In 2013 who became the first Englishman since Tony Jacklin in 1970, to win The US Open Golf Championship?
"2013 U.S. Open (golf) The 2013 United States Open Championship was the 113th U.S. Open, held June 13–16 at the East Course of Merion Golf Club in Ardmore, Pennsylvania, west of Philadelphia. Justin Rose won his first major title, two strokes ahead of runners-up Jason Day and Phil Mickelson. Rose became the first player from England to win the U.S. Open since Tony Jacklin in 1970, and the first to win any major since Nick Faldo won his third Masters in 1996. It was a record sixth runner-up finish for Mickelson and defending champion Webb Simpson tied for 32nd place."
"2013 Open Championship The 2013 Open Championship was a men's major golf championship and the 142nd Open Championship, held from 18–21 July at Muirfield Golf Links in Gullane, East Lothian, Scotland. Phil Mickelson shot a final round 66 (−5) to win his fifth major title, three strokes ahead of runner-up Henrik Stenson. Mickelson began the round five strokes back, in a tie for ninth place. Ian Poulter, Adam Scott, and 54-hole leader Lee Westwood tied for third, four back of Mickelson. The 2013 event was the 16th Open Championship played at Muirfield. The most recent was in 2002, when Ernie"
"in the final. He also beat Tiger Woods by a stroke in the semi-final, after progressing from his group with a 100% record. On 25 March 2013, Rose finished second to Tiger Woods at the Arnold Palmer Invitational and rose to a career-high of third in the world rankings. On 16 June 2013, Rose won his maiden major championship at the U.S. Open at Merion Golf Club by two strokes over Phil Mickelson and Jason Day. He became the first Englishman in 43 years to win the U.S. Open. He also ended a 17 year major drought for English golfers"
"committed myself to the process this week. I committed myself to putting a strategy in place that I hoped would work in five-to-10 years in delivering major championships ... it's a moment where you can look back and think childhood dreams have come true."" He was the first English player to win the U.S. Open since Tony Jacklin in 1970, and the first to win any major since Nick Faldo won the 1996 Masters. Rose, who entered the tournament ranked fifth in the world, moved up to third as a result of the win. For Mickelson, it was his sixth"
"Tony Jacklin Anthony Jacklin CBE (born 7 July 1944) is a retired English golfer. He was the most successful British player of his generation, winning two major championships. He was also the most successful European Ryder Cup captain ever. Jacklin was second in the BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 1969 and 1970. Jacklin was born in the North Lincolnshire town of Scunthorpe in 1944, the son of a truck driver. He attended Henderson Avenue Primary School in the town. He turned professional in 1962. In 1969, Jacklin became the first British player to win The Open Championship in"
"2013 PGA Championship The 2013 PGA Championship was the 95th PGA Championship, played August 8–11 at the East Course of Oak Hill Country Club in Pittsford, New York, a suburb southeast of Rochester. Jason Dufner won his first major title, two strokes ahead of runner-up Jim Furyk. This was the third PGA Championship at the East Course at Oak Hill; Jack Nicklaus won in 1980 and Shaun Micheel in 2003. It also hosted three U.S. Opens, in 1956, 1968, and 1989, and the Ryder Cup in 1995. East Course Previous course lengths for major championships The following qualification criteria were"
"is often hailed as ""the greatest act of sportsmanship in history."" The trendsetting Harbour Town Golf Links opens on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, designed by Pete Dye with assistance from Jack Nicklaus. 1970 So often disappointed in final-round battles at Augusta, Billy Casper finally wins a Masters championship, after a playoff against fellow veteran Gene Littler. Tony Jacklin becomes the first British winner of the U.S. Open for almost 50 years, at Hazeltine. As of 2009, he is the last European to win this event. Jack Nicklaus wins a playoff against Doug Sanders to win the British Open at"
"2010 U.S. Open (golf) The 2010 United States Open Championship was the 110th U.S. Open, held June 17–20 in Pebble Beach, California. Graeme McDowell of Northern Ireland won his first major title, one stroke ahead of runner-up Grégory Havret of France. McDowell was the first European to win the U.S. Open in forty years, since Tony Jacklin of England won in 1970, which started a period in which four out of five U.S. Open champions between 2010-14 were European. This was the fifth U.S. Open to be played at Pebble Beach Golf Links (it also hosted in 2000, 1992, 1982,"
