ARDMORE, PA-Justin Rose won the 113° US Open on a wild Sunday who had four players short of the lead on the final stretch difficult holes at Merion Golf Club. Rose won after pars on the final two holes. The victory was the first major championship of roses. English 32 years had won four times on the PGA Tour before this week. Her best previous finish at a major was third at last year's PGA Championship, but his performance more popular was when he finished fourth as an amateur 17-year-old at the 1998 British Open.
The day began with Mickelson at 1-holding a one-shot lead over Hunter Mahan; Rose was two strokes behind Mickelson, and Jason Day was back to three strokes. Mickelson traded places in the standings for most of the day, with Mahan and day close behind. Mahan and day dropped back with more final six holes each bogeymen. Mickelson was one shot back on hole 18, but missed a long birdie chip give Roses.
Before the tournament, many predicted that it would not be able to withstand the onslaught of today's professionals hit along the relatively short course of Merion. The open was not played to its historic course of suburban Philadelphia since 1981. However, Merion has proven to be a hard test for professionals who struggled with the rough thick and difficult to read greens on the course, and neither player finished under par Rose was 1-over for the tournament after shooting for Sunday. Mickelson shot 74.
One for players to fight in Merion was made favorite Tiger Woods, who finished at 13-over. "I struggled with the speed, especially right around the hole," said Woods. "Putts were breaking a lot more, I gave a little bit more break and then would hang. That's kind of the way it was this week. "