US Open: Top 5 facts to know - ESPN (blog)
The course will play between 7,200 and 7,600 yards each day of the U. S. Open, which leaves it shy of being the longest course in U. S. Open history. All three holes (11th, 13th, 14th) have scorecard yardages in excess of 530 yards, a year after the fourth hole at Pinehurst set the Open record at 529 yards. After being No. 1 in the world as recently as May 2014, Tiger Woods has dropped to 195th in the Official World Golf Ranking this week. Since the world rankings were launched in 1986, only one player who went on to win a major has been ranked lower than Woods is now: Ben Curtis (396th), who won the 2003 Open Championship in his first career major appearance. Four of those have come in majors: runner-up performances at Merion, the 2014 PGA Championship and the 2015 Masters and a victory at the 2013 Open Championship at Muirfield. Rory McIlroy enters the week as the No. 1 player in the world, but he has missed the cut in his past two starts: the BMW PGA Championship in England and the Irish Open. In his professional career, McIlroy has twice entered a major after missing the cut in his previous start (2013 Open Championship, 2010 Masters). If Jordan Spieth were to win this week, he would become the first player since Woods in 2002 to win the Masters and the U. S. Open in the same. Source: espn.go.com