"1970 U.S. Open (golf) The 1970 U.S. Open was the 70th U.S. Open, held June 18–21 at Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, Minnesota, a suburb southwest of Minneapolis. Tony Jacklin shot under-par in all four rounds on his way to a seven-stroke victory and his only U.S. Open title, the second of his two major championships. He was the first champion born in England since Cyril Walker in 1924. Jacklin led wire-to-wire and was hardly threatened throughout the championship. He took a four-shot lead over Dave Hill into the final round, and despite bogeys at the 7th and 8th,"
"professional sport have come in golf. Northern Ireland has contributed more major champions in the modern era than any other European country, with three in the space of just 14 months from the US Open in 2010 to The Open Championship in 2011. Notable golfers include Fred Daly (winner of The Open in 1947), Ryder Cup players Ronan Rafferty and David Feherty, leading European Tour professionals David Jones, Michael Hoey (a winner on Tour in 2011) and Gareth Maybin, as well as three recent major winners Graeme McDowell (winner of the US Open in 2010, the first European to do"
"In June 2010, McDowell won the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach, becoming the first Northern Irishman to accomplish the feat, and the first European U.S. Open winner since Tony Jacklin in 1970. He was also the first player from the United Kingdom to win a major championship since Paul Lawrie won The Open Championship in 1999, and the first Northern Irishman to win a major since Fred Daly won the 1947 Open Championship. McDowell was only the second European to win the U.S. Open since 1925. He rose to number 13 in the world rankings, then a career high, and"
"after each of the first two rounds. ""Thursday, June 18, 1970 ""Friday, June 19, 1970 ""Saturday, June 20, 1970 ""Sunday, June 21, 1970 1970 U.S. Open (golf) The 1970 U.S. Open was the 70th U.S. Open, held June 18–21 at Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, Minnesota, a suburb southwest of Minneapolis. Tony Jacklin shot under-par in all four rounds on his way to a seven-stroke victory and his only U.S. Open title, the second of his two major championships. He was the first champion born in England since Cyril Walker in 1924. Jacklin led wire-to-wire and was hardly threatened"
"PGA Champions<br> Rich Beem, Keegan Bradley (8,9), Mark Brooks, John Daly, Jason Dufner, Pádraig Harrington (10), Martin Kaymer (2,9), Davis Love III, Rory McIlroy (2,4,6,8,9,10), Shaun Micheel, Phil Mickelson (4,6,8,9), Vijay Singh, David Toms, Tiger Woods, Yang Yong-eun 2. Last five U.S. Open Champions<br> Justin Rose (8,9,10), Webb Simpson (8,9), Jordan Spieth (3,8,9,10) 3. Last five Masters Champions<br> Charl Schwartzel (6,8), Adam Scott (6,8), Bubba Watson (8,9,10) 4. Last five Open Champions<br> Darren Clarke, Ernie Els (6), Zach Johnson (8,9) 5. Current Senior PGA Champion<br> Colin Montgomerie 6. 15 low scorers and ties in the 2014 PGA Championship<br> Kevin Chappell,"
"series of the BBC1 Saturday night entertainment competition, ""Strictly Come Dancing"". On 6 October 2013, he was the first celebrity to be eliminated from the show. European Tour playoff record (1–1) ^The European Tour was founded in 1972; the 1969 Open Championship was retroactively classified as a PGA Tour win in 2002.<br> Major championships are shown in bold. PGA Tour playoff record (1–1) CUT = missed the halfway cut ""T"" indicates a tie for a place. Tony Jacklin Anthony Jacklin CBE (born 7 July 1944) is a retired English golfer. He was the most successful British player of his generation,"
"2013 PGA Championship. PGA Tour playoff record (3–1) Defeated Jason Dufner in a three-hole playoff: Bradley (3-3-4=10) and Dufner (4-4-3=11) CUT = missed the half-way cut<br> ""T"" = tied ""Results not in chronological order prior to 2015."" QF, R16, R32, R64 = Round in which player lost in match play<br> ""T"" = Tied <nowiki>*</nowiki> As of the 2018 season. Professional Keegan Bradley Keegan Hansen Bradley (born June 7, 1986) is an American professional golfer who competes on the PGA Tour. He has won four tour events, most notably the 2011 PGA Championship. He is one of four golfers to win"
"Rickie Fowler and Sergio García. The victory was the player's third major championship of his career, having led the field after each round of the tournament. McIlroy and Tiger Woods are the only golfers to win both The Silver Medal and The Gold Medal at The Open Championship. His third major title having won the 2011 U.S. Open and 2012 PGA Championship, McIlroy became the third European to win three different majors and joined Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods as one of three golfers since the first Masters Tournament in 1934 to win three majors by the age of 25."
