Preview - U.S. Senior Open Championship 2012

DATES: Thursday, July 12th through Sunday, July 15th

SITE: Indianwood Golf & Country Club (Old Course), Lake Orion, Michigan

COURSE ARCHITECT: Wilfrid Reid and William Connellan (1925), Kevin Aldridge (2011)

PAR: 70

YARDAGE: 6,862

Hole-By-Hole:	1 - Par 5 508 Yds	10 - Par 4 358 Yds
	2 - Par 4 399 Yds	11 - Par 4 390 Yds
	3 - Par 3 160 Yds	12 - Par 4 489 Yds
	4 - Par 4 430 Yds	13 - Par 3 217 Yds
	5 - Par 3 205 Yds	14 - Par 4 428 Yds
	6 - Par 4 448 Yds	15 - Par 5 543 Yds
	7 - Par 4 415 Yds	16 - Par 4 451 Yds
	8 - Par 4 404 Yds	17 - Par 3 197 Yds
	9 - Par 4 360 Yds	18 - Par 4 460 Yds
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	35 3,329 Yds	35 3,533 Yds

Annual:	33rd
Defending Champion:	Olin Browne
Runner-Up:	Mark O'Meara
Tournament Record:	267 (Hale Irwin, 2000 - Saucon Valley Country Club)
54-Hole Record:	198 (Olin Browne, 2011 - Inverness Club)
36-Hole Record:	133 (Dave Stockton, 1992 - Saucon Valley Country Club)
	(Simon Hobday, 1994 - Pinehurst Resort & Country Club)
	(Bruce Fleisher, 2000 - Saucon Valley Country Club)
	(Loren Roberts, 2005 - NCR Country Club - South Course)
	(Tom Watson, 2005 - NCR Country Club - South Course)
	(Craig Stadler, 2005 - NCR Country Club - South Course)
	(Tim Jackson, 2009 - Crooked Stick Golf Club)
	(Olin Browne, 2011 - Inverness Club)
18-Hole Record:	62 (Loren Roberts, 2006 - Prairie Dunes Country Club)
9-Hole Record:	29 (Olin Browne, 2011 - Inverness Club)
Total Purse:	$2,600,000 (2011 figures)
Shares:	1st Place - $500,000; 2nd Place - $295,000; 3rd Place - $185,675

2011 Finish
Player	Score	Player	Score
Olin Browne	269	Peter Senior	275
Mark O'Meara	272	Corey Pavin	276
Mark Calcavecchia	273	Michael Allen	276
Joey Sindelar	274	Four players at	277
Hale Irwin	274

Past U.S. Senior Open Winners
Year	Winner (Score) -- Runners-Up
2011	Olin Browne (269) -- Mark O'Meara
	(Inverness Club, Toledo, Ohio)
2010	Bernhard Langer (272) -- Fred Couples
	(Sahalee Country Club (South, North Courses), Sammamish, Washington)
2009	Fred Funk (268) -- Joey Sindelar
	(Crooked Stick Golf Club, Carmel, Indiana)
2008	Eduardo Romero (274) -- Fred Funk
	(The Broadmoor Resort - East Course, Colorado Springs, Colorado)
2007	Brad Bryant (282) -- Ben Crenshaw
	(Whistling Straits - Straits Course, Kohler, Wisconsin)
2006	Allen Doyle (272) -- Tom Watson
	(Prairie Dunes Country Club, Hutchinson, Kansas)
2005	Allen Doyle (274) -- D.A. Weibring, Loren Roberts
	(NCR Country Club - South Course, Kettering, Ohio)
2004	Peter Jacobsen (272) -- Hale Irwin
	(Bellerive Country Club, St. Louis, Missouri)
2003	Bruce Lietzke (277) -- Tom Watson
	(Inverness Club, Toledo, Ohio)
2002	*Don Pooley (274) -- Tom Watson
	(Caves Valley Golf Club, Baltimore, Maryland)
2001	Bruce Fleisher (280) -- Gil Morgan, Isao Aoki
	(Salem Country Club, Peabody, Massachusetts)
2000	Hale Irwin (267) -- Bruce Fleisher
	(Saucon Valley Country Club - Old Course, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania)
1999	Dave Eichelberger (281) -- Ed Dougherty
	(Des Moines Golf & Country Club, West Des Moines, Iowa)
1998	Hale Irwin (285) -- Vicente Fernandez
	(Riviera Country Club, Pacific Palisades, California)
1997	Graham Marsh (280) -- John Bland
	(Olympia Fields C.C. - North Course, Olympia Fields, Illinois)
1996	Dave Stockton (277) -- Hale Irwin
	(Canterbury Golf Club, Beachwood, Ohio)
1995	Tom Weiskopf (275) -- Jack Nicklaus
	(Congressional Country Club - Blue Course, Bethesda, Maryland)
1994	Simon Hobday (274) -- Graham Marsh, Jim Albus
	(Pinehurst Country Club - No. 2, Pinehurst, North Carolina)
1993	Jack Nicklaus (278) -- Tom Weiskopf
	(Cherry Hills Country Club, Denver, Colorado)
1992	Larry Laoretti (275) -- Jim Colbert
	(Saucon Valley Country Club - Old Course, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania)
1991	*Jack Nicklaus (282) -- Chi Chi Rodriguez
	(Oakland Hills Country Club - South Course, Birmingham, Michigan)
1990	Lee Trevino (275) -- Jack Nicklaus
	(Ridgewood Country Club (Center and West Nines, Paramus, New Jersey)
1989	Orville Moody (279) -- Frank Beard
	(Laurel Valley Country Club, Ligonier, Pennsylvania)
1988	*Gary Player (270) -- Bob Charles
	(Medinah Country Club (Number Three, Medinah, Illinois)
1987	Gary Player (270) -- Doug Sanders
	(Brooklawn Country Club, Fairfield, Connecticut)
1986	Dale Douglass (279) -- Gary Player
	(Scioto Country Club, Columbus, Ohio)
1985	Miller Barber (285) -- Roberto DeVicenzo
	(Edgewood Tahoe Golf Club, Stateline, Nevada)
1984	Miller Barber (286) -- Arnold Palmer
	(Oak Hill Country Club, Rochester, New York)
1983	*Billy Casper (288) -- Rod Funseth
	(Hazeltine National Golf Club, Chaska, Minnesota)
1982	Miller Barber (282) -- Gene Littler, Dan Sikes
	(Portland Golf Club, Portland, Oregon)
1981	*Arnold Palmer (289) -- Billy Casper, Bob Stone
	(Oakland Hills Country Club (South Course), Birmingham, Michigan)
1980	Roberto De Vicenzo (285) -- William C. Campbell
	(Winged Foot Golf Club (East Course), Mamaroneck, New York)