| Tournament information | |
|---|---|
| Dates | June 20–23, 1963 |
| Location | Brookline, Massachusetts |
| Course(s) | The Country Club |
| Organized by | USGA |
| Tour(s) | PGA Tour |
| Statistics | |
| Par | 71 |
| Length | 6,870 yards (6,282 m)[1] |
| Field | 148 players, 51 after cut |
| Cut | 152 (+10) |
| Prize fund | $88,550[2] |
| Winner's share | $17,500 |
| Champion | |
 Julius Boros | |
| 293 (+9), playoff | |
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The 1963 U.S. Open was the 63rd U.S. Open, held June 20–23 at The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts, a suburb southwest of Boston. Julius Boros won his second U.S. Open title in an 18-hole Sunday playoff with Jacky Cupit and Arnold Palmer.[3] The U.S. Open returned to The Country Club for the first time in fifty years to celebrate the golden anniversary of Francis Ouimet's playoff victory in 1913.[4][5] Boros won eleven years earlier in 1952, and won a third major at age 48 at the PGA Championship in 1968.
At 43, Boros was the second-oldest winner in U.S. Open history, and only a month younger than Ted Ray when he won the 1920 Open. For Palmer, it was the second consecutive year he lost in a playoff at the Open.[4]
High winds made scoring conditions extremely difficult throughout the entire week, especially on Saturday during the final two rounds, when gusts approached 50 mph (80 km/h).[4] The winning score of 293 remains the highest in post-World War II U.S. Open history, while the 77.4 final-round scoring average set a record for the post-war era, later broken in 1972 at Pebble Beach. For the first time in U.S. Open history, no amateur made the cut.
Defending champion and Masters winner Jack Nicklaus missed the cut by a stroke; his next missed cut at the U.S. Open came 22 years later in 1985. He rebounded in the next two majors in 1963, missing the playoff at the Open Championship in England by a stroke for third place and won the PGA Championship in Dallas the following week.
This U.S. Open was played the week after Father's Day.
- ^ Grimsley, Will (June 24, 1963). "Boros' 70 wins 63rd Open". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). Associated Press. p. 8.
- ^ "U.S. Open history: 1963". USGA. Archived from the original on June 7, 2012. Retrieved June 19, 2012.
- ^ Bartlett, Charles (June 24, 1963). "Boros wins Open title by 3 strokes". Chicago Tribune. p. 1, sec. 3.
- ^ a b c Wright, Alfred (July 1, 1963). "Big Jay has his day". Sports Illustrated. p. 16.
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