While each men’s golf Major has its unique challenges, the US Open is regarded by many as the hardest to win, as the courses are generally set up to punish almost any mistake.
Despite that, many of the world’s best have lifted the US Open at least once over the years, while greats such as Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, Bobby Jones and Ben Hogan achieved it multiple times.
However, for some other players who are rightly regarded as among the best to pick up a club, a US Open title remained elusive. Here are nine of the best players who never won the US Open – and one who still could.
Harry Cooper
Harry Cooper won 30 times on the PGA Tour, but he never claimed a Major title
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Harry Cooper didn’t just find winning the US Open beyond him – he didn’t claim a single Major title, despite enjoying an otherwise glorious career.
The English-American turned pro in 1923 and amassed 30 PGA Tour wins over the next 16 years, but finished runner-up in Majors four times, and that was as good as it got. Even more agonizing was the fact Cooper led twice heading into the final round of the US Open, in 1927 and 1936, only to fall short when winning seemed the more plausible outcome.
Sam Snead
The US Open is the only Major Snead didn’t win
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Snead won the Masters and PGA Championship three times apiece and claimed victory at the 1946 Open, leaving him one US Open title shy of a career Grand Slam.
He finished second on four occasions, too. However, it is the 1939 tournament that most likely gave him nightmares. He only needed to par the 72nd hole to win but conspired to make a triple bogey to finish fifth.
Nick Faldo
Nick Faldo won six Majors, but never the US Open
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After six Major titles, 43 professional wins, and a place in the World Golf Hall of Fame, the Englishman is undoubtedly one of the best players the world has seen, but he never lifted the US Open trophy.
Faldo’s Major wins were shared equally between The Masters and The Open, but he wasn’t far away from adding a US Open title to that list.
Faldo had five top-10 finishes at the