US OPEN '20: Capsules of 5 previous US Opens at Winged Foot

1929 U.S. Open

Winner: Bobby Jones.

Runner-up: Al Espinoza.

Winning Score: 294.

Margin of victory: Playoff (Jones shot 141 over 36 holes; Espinoza shot 164).

First-place check: $0 (Jones was an amateur).

Summary: Jones blew a three-shot lead in the final round and had two 7s on his card. Leading by four with three holes to play, he made triple bogey on the 15th and bogey on the 16th. He was in a bunker on the final hole and blasted out to 12 feet. He made the par putt to close with a 79 and get into a playoff with Espinoza, who shot 75. The playoff was 36 holes, and Espinoza had no chance. Jones shot 141 to win the playoff by 23 shots and collect his third U.S. Open title.

FILE - In this June 16, 1974 file photo, Hale Irwin is shown with his trophy after winning the U.S. Open Championship title at the Winged Foot Golf Club in Mamaroneck, N.Y. (AP Photo, File)

1959 U.S. Open

Winner: Billy Casper.

Runner-up: Bob Rosburg.

Winning Score: 282.

Margin of victory: 1 shot.

First-place check: $12,000.

Summary: Casper won his first major championship by conquering the contoured greens of Winged Foot, one-putting the last four greens in the third round to build a three-shot lead over Ben Hogan, and finishing the week with 31 one-putt greens. Despite closing with a 74, he beat Rosburg by one shot. Hogan shot 76. Arnold Palmer and Sam Snead started the final round four shots behind but could not make up any ground. Most famous about Casper in this U.S. Open is that he laid up on the long par-3 third hole all four days and each time got up-and-down for par. Charlie Sifford played in his first major and tied for 32nd. Two years later, the PGA of America rescinded its Caucasian-only clause.

FILE - In this June 18, 1984 file photo, Greg Norman holds a towel out toward Fuzzy Zoeller as they walk down the 18th fairway together at Winged Foot Golf Club in Mamaroneck, N.Y. during a playoff for the U.S. Open Championship. (AP Photo, File)

1974 U.S. Open

Winner: Hale Irwin.

Runner-up: Forrest Fezler.

Winning Score: 287.

Margin of victory: 2 shots.

First-place check: $35,000.

Summary: A year after Johnny Miller closed with 63 to win at Oakmont, it appeared the USGA was out for revenge. The greens were firm and fast, the rough was deep and par felt like birdie. The result was what became known as the “Massacre at Winged Foot,” with Irwin winning at 7-over par. Tom Watson had a one-shot lead going into the final round but shot 79. It was at Winged Foot in ’74 when Sandy Tatum, in charge of setting up the course for the USGA, delivered what has become a mantra for the U.S. Open. “Our intention is not to embarrass the greatest players in the world, but to identify them.”

1984 U.S. Open

Winner: Fuzzy Zoeller.

Runner-up: Greg Norman.

Winning Score: 276.

Margin of victory: Playoff (Zoeller shot 67 in the 18-hole playoff; Norman shot 75).

First-place check: $94,000.

Summary: Instead of a massacre, this U.S. Open is remembered more for a white towel. Norman erased a three-shot deficit on the back nine and saved par on the 18th hole with a 40-foot breaking putt. Zoeller was watching from the fairway, thought the putt was for birdie and waved a white towel. Zoeller made par to force a playoff, then buried the Shark the next day with a 67, winning by eight. Walking up the 18th together, it was Norman waving a white towel. It was the second major for Zoeller, and the first leg of the “Grand Slam Playoff” for Norman, the only player to lose all four majors in a playoff.

2006 U.S. Open

Winner: Geoff Ogilvy

Runner-up: Phil Mickelson, Jim Furyk, Colin Montgomerie.

Winning Score: 285.

Margin of victory: 1 shot.

First-place check: $1,225,000.

