Europeans at the US Open -US PGA Tour
Angel Cabrera, Padraig Harrington and Trevor Immelman, three current Major Champions, will lead The European Tour’s finest into battle against the longest course in Major Championship history for the US Open Championship at Torrey Pines. Cabrera, the defending champion, Harrington, The Open Champion, and Immelman, winner of the Masters Tournament in April, will line-up alongside 35 other European Tour Members on the South Course at Torrey Pines where they will face a staggering 7,643 yard test.
This beats the previous longest course for a Major Championship of 7,561 yards for the 2006 US PGA Championship at Medinah and the 7,264 yards for the US Open Championship at Winged Foot in 2006. Indeed, the par four sixth, at 515 yards, will be the longest par four in US Open Championship history. Such a demanding challenge could suit the big hitting Cabrera, aiming to become only the seventh player to successfully defend the title following his unforgettable victory at Oakmont Country Club 12 months ago, where he held off the challenge of World Number One Tiger Woods and the rest of the world’s best.
Harrington and Immelman will both arrive in San Diego in confident mood having finished joint fourth and joint second respectively in last week’s Stanford St Jude Championship, and Immelman in particular will be relishing the visit to Torrey Pines having won the only previous USGA event to be played over the South Course – the 1998 US Amateur Public Links Championship.
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