Matt Fitzpatrick the hunt for Us Open defense

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Matt Fitzpatrick, the hunt for title defense. The Englishman, author of a truly great feat last year by conquering the first Major in his career, is now on the hunt for a truly complex defense especially for the various implications of this year's event in Los Angeles.

Us Open, schedule

Beyond the absence of Tiger Woods, who is trying to recover from injury problems at least to play the Open Championship in Liverpool, there is in fact a truly tense scenario that cuts with a knife that is easy to assume. Naturally, the reason is given by the PGA Tour-DP World Tour-LIV Golf commercial agreement, with many protagonists left completely displaced (and unaware) of the situation.

The 2023 US Open will begin on Thursday and end on Sunday.

The United States Open (in English: US Open) is an annual men's golf tournament held in the United States and organized by the United States Golf Association. It takes place on the weekend of the third Sunday in June, coinciding with Father's Day.

This tournament is one of the four majors that are held throughout the year and appears on the calendar of both the PGA Tour and the European Tour. The United States Open has been played on various courses throughout its history, characterized by demanding preparation, with high roughs and fast greens.

The US Open is open to any professional or amateur golfer with a current handicap of 1.4. Players can get the spot automatically or have to play a qualifying round. Of the 156 places in the tournament bracket, about half (typically 70 places) are awarded to players automatically (winners of other majors, past tournament winners, players who were in the top 30 in the previous tournament season). PGA Tour, etc.).

Those players who have to fight for the qualification for the tournament must do so in two stages. First, there is a local qualifying phase, which is played over 18 holes in a hundred courses throughout the United States. There are also players who are exempt from playing this first phase and, therefore, go directly to the final qualifying phase. In this second phase, the players who have passed the first round and those who are exempt from it, will face each other on a 36-hole course, which takes place in various golf clubs in the United States and in two courses in Europe and Japan ( a field in each of them).

There is no age limit to compete in the tournament; for example, in 2006 the youngest player to ever participate in the tournament qualified: 15-year-old Tadd Fujikawa from Hawaii.

The prize fund for the tournament in 2014 was $9 million, with the winner's prize being $1.6 million. In line with the other major tournaments, the winner of the US Open receives a number of privileges including automatic invitation to play the other three majors for five years, and automatic qualification for the US Open for the next ten years. . They also automatically enter the PGA Tour for the next five seasons and are invited to play The Players' Tournament for five seasons.

The top 15 players from each edition automatically qualify for the next edition, and the top eight are automatically invited to the Augusta Masters the following season.

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