1895 Newport Golf Club, RI
Horace Rawlins, an English professional, wins the first championship, contested by 11 golfers over four rounds of the nine-hole course in one day, with scores of 91-82; 173.

1896 Shinnecock Hills, NY
Scotsman Jim Foulis scores 78-74; 152 over the 4,423-yard course to beat defender Rawlins by three.

1897 Chicago Golf Club, IL
As the championship goes west, Englishman Joe Lloyd tops a field of 35 with 83-79; 162.

1898 Myopia Hunt Club, MA
Over 72 holes for the first time, Scotsman Fred Herd triumphs after eight rounds of the nine-hole course.

1899 Baltimore Country Club, MD
Willie Smith, of Carnoustie, prevails by 11 strokes - still the record margin.

1900 Chicago Golf Club, IL
Famed Englishmen Harry Vardon and J.H. Taylor dominate, finishing first and second.

1901 Myopia Hunt Club, MA
Dour little Scot Willie Anderson defeats fellow-countryman Alex Smith in the first play-off, 85-86, after taking 331 strokes for the 72 holes - the highest total by a winner.

1902 Garden City Golf Club, NY
Laurie Auchterlonie, of St. Andrews, breaks 80 for all four rounds for the first time - thanks partly to the new rubber-cored (Haskell) ball.

1903 Baltusrol Golf Club, NJ
Anderson repeats in another play-off 82-84 over yet another Scot, David Brown.

1904 Glen View Club, IL
Anderson takes his third title, by five strokes, after closing with a championship-record 72.

1905 Myopia Hunt Club, MA
Anderson wins three Opens in a row. Only Bobby Jones, Ben Hogan and Jack Nicklaus have equalled Anderson’s mark of four career wins.

1906 Onwentsia Club, IL
Alex Smith ends Anderson’s reign with 73-74-73-75; 295, the first total under 300. First prize reaches $300.

1907 Philadelphia Cricket Club, PA
The tenth Scottish victory in 12 playings of the championship, as Alex Ross prevails with 76-74-76-76; 302.

1908 Myopia Hunt Club, MA
Yet another Scottish champion, as 108-lb. Fred McLeod defeats Willie Smith in a play-off, 77-83.

1909 Englewood Golf Club, NJ
A new 72-hole record of 75-72-72-71; 290 for Englishman George Sargent, as 70 is broken for the first time by David Hunter with a 68 in the opening round.

1910 Philadelphia Cricket Club, PA
Alex Smith takes his second Open in the first three-way play-off.

1911 Chicago Golf Club, IL
At last, Britain’s supremacy ends as Johnny McDermott, a self-assured ex-caddie from Philadelphia, defeats Mike Brady and George Simpson in another three-way play-off.

1912 Country Club of Buffalo, NY
McDermott proves it was no fluke, with the first under-par total of 294.

1913 The Country Club, MA
Twenty-year-old local amateur Francis Ouimet scores a sensational victory over British titans Harry Vardon and Ted Ray in a dramatic play-off. Ouimet's triumph catches the public fancy to the point of marking the beginning of golf's mass popularity in the United States.

1914 Midlothian Country Club, IL
Walter Hagen leads each round and ties the 72-hole record of 290 to beat local amateur Charles "Chick" Evans, Jr., by a stroke.

1915 Baltusrol Golf Club, NJ
Four-time Amateur champion Jerome D. Travers plays the final six holes in one under par to win by a stroke.

1916 Minikahda Club, MN
Chick Evans lowers the record score to 286 with rounds of 70-69-74-73, for the third amateur victory in four years. Three months later he will win the Amateur to become the first golfer to hold both titles in the same year.

1917-1918
World War I halts the championship

1919 Brae Burn Country Club, MA
Walter Hagen again, in a play-off over Mike Brady. The total purse climbs to $1,745.

1920 Inverness Club, OH
At 43, England’s Ted Ray becomes the oldest winner, defeating his compatriot Harry Vardon after a sudden gale costs the 50-year-old Vardon a five-stroke lead over the last seven holes.