Summary: This turned out to be a major known as much for the player who won as those who didn’t. Geoff Ogilvy hit a beautiful pitch from the fairway and made a 6-foot par putt. Furyk had a 5-foot par putt on the final hole and missed. Two groups later, Montgomerie was poised to win his first major when he chunked a 7-iron from the middle of the 18th fairway and made double bogey. No one suffered like Mickelson. He had a one-shot lead in the final group when he sliced his tee shot to the left. Instead of pitching back to the fairway, he tried to hit 3-iron on or around the green. It hit a tree. His next shot plugged into the bunker, and he wound up with a double bogey to finish one shot behind. “I just can’t believe that I did that. I am such an idiot,” Mickelson said. It remains the only major he has not won.

Veteran Australia batter Usman Khawaja has announced he will retire from international cricket after the fifth Ashes test beginning Sunday at the Sydney Cricket Ground.

He didn't go quietly.

The Pakistan-born Khawaja, who was the first Muslim to play for Australia, used his retirement announcement Friday to criticize the “racial" stereotyping he experienced during his career.

It will be the 39-year-old Khawaja's 88th and final test — played at the ground where he began his first-class career. Khawaja scored his first Ashes century at the SCG with 171 against England in 2018.

It was also at that the SCG where he revived his career at age 35, scoring two centuries against England. That prompted one of the great late-career revivals, as Khawaja hit seven centuries in his next two years back in the side.

But Khawaja’s position had come under scrutiny and criticism this season after being unable to open in the first Ashes test in Perth due to back spasms and then missing the Brisbane test with the injury.

He was then initially left out in Adelaide until Steve Smith’s vertigo allowed Khawaja to return, before an 82 in the first innings there ensured he would stay in the side for the fourth test in Melbourne. Australia, with a 3-1 lead going into the fifth test, has retained the Ashes.

Khawaja said he felt he was treated “a little bit different, even to now,” because of his Pakistan and Muslim background.

"Different in the way I’ve been treated, different in how things have happened,” he said at a media conference in Sydney. “I had back spasms, it was something I couldn’t control. The way the media and the past players came out and attacked me . . . I copped it for about five days straight. Everyone was piling in.

“Once the racial stereotypes came in, of me being lazy, it was things I’ve dealt with my whole life. Pakistani, West Indian, colored players...we’re selfish, we only care about ourselves, we don’t care about the team, we don’t train hard enough."

Khawaja said he knew the end of his career was imminent.

“I guess moving into this series, I had an inkling this would be the last series," he said. "I’m glad I can go out on my own terms.”

Khawaja has scored 6,206 runs at an average of 43.49 in his 87 tests with 16 centuries and 28 half-centuries.

“Usman has made a huge contribution to Australian cricket both through his outstanding achievements as one of our most stylish and resilient batters . . . and off field, particularly through the Usman Khawaja Foundation,” Cricket Australia chief executive Todd Greenberg said in a statement.

“Usman has been one of Australia’s most reliable opening batters and testament to his success was him being named ICC test cricketer of the year the same season that Australia won the World Test Championship (in 2023).”

Khawaja said his No. 1 emotion on announcing his retirement was “contentment.”

“I’m very lucky to have played so many games for Australia the way I have,” Khawaja said. "I hope I have inspired people along the way.”

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Australian cricketer Usman Khawaja with his wife Rachel and daughters Aisha and Ayla after announcing that he will retire from international cricket following the fifth and final Ashes cricket test between England and Australia in Sydney, Australia, Friday, Jan. 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)

Australia Usman Khawaja, centre, sits with teammates after announcing he will retire from international cricket following the fifth and final Ashes cricket test between England and Australia in Sydney, Australia, Friday, Jan. 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)

Australia Usman Khawaja warms up during a practice session ahead of the fifth and final Ashes cricket test between England and Australia in Sydney, Australia, Friday, Jan. 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)

Australia's Travis Head, right, is congratulated by teammate Usman Khawaja after reaching 50 runs during play on day three of the third Ashes cricket test between England and Australia in Adelaide, Australia, Friday, Dec. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/James Elsby)

Australia's Usman Khawaja sign autograph to fans after they won the third Ashes cricket test match against England in Adelaide, Australia, Sunday, Dec. 21, 2025 (AP Photo/James Elsby)