The US Open 2009

Lucas Glover Wins The US Open 2009!

Lucas Glover, the 29 year old from South Carolina, has won the2009 US Open!

Latest News from The US Open 2009:
A bogey at the first hole of the final round by Ricky Barnes means he and Lucas Glover will hold a five shot lead over the chasing pack when play at the US Open resumes on Monday morning.

The fourth round of the weather-delayed championship finally got under way late on Sunday but Barnes, who briefly led by six at one stage earlier in the day, made a mess of the opening hole and then hooked his tee shot into the hay at the next before the hooter sounded to end play.

The tour rookie opted to mark his ball rather than hack it out and will do well to make bogey when he returns, while playing partner Glover is nicely positioned in the fairway after safely parring the first.

The good news for the leaders was that none of their closest pursuers fared much better - the penultimate pairing of David Duval and Ross Fisher both bogeyed the first with the latter facing a testing par putt at the second hole when he comes back in the morning.

However, Phil Mickelson and Hunter Mahan remain on two under par having completed two holes - the former seeing two birdie attempts slip agonisingly by.

Just 11 players were under par when the final round got under way but that was reduced to seven in the two hours or so of play the fading light allowed.

Ominously, Tiger Woods got it to level par for the tournament - picking up a shot with a birdie at the seventh, playing on after the hooter when he drilled a four iron to eight feet and coolly knocked in the putt in near-darkness.

Woods had failed to get his round going after dropping a shot at the first, and although he birdied the next he saw two good chances slip by before the final blow that he hopes will send a message to those further up the leaderboard.

The defending champion could be thinking a score of three or four under par may be good enough for a play-off, and if his putter gets hot for the first time this week he may yet land a 15th major title.

Play is set to resume at 9am local time (2pm BST) and if a play-off is required USGA officials are confident of squeezing in another 18 holes in order to find a new champion.

Day One:

The first round of the 109th US Open at Bethpage was abandoned as torrential rain in New York left the Black course waterlogged. There was only around 3 hours of play before the USGA decided to halt proceedings at 1015 local time (1515 GMT) as rain made the greens unplayable.

Although squeegees were being used on every green, organisers were left with no choice as pools of water quickly built up. Despite forecasters predicting a break in the rain, the relentless downpour continued until, at around 1400 local time (1900 GMT), play was finally abandoned for the day.