1975 U.S. Open (golf)
| Dates | June 19–23, 1975 |
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| Location | Medinah, Illinois |
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Medinah Country Club, Course No. 3 |
| Organized by | USGA |
| Tour(s) | PGA Tour |
| Par | 71 |
| Length | 7,032 yards (6,430 m) |
| Field | 150, 67 after cut |
| Cut | 149 (+7) |
| Prize fund | $235,700 |
| Winner's share | $40,000 |
 Lou Graham
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| 287 (+3), playoff | |
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The 1975 U.S. Open was the 75th U.S. Open, held June 19–23, at Medinah Country Club in Medinah, Illinois, a suburb northwest of Chicago. Lou Graham defeated John Mahaffey by two strokes in an 18-hole Monday playoff to win his only major championship.
Tom Watson shot 135 (−7) to tie the U.S. Open record for the first 36 holes of play, but 155 (+13) on the weekend forced him down the leaderboard, three shots out of the Graham-Mahaffey playoff. It marked the second straight year Watson failed to maintain a weekend lead in the championship; he was the 54-hole leader in 1974 at Winged Foot. He won the next major a month later in Scotland.
Arnold Palmer finished in a tie for 9th place, his final top-10 finish at the U.S. Open. Jerry Pate tied for 18th place and shared low amateur honors with Jay Haas; Pate won the following year.
Since moving to the four-day format in 1965, this is the only U.S. Open in which the final round was not scheduled for Father's Day, the third Sunday in June.
This was the second U.S. Open at Medinah, the first was held in 1949. It later hosted in 1990, also a playoff, and the PGA Championship in 1999 and 2006, both won by Tiger Woods. Medinah was the venue for the Ryder Cup in 2012.
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