2011 US Open Championship at Congressional CC

The 2nd major of the year is upon us with yet again another world number 1, can Luke Donald prove his place at the top of the ‘World Rankings’ or will Phil Mickelson win his first US Open after being the runner up on 5 occasions.

US Open coverage will be on ESPN (Ch 230) Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday 16h00 – 21h00 and 23hoo – 01hoo

 Luke Donald reached the summit of the world ranking with an incredible 10 top-10 finishes in his last 10 starts, including two wins. Now that he’s on top the affable Englishman has many other goals to accomplish. Tiger Woods a 3 time winner of the open will not be competeing due to injury which leaves the door wide open for Luke Donald.

Luke Donald World No.1

This year the US Open will be played at the Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Maryland.

Congressional Country Club 18th

The Congressional Country Club is a prestigious country club and golf course and was opened in 1924 and, with the 2011 U.S. Open, has hosted three U.S. Opens and a PGA Championship, and is an annual stop on the PGA Tour, with the AT&T National, hosted by Tiger Woods.

Defending US Open Champ - Graeme McDowell - Does'nt look like he is going to give that trophy away without a fight

Congressional has two 18-hole golf courses: the flagship Blue Course and the Gold Course. The Blue Course was designed by Devereux Emmet and has been renovated over the years by numerous architects, most recently by Rees Jones. Both courses are known for their rolling terrain, tree-lined fairways, and wide challenging greens. Water hazards also come into play on both courses.

Tree Lined fairways at Congressional CC

The Blue Course has hosted all of the significant golf tournaments contested at Congressional. The course is often considered among the best 100 courses in the United States. The course measures 7,250 yards from the back tees. It is a par 72 (but plays as a par 70 for all PGA tour events with holes 6 and 11 being played as par 4′s) with a course and slope rating of 75.4/142. Bent grass is used for the fairways and for the greens. Until renovated in 2009, Annual Bluegrass (Poa annua) was used for the greens.

Tee Times: (US Eastern Time)

Tee Number 1
7:00 AM

Dae-Hyun Kim
Shane Lowry
Chez Reavie  

7:11 AM

Brad Adamonis
Greg Chalmers
Kirk Triplett  

7:22 AM

Alex Cejka
Marc Leishman
Kevin Streelman  

7:33 AM

Michael Campbell
David Chung (a)
Fred Funk  

7:44 AM (Group to watch)

Paul Casey
K.J. Choi
Matt Kuchar  

7:55 AM (Group to Watch)

Graeme McDowell 
Louis Oosthuizen
Peter Uihlein (a)  

8:06 AM

Johan Edfors
Fredrik Jacobson
Henrik Stenson 

8:17 AM

Ernie Els
Jim Furyk
Davis Love III  

8:28 AM

Jason Day
J.J. Henry
Justin Rose  

8:39 AM

Jeff Overton
Ryan Palmer
Gary Woodland 

8:50 AM

Brandt Jobe
Nick O’Hern
D.A. Points  

9:01 AM

Christo Greyling
Adam Hadwin
Joey Lamielle  

9:12 AM

Jesse Hutchins
Michael Smith
Michael Tobiason Jr.  

12:40 PM

Scott Barr
Maarten Lafeber
Ty Tryon  

12:51 PM

Cheng-Tsung Pan (a)
Matthew Richardson
Geoffery Sisk  

1:02 PM

Ben Crane
Kyung-tae Kim
Bo Van Pelt  

1:13 PM

Peter Hanson
Martin Laird
Mark Wilson  

1:24 PM

Sergio Garcia
Miguel A. Jimenez
Alvaro Quiros  

1:35 PM

Matteo Manassero
Francesco Molinari
Edoardo Molinari  

1:46 PM

Hiroyuki Fujita
Todd Hamilton
Kevin Na  

1:57 PM (Group to Watch)

Rickie Fowler
Hunter Mahan
Ian Poulter  

2:08 PM

Aaron Baddeley
Brandt Snedeker
Camilo Villegas  

2:19 PM

Kevin Chappell
Do-Hoon Kim
Robert Rock  

2:30 PM

Andreas Harto
Jon Mills
Scott Pinckney (a)  

2:41 PM

Elliot Gealy
Steve Irwin (a)
Ryan Nelson  

2:52 PM

Christopher DeForest
Wes Heffernan
Chris Williams (a) 

Tee Number 10 
7:00 AM

Chad Campbell
Harrison Frazar
Marc Turnesa  

7:11 AM

Justin Hicks
Sunghoon Kang
Marcel Siem  

7:22 AM

Brian Gay
Gregory Havret
Thomas Levet  

7:33 AM

Nicholas Colsaerts
Russell Henley (a)
Heath Slocum  

7:44 AM

Angel Cabrera
Stewart Cink
Padraig Harrington  

7:55 AM

Ryo Ishikawa
Anthony Kim
Y.E. Yang 

8:06 AM (Group to Watch)

Luke Donald
Martin Kaymer
Lee Westwood  

8:17 AM

Jonathan Byrd
Bill Haas
Webb Simpson  

8:28 AM (Group to Watch)

Robert Karlsson
Adam Scott
Bubba Watson  

8:39 AM

Tim Petrovic
Scott Piercy
Sam Saunders  

8:50 AM

Brad Benjamin
Zach Byrd
Matthew Edwards  

9:01 AM

Michael Barbosa (a)
William Cauley
Adam Long  

9:12 AM

John Ellis
Michael Whitehead
Will Wilcox  

12:40 PM

Bubba Dickerson
Andres Gonzales
Alexandre Rocha  

12:51 PM

Patrick Cantlay
Robert Dinwiddie
Michael Putnam  

1:02 PM

Robert Garrigus
Scott Hend
John Senden  

1:13 PM

Jason Dufner
Stephen Gallacher
Seung-yul Noh  

1:24 PM

Retief Goosen
Steve Stricker
David Toms  

1:35 PM (Group to Watch)

Dustin Johnson
Rory McIlroy
Phil Mickelson  

1:46 PM

Trevor Immelman
Zach Johnson
Charl Schwartzel  

1:57 PM

Lucas Glover
Geoff Ogilvy
Nick Watney  

2:08 PM

Robert Allenby
Ryan Moore
Rory Sabbatini  

2:19 PM

Briny Baird
David Howell
Kenichi Kuboya  

2:30 PM

Sang-Moon Bae
Charley Hoffman
Alexander Noren  

2:41 PM

Bennett Blakeman (a)
Brian Locke
Brett Patterson (a)  

2:52 PM

Beau Hossler
David May
Chris Wilson