1921 Columbia Country Club, MD
England again, as big Jim Barns leads every round and wins by a whopping nine strokes from Hagen and little Freddie McLeod.

1922 Skokie Country Club, IL
A 20-year-old called Gene Sarazen bursts onto the scene with a last-hole birdie for a record final round of 68, giving him a one-stroke victory over amateur Bobby Jones and 43-year-old grandfather John Black.

1923 Inwood Country Club, NY
The Bobby Jones era opens with the legendary amateur’s first "major" - in a play-off over Bobby Cruickshank. Jones' 2-iron from rough over a lagoon to set up a par on the final play-off hole remains one of golf’s most famous shots.

1924 Oakland Hills Country Club, MI
Pint-sized Englishman Cyril Walker finishes three strokes ahead of Jones with steady rounds of 74-74-74-75.

1925 Worcester Country Club, MA
Jones is runner-up again, to Willie MacFarlane, 72 to 73 in a second play-off, after they tie with 75s the first time around.

1926 Scioto Country Club, OH
Jones becomes the first golfer to win the British and U.S. Opens in the same year, with a one-stroke victory over Joe Turnesa.

1927 Oakmont Country Club, PA
Tommy Armour and Harry Cooper tie with 13-over-par 72-hole totals of 301, Armour going on to win the play-off, 76 to 79.

1928 Olympia Fields Country Club, IL
Play-off again, this time over 36 holes, with Johnnie Farrell defeating Bobby Jones, 143 to 144.

1929 Winged Foot Golf Club, NY
After taking two 7s in his final round, Jones holes from 12 feet on the last green to tie Al Espinosa, then is invincible in his fourth Open play-off with 72-69; 141 to Espinosa's 84-80; 164.

1930 Interlachen Country Club, MN
Jones wins the third leg of his Grand Slam - U.S. and British Amateur and Open victories in one year - with three birdies in the last five holes and a 40-footer on the final green.

1931 Inverness Club, OH
With Jones retired, Billy Burke beats George Von Elm by a stroke in the longest Open ever - 144 holes, consisting of the regular 72, then two 36-hole play-offs.

1932 Fresh Meadow Country Club, NY
Gene Sarazen wins with a record 66 in the final round, becoming the second man after Jones (who did it twice) to hold the British and U.S. Opens in the same year.

1933 North Shore Golf Club, IL
Johnny Goodman becomes the fifth and last amateur to win the title, by a stroke from Ralph Guldahl.

1934 Merion Cricket Club, PA
Fighting a stomach ailment, Californian Olin Dutra makes up an eight-stroke deficit after two rounds to top Gene Sarazen by a shot.

1935 Oakmont Country Club, PA
Little-known Sam Parks is the only golfer to negotiate Oakmont in less than 300 strokes, to beat big-hitting Jimmy Thompson by two.

1936 Baltusrol Golf Club, NJ
Another virtual unknown, Tony Manero, sets a new record of 282 in beating Harry Cooper by two strokes.

1937 Oakland Hills Country Club, MI
Ralph Guldahl makes short work of Manero's record with 71-69-72-69; 281. Playing in his first Open, Sam Snead finishes second.

1938 Cherry Hills Country Club, CO
Guldahl joins Willie Anderson, Johnny McDermott and Bobby Jones as successful defenders with an easy victory over Dick Metz. He wins $1,000 of the $6,000 purse.

1939 Philadelphia Country Club, PA
Sam Snead comes to the last hole needing a par 5 to win, takes 8, and finishes fifth. After Denny Shute is eliminated in the first 18-hole playoff, Byron Nelson - aided by a holed 1-iron shot - defeats Craig Wood in a second play-off, 70 to 73.

1940 Canterbury Golf Club, OH
Lawson Little, winner of the U.S. and British Amateurs in 1934-35, tops Gene Sarazen in a play-off, 70 to 73.

1941 Colonial Club, TX
Wearing a corset to ease the pain of a back injury, Craig Wood beats Denny Shute by three strokes.