"Els won his third major championship in a playoff over Stuart Appleby, Steve Elkington, and ultimately in a sudden-death playoff over Thomas Levet. Nick Faldo won the previous Open at the venue, in 1992; the first was in 1892. The course was extended since 2002. Lengths of the course for Opens since 1950: Each player is classified according to the first category in which he qualified, but other categories are shown in parentheses. 1. The Open Champions aged 60 or under on 21 July 2013 Mark Calcavecchia (3,4), Stewart Cink (2,3), Darren Clarke (2,3), Ben Curtis (2,3), David Duval, Ernie"
"Open Championship and PGA Championship in the same year since Walter Hagen in 1924. It was accomplished the following year by Nick Price, and later by Tiger Woods in 2000 and 2006, Pádraig Harrington in 2008 and Rory McIlroy in 2014. It was the sixth major championship at Inverness, which hosted the PGA Championship in 1986 and four U.S. Opens (1920, 1931, 1957, and 1979). Norman was also the British Open champion and PGA runner-up in 1986, when Bob Tway holed out from a greenside bunker at the 72nd hole for birdie. Forced to sink his chip to tie, Norman"
"Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player, Nick Price, Jeff Sluman, Dave Stockton, Hal Sutton, Lee Trevino, Bob Tway, Lanny Wadkins 2. Last five U.S. Open Champions Lucas Glover, Graeme McDowell (6,8,9,10), Justin Rose (6,8,9,10), Webb Simpson (8,9) 3. Last five Masters Champions Ángel Cabrera (8), Charl Schwartzel (8), Adam Scott (6,8,10), Bubba Watson (6,8,9) 4. Last five British Open Champions Stewart Cink, Darren Clarke, Ernie Els (8) 5. Current Senior PGA Champion Kōki Idoki 6. 15 low scorers and ties in the 2012 PGA Championship Tim Clark (8), Ben Curtis, Jamie Donaldson, Peter Hanson (9), David Lynn (8), Geoff Ogilvy, Carl Pettersson"
"final. Roger Federer's streak of nine consecutive US Open quarterfinals ended when he lost to Tommy Robredo in the fourth round, marking his earliest exit from the tournament since 2003. Novak Djokovic ""(Final)"" 2013 US Open – Men's Singles Andy Murray was the defending champion, but was defeated in the quarterfinals by Stan Wawrinka. Rafael Nadal won the title, defeating Novak Djokovic in the final to claim a second US Open title and win his thirteenth grand slam. The win moved him to 13 grand slam titles, and moved to third place on the all time men's singles Grand Slam"
"came to rest next to the cup for a tap-in birdie. Two months earlier, Nicklaus had won the Masters to become the first in a dozen years (Arnold Palmer in 1960) to win golf's first two major titles of the season. At the British Open in July, Nicklaus shot a final round 66 to finish second, one stroke behind Lee Trevino, ending his Grand Slam run in 1972. (Palmer also missed a third straight major by a stroke at the 1960 British Open.) Through 2017, only one golfer has won the Masters, U.S. Open, and British Open in the same"
"18 years, winning by two strokes at Royal Lytham & St Annes. The following season he won his second major title, the U.S. Open by seven strokes on a windblown Hazeltine National Golf Club course. It was the only U.S. Open victory by a European player in an 84-year span (1926–2009); Northern Ireland's Graeme McDowell ended that streak in 2010. Jacklin won eight events on the European Tour between its first season in 1972 and 1982. He also won tournaments in Europe prior to the European Tour era, and in the United States, South America, South Africa and Australasia. His"
