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| Tournament information | |
|---|---|
| Dates | June 17–20, 2021 |
| Location | San Diego, California 32°54′14″N 117°14′46″W / 32.90389°N 117.24611°W |
| Course(s) | Torrey Pines Golf Course South Course |
| Organized by | USGA |
| Tour(s) | PGA Tour European Tour Japan Golf Tour |
| Statistics | |
| Par | 71 |
| Length | 7,685 yards (7,027 m) |
| Field | 156 players, 71 after cut |
| Cut | 146 (+4) |
| Prize fund | $12,500,000 |
| Winner's share | $2,250,000 |
| Champion | |
 Jon Rahm | |
| 278 (−6) | |
| Location map | |
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The 2021 United States Open Championship was the 121st U.S. Open, the national open golf championship of the United States. It was a 72-hole stroke play tournament that was played June 17–20 on the South Course at Torrey Pines Golf Course in La Jolla, a community of San Diego, California. The South Course previously hosted in 2008, which was won by Tiger Woods in a playoff.
The field consisted of 156 players, with 88 gaining their place through automatic exemption criteria and the remaining 68 making it through qualifying, including two alternates. The defending champion was Bryson DeChambeau, who won the 120th U.S. Open, which had been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, at Winged Foot in September 2020.
Jon Rahm made a birdie on each of the final two holes to become the first U.S. Open champion from Spain and win his first major championship. Rahm finished one shot ahead of South African Louis Oosthuizen, who had held a share of the lead going into the final round. Two strokes further back in third place was American Harris English. DeChambeau had moved into the lead midway through the final round, but fell away with two bogeys, a double-bogey and a quadruple-bogey on the back-nine to finish outside the top twenty. During the tournament, Englishman Richard Bland became the oldest player to hold a share of the 36-hole lead in a U.S. Open; he finished tied for 50th place.