1942-45
World War II halts the championship

1946 Canterbury Golf Club, OH
Californian Lloyd Mangrum, fresh out of the Army, needs two play-offs to overcome Byron Nelson and Vic Ghezzi.

1947 St. Louis Country Club, MO
Sam Snead birdies the last hole from 18 feet to tie Lew Worsham over the regulation distance, but loses the play-off, missing on the final green from three feet after Worsham questions who is away as Snead prepares to putt.

1948 Riviera Country Club, CA
After some years as the pre-championship favorite, Ben Hogan takes his first Open, with a record four-round total of 67-72-68-69; 276.

1949 Medinah Country Club, IL
Cary Middlecoff, a dentist, defeats Sam Snead and Clayton Heafner, as Snead misses forcing a play-off by taking three from just off the green at the penultimate hole.

1950 Merion Golf Club, PA
Sixteen months after a near-fatal auto accident, Ben Hogan wins the 50th Open in a dramatic play-off with Lloyd Mangrum and George Fazio.

1951 Oakland Hills Country Club, MI
Hogan wins for the third straight time he’s played in the championship. His closing 67, on a course regarded as the toughest then used for the Open, is considered his greatest single round.

1952 Northwood Club, TX
In extreme heat, Julius Boros wins by four strokes from Ed “Porky” Oliver, with Hogan third, a further stroke adrift.

1953 Oakmont Country Club, PA
Hogan matches the record of Willie Anderson and Bobby Jones with his fourth title, leading all the way and finishing birdie-birdie to beat Sam Snead - runner- up for the fourth time - by six strokes.

1954 Baltusrol Golf Club, NJ
Ed Furgol, playing with a withered and permanently bent left arm as the result of a childhood accident, defeats Gene Littler by a stroke. The championship is nationally televised for the first time.

1955 Olympic Country Club, CA
Municipal-course pro Jack Fleck, playing his first full year on tour at age 32, birdies two of the last four holes to tie Ben Hogan, then beats him in a play-off, 69 to 72.

1956 Oak Hill Country Club, NY
Cary Middlecoff wins his second Open by a stroke from Julius Boros and Ben Hogan, who misses a 30-inch putt on the next-to-last hole.

1957 Inverness Club, OH
Dick Mayer defeats defender Middlecoff in a play-off, 72 to 79.

1958 Southern Hills Country Club, OK
Tempestuous Tommy Bolt, at 39, leads after every round for a four-stroke victory over Gary Player. Entries reach 2,132 and the purse climbs to $35,000, with $8,000 going to the winner.

1959 Winged Foot Country Club, NY
Hefty Californian Billy Casper tops Bob Rosburg by one stroke.

1960 Cherry Hills Country Club, CO
Trailing by seven strokes with one round to go, Arnold Palmer drives the opening par-4 and birdies six of the first seven holes for a front nine of 30, then closes with 65 to win by a stroke. Twenty-year-old Jack Nicklaus’ 71-71-69-71; 282 to finish second is the lowest score by an amateur in Open history.

1961 Oakland Hills Country Club, MI
The only golfer to break par twice, Gene Littler becomes the eighth player in history to win both the Open and Amateur titles. Doug Sanders and Bob Goalby tie for second, one stroke back, with Nicklaus - still an amateur - fourth a further stroke adrift.

1962 Oakmont Country Club, PA
Jack Nicklaus scores his first professional victory with a three-stroke play-off triumph over Arnold Palmer, launching one of the greatest rivalries in the history of the game.

1963 The Country Club, MA
At 43, Julius Boros captures his second Open with a play-off defeat of Arnold Palmer and Jacky Cupit.

1964 Congressional Country Club, DC
In brutal afternoon heat and humidity, an exhausted and almost traumatized Ken Venturi adds a 70 to his morning 66, to win by four strokes from Tommy Jacobs.

1965 Bellerive Country Club, MO
South African Gary Player becomes the first foreigner to win the Open since Ted Ray in 1920, with a 71-to-74 play-off defeat of another visitor, Australian Kel Nagle.

