{"id":10318,"date":"2012-04-27T04:33:01","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T02:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/golf-olympic-u-s-open-attracts-fourth-highest-entry-total\/"},"modified":"2012-04-27T04:33:01","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T02:33:01","slug":"golf-olympic-u-s-open-attracts-fourth-highest-entry-total","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/golf-olympic-u-s-open-attracts-fourth-highest-entry-total\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf-Olympic U.S. Open attracts fourth-highest entry total"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n

April 26<\/span> (Reuters) – This year’s U.S. Open at the Olympic
\nClub in San Francisco has attracted its fourth highest entry
\ntotal of 9,006 entries, the United States Golf Association
\n(USGA) said on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The number of applicants for the June 14-17 tournament is
\neclipsed only by the 2009 U.S. Open at Bethpage Black (9,086),
\nthe 2010 U.S. Open at Pebble Beach (9,052) and the 2005 U.S.
\nOpen at Pinehurst (9,048).<\/p>\n

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“It is always gratifying to see how many golfers, from
\nacross the world, are interested in playing in the National Open
\nChampionship,” USGA executive director Mike Davis said in a
\nstatement.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

“The great appeal of the U.S. Open is that anyone can enter,
\nprovided they meet the handicap index standards set forth.”<\/p>\n

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To be eligible to enter the U.S. Open, the second of the
\nyear’s four majors, a player must be a professional or have a
\nhandicap of 1.4 or better.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy, the world number one, will
\ndefend the title he clinched in record-breaking style last year
\nat Congressional where he triumphed by eight shots.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

Eight other former champions are fully exempt for this
\nyear’s edition: Angel Cabrera (2007), Michael Campbell (2005),
\nJim Furyk (2003), Lucas Glover (2009), Retief Goosen (2001,
\n2004), Graeme McDowell (2010), Geoff Ogilvy (2006) and Tiger
\nWoods (2000, 2002, 2008).<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

Local qualifying for the U.S. Open starts on April 30 at
\nmore than 100 venues after which 36 holes of sectional
\nqualifying will take place at 13 venues from May 21 to June 4.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

For the eighth year in a row, two of the sectional
\nqualifiers are international. One will be held in Japan, on May
\n21, and the other in England, on May 28.\t<\/p>\n

(Reporting by Mark Lamport-Stokes in Los Angeles; Editing by
\nGreg Stutchbury)<\/p>\n

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April 26 (Reuters) – This year’s U.S. Open at the Olympic Club in San Francisco has attracted its fourth highest entry total of 9,006 entries, the United States Golf Association (USGA) said on Thursday. The number of applicants for the June 14-17 tournament is eclipsed only by the 2009 U.S. Open at Bethpage Black (9,086), […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-10318","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}