2001 US Open flag Retief Goosen Southern Hills Country Club ryder british pga

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The
2001 United States Open Championship
was the 101st
U.S. Open
, held June 14–18 at
Southern Hills Country Club
in
Tulsa, Oklahoma
. The U.S. Open returned to Southern Hills for the first time since
1977
. Retief Goosen won the first of his two U.S. Open titles in an 18-hole Monday playoff, two strokes ahead of runner-up
Mark Brooks
. The tournament was also notable for ending defending champion
Tiger Woods
' run of four consecutive major championship wins, the "
Tiger Slam
;" he finished seven strokes back in a tie for twelfth. Woods reclaimed the U.S. Open title the
following year
, and won the
PGA Championship
at Southern Hills in
2007
.
The total purse was million with a winner's share of 0,000.
At the end of the final round on Sunday, Brooks three-putted his way out of the lead on the 72nd hole. In the final pairing, co-leaders Goosen and
Stewart Cink
both had approach shots from the 18th fairway. Cink missed the green long and then three-putted from fifteen feet (4.5 m) to double bogey. Goosen had ten feet (3 m) for birdie, but also three-putted to tie Brooks, forcing the next-day playoff