(June 17, 2010). "Inside the course: Pebble Beach Golf Links". PGA Tour.
Harig, Bob. (May 25, 2017). "Quick 9: With new putter, Spieth hopes to rebound at Colonial". ESPN.
"U.S. Open History". USGA.

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