"Sluman, Dave Stockton, Hal Sutton, Lee Trevino, Bob Tway, Lanny Wadkins 2. Last five U.S. Open Champions Graeme McDowell (6,8,9), Justin Rose (8,9,10), Webb Simpson (8,9,10) 3. Last five Masters Champions Charl Schwartzel (8), Adam Scott (6,8,10), Bubba Watson (8,9,10) 4. Last five British Open Champions Darren Clarke, Ernie Els, Louis Oosthuizen 5. Current Senior PGA Champion Colin Montgomerie 6. 15 low scorers and ties in the 2013 PGA Championship Jonas Blixt (8), Roberto Castro, Jason Day (8,10), Jim Furyk (8,9), Zach Johnson (8,9,10), Marc Leishman (8), Scott Piercy, Henrik Stenson (8,10), Kevin Streelman (8,10), Steve Stricker (8,9), Marc Warren,"
"the 2013 Open Championship Zach Johnson (5,13,15), Hunter Mahan (5,13,15), Hideki Matsuyama (5,15,20), Francesco Molinari (5,6), Ian Poulter (5,6), Adam Scott (5,10,13,15,17), Henrik Stenson (5,6,13), Lee Westwood (5,6) 5. The first 50 players on the Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR) for Week 21, 2014 Thomas Bjørn (6), Jonas Blixt, Keegan Bradley (11,13,15), Jason Day (13,15), Graham DeLaet (13,15), Luke Donald (7,13), Jamie Donaldson (6), Victor Dubuisson (6), Jason Dufner (11,13,15), Harris English, Matt Every, Rickie Fowler, Jim Furyk (13), Stephen Gallacher (6), Sergio García (6,13), Bill Haas (13,15), Russell Henley, Miguel Ángel Jiménez (6), Dustin Johnson (13), Matt Jones, Martin"
"the 2008 PGA Championship. Clarke went on to win the 2011 Open Championship. Two other golfers, both from North Ireland, have had international successes in the 21st century. Rory McIlroy has several major tournament wins, including the 2011 U.S. Open, setting 11 Open records. He was world number one in the Official World Golf Ranking for 95 weeks. Graeme McDowell won the 2010 U.S. Open, becoming the first player from either side of the Irish border to win the U.S. Open, as well as the first European to win that event since England's Tony Jacklin in 1970. McDowell also won"
"2014 Open Championship The 2014 Open Championship was a men's major golf championship and the 143rd Open Championship, held from 17–20 July at Royal Liverpool Golf Club in Merseyside, England. Rory McIlroy won his first Open Championship, two strokes ahead of runners-up Rickie Fowler and Sergio García, and became only the sixth to win the championship going wire-to-wire after 72 holes (being the sole leader after each round). It was McIlroy's third major title, having won the U.S. Open in 2011 and the PGA Championship in 2012; he became the first European to win three different majors and joined Jack"
"in 1953, upon his return from winning the British Open, the only time he played the event. With that victory, Hogan became just the second player, after Gene Sarazen, to win all four of the modern major championships—the Masters, U.S. Open, British Open, and PGA Championship. Hogan remains the only player to win the Masters, U.S. Open, and British Open in the same calendar year (1953). His 14-under par at the 1953 Masters set a record that stood for a dozen years; as of 2018, he remains one of just twelve (Jack Nicklaus, Raymond Floyd, Ben Crenshaw, Tiger Woods, David"
"1969 Open Championship The 1969 Open Championship was the 98th Open Championship, held from 9–12 July at the Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club in Lytham St Annes, England. Tony Jacklin won the first of his two major championships, two strokes ahead of Bob Charles. Jacklin was the first Briton to win The Open since 1951, and it was another sixteen years until the next, Sandy Lyle in 1985. It was the fifth Open Championship at Lytham & St Annes, which has hosted eleven times, most recently in 2012. ""Wednesday, 9 July 1969"" ""Thursday, 10 July 1969"" Amateurs: ""Tupling"