1966 The Olympic Club, CA
Billy Casper makes up seven strokes over the last nine holes of regulation play to tie a badly faltering Arnold Palmer, and then defeats him in the next day’s play-off, 69 to 73.

1967 Baltusrol Golf Club, NJ
With a dramatic last-hole birdie for a new 72-hole record of 71-67-72-65; 275, Jack Nicklaus beats Arnold Palmer by four in another of their famous duels, to win his second Open and eighth “major” in eight years.

1968 Oak Hill Country Club, NY
Lee Buck Trevino, a 28-year-old Tex-Mex equals Nicklaus’ 72-hole record and becomes the first golfer to break 70 in all four rounds of the Open with a winning total of 69-68-69-69; 275.

1969 Champions Golf Club, TX
Orville “Sarge” Moody survives a shaky putting stroke to become the second straight surprise United States champion.

1970 Hazeltine National Golf Club, MN
Ex-steelworker Tony Jacklin becomes the first British winner in 50 years with 71-70-70-70; 281.

1971 Merion Golf Club, PA
Lee Trevino, wins his second Open with a 68 to 71 play-off defeat of the Golden Bear, who twice leaves shots in bunkers.

1972 Pebble Beach Golf Links, CA
With a two-over-par score of 290 on his favorite course playing at its most difficult, Jack Nicklaus bounces back to capture his third Open, by three strokes from Australian Bruce Crampton. In his last run at a “major,” Arnold Palmer ties for third.

1973 Oakmont Country Club, PA
Californian Johnny Miller fires an Open record 63 in the final round, to defeat John Schlee by one stroke and Tom Weiskopf by two.

1974 Winged Foot Golf Club, NY
With a seven-over-par score of 287, the highest relative to par in more than 20 years, Hale Irwin tops Forrest Felzer by a stroke.

1975 Medinah Country Club, IL
Lou Graham defeats John Mahaffey in a play-off, 71 to 73, following a tie at three over par.

1976 Atlanta Athletic Club, GA
Twenty-two-year-old former Amateur champion Jerry Pate hits a sensational 5-iron from rough across water to within two feet of the final hole to beat Al Geiberger and Tom Weiskopf by two strokes.

1977 Southern Hills Country Club, OK
Despite threats of bodily harm, assumedly by high-rolling gamblers, Hubert Green plays a solid final 18 holes to hold off Lou Graham.

1978 Cherry Hills Country Club, CO
With a superb bunker shot and four-foot putt to finish, little-known Andy North defeats Dave Stockton and J.C. Snead by one stroke.

1979 Inverness Club, OH
Hale Irwin wins his second title by two strokes from Gary Player and Jerry Pate, with an even-par 284.

1980 Baltusrol, Golf Club, NJ
At 40, Jack Nicklaus wins his fourth Open and 18th “major” with a record-tieing opening round of 63 and a record-breaking four-round total of 272.

1981 Merion Golf Club, PA
A superb final round of 67 makes Dallas-domiciled David Graham the first and so far the only Australian winner of the Open, by three strokes from George Burns.

1982 Pebble Beach Golf Links, CA
In one of the most dramatic moments in all of championship golf, Tom Watson pitches into the cup from off the green at the 71st hole, then closes with a birdie, to win his first Open from shell-shocked Jack Nicklaus.

1983 Oakmont Country Club, PA
Playing the last 36 holes in a record 10-under-par 132 strokes, Larry Nelson defeats defender Watson by a shot.

1984 Winged Foot Golf Club, NY
Despite severe back problems, Fuzzy Zoeller defeats Australian Greg Norman, 67 to 75, in a play-off notable for the exceptionally friendly behavior of the two protagonists. Their 72-hole totals of 276 represent the only time par has been broken in the four Opens played at Winged Foot.

1985 Oakland Hills Country Club, MI
Andy North wins his second Open - and only his second tournament - by one stroke from Canadian Dave Barr, Taiwanese Tze-Chung Chen and Zimbabwean Denis Watson.

1986 Shinnecock Hills Golf Club, NY
At 43, Raymond Floyd becomes the oldest Open champion with a two-stroke victory over Lanny Wadkins and Chip Beck.

1987 The Olympic Club, CA
Three straight birdies towards the close of his final round give Scott Simpson the title by one stroke over Tom Watson. No other golfers break par for the 72 holes.

1988 The Country Club, MA
Curtis Strange pars the final hole of regulation play from a bunker to tie England’s Nick Faldo, then wins the play-off, 71 to 75.

1989 Oak Hill Country Club, NY
Strange becomes only the fourth golfer to defend the his title successfully, and the first since Ben Hogan 38 years previously, as his chief contender after 54 holes, Tom Kite, soars to a final-round 78.

1990 Medinah Country Club, IL
Appearing in the championship by way of a USGA exemption, Hale Irwin makes a 45-foot, run-around-the-green-for-glory putt on the 72nd hole to force a play-off with little-known Mike Donald. One day later, Irwin’s birdie at the 91st hole wins him his third U.S. Open title.

1991 Hazeltine National Golf Club, MN
On Sunday, Scott Simpson leads Payne Stewart by two strokes going into the 16th hole, but falls into a tie by the 18th. On Monday, Simpson again leads by two strokes with three holes to play, but bogeys all of them to lose to Stewart, 75-77.

1992 Pebble Beach Golf Links, CA
The all-time leading money winner on the U.S. Tour, Tom Kite, finally gets his first major. With the course playing at its most difficult, Kite’s superb final round of even par gives him a two shot victory.

1993 Baltusrol Golf Club, NJ
Lee Janzen surprised everyone, not only by winning the championship, but by tieing Jack Nicklaus’ U.S. Open record, also at Baltusrol, for low score. His 272 was two shots better than 1991 Open winner, Payne Stewart.

1994 Oakmont Country Club, PA
In a three way play-off on Monday, young South African superstar Ernie Els defeated Loren Roberts on the 92nd hole making this the longest Open since 1946. Scotsman Colin Montgomerie had tied on Sunday, but faded in Monday’s heat.

1995 Shinnecock Hills Golf Club, NY
One hundred years following the playing of the first Open, Corey Pavin is victorious after producing the shot of a lifetime on the 72nd hole: a partially blind 4-wood from 228 yards out to within three feet. Although Pavin misses the birdie putt, the par is good enough to beat Greg Norman by two shots.

1996 Oakland Hills Country Club, MI
Steve Jones and Tom Lehman come to the final tee tied. Jones finds the fairway but Lehman’s tee shot bounces hard and comes to rest under the lip of a bunker. A perfect 7-iron and two putts give Jones a closing par, his third sub-par round in a row at Oakland Hills (the only player in the field to accomplish the feat) and the title.

1997 Congressional Country Club, MD
In a wild four-man battle among Ernie Els, Colin Montgomerie, Jeff Maggert and Tom Lehman, the South African Els keeps his head and wins his second U.S. Open championship. After nine holes, all are tied, but one by one the others produce bogeys or worse until only Els remains atop the leaderboard.

1998 The Olympic Club, CA
Lee Janzen comes from a five-shot deficit to grab the trophy from first, second and third round leader Payne Stewart. The course offers ferocious rough, strange lies, lightening fast greens, controversial pin positions, and more - allowing only one of the top five finishers a score better than 73 on Sunday - Lee Janzen’s brilliant 68.

1999 Pinehurst Resort and Country Club, NC
A championship that will never be forgotten. Payne Stewart, Phil Mickelson, Tiger Woods, Vijay Singh and David Duval all challenged on Sunday. But the most experienced is the one who proves best. Payne Stewart makes par at the 16th hole with a 25-foot putt, makes a four-footer for birdie at 17 and then makes the longest putt ever, a 20-foot putt for par, to win the Open at the 72nd hole. Just four months later, Payne Stewart and five others tragically die in a freak jet plane accident