"2013 US Open – Men's Singles Andy Murray was the defending champion, but was defeated in the quarterfinals by Stan Wawrinka. Rafael Nadal won the title, defeating Novak Djokovic in the final to claim a second US Open title and win his thirteenth grand slam. The win moved him to 13 grand slam titles, and moved to third place on the all time men's singles Grand Slam wins list, passing Roy Emerson. Both Djokovic and Nadal were in contention for the World No. 1 ranking at the start of the tournament but Djokovic retained the top position by reaching the"
"George Coetzee, Nicolas Colsaerts, Jamie Donaldson, Branden Grace, Thorbjørn Olesen, Thaworn Wiratchant. 1. Past Masters Champions<br> Ángel Cabrera, Fred Couples (11), Ben Crenshaw, Trevor Immelman, Zach Johnson (15,16,17,18,19), Bernhard Langer, Sandy Lyle, Phil Mickelson (11,15,16,17,18,19), Larry Mize, José María Olazábal, Mark O'Meara, Charl Schwartzel (18,19), Vijay Singh, Craig Stadler, Bubba Watson (11,15,17,18,19), Tom Watson, Mike Weir, Tiger Woods (2,13,15,16,17,18,19), Ian Woosnam 2. Last five U.S. Open Champions<br> Lucas Glover, Graeme McDowell (11,12,18,19), Rory McIlroy (4,14,15,16,17,18,19), Webb Simpson (12,15,17,18,19) 3. Last five British Open Champions<br> Stewart Cink, Ernie Els (13,15,17,18,19), Pádraig Harrington (4,11,12), Louis Oosthuizen (11,15,17,18,19) 4. Last five PGA Champions<br>"
"winning nearly all of the US Open championships before World War I. American golfers later became dominant, but Britain has continued to produce leading golfers, with an especially strong period in the 1980s and 1990s. There are usually more British golfers than others in the top 100 of the Official World Golf Ranking relative to population, that is to say more than a fifth as many. Several British golfers have reached the world's top 10 in the early 2000s. England's Lee Westwood ended Tiger Woods' five-year reign atop the rankings in autumn 2010. In May 2011, fellow Englishman Luke Donald"
"Martin Kaymer (9), Davis Love III, Shaun Micheel, Phil Mickelson (3,8,9,10), Vijay Singh (8), David Toms (6,8), Tiger Woods (2,8,9,10), Y. E. Yang The following former champions did not compete: Paul Azinger, Jack Burke, Jr., Steve Elkington, Dow Finsterwald, Raymond Floyd, Doug Ford, Al Geiberger, Wayne Grady, David Graham, Hubert Green, Don January, John Mahaffey, Larry Nelson, Bobby Nichols, Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player, Nick Price, Jeff Sluman, Dave Stockton, Hal Sutton, Lee Trevino, Bob Tway, Lanny Wadkins 2. Last five U.S. Open champions Lucas Glover, Graeme McDowell (8,9), Rory McIlroy (8,9,10), Webb Simpson (8,10) 3. Last five Masters champions Ángel"
"Open de France Thomas Bjørn, Mikko Ilonen, Brett Rumford, Richard Sterne, Marc Warren 9. The Scottish Open Champion for 2013 10. The U.S. Open Champions for 2009–2013 Lucas Glover 11. The Masters Tournament Champions for 2009–2013 Ángel Cabrera 12. The PGA Champions for 2008–2012 Yang Yong-eun 13. The Players Champions for 2011–2013 K. J. Choi 14. The leading 30 qualifiers for the 2012 Tour Championship John Huh, John Senden 15. First 5 PGA Tour members and any PGA Tour members tying for 5th place, not exempt in the top 20 of the PGA Tour FedEx Cup points list for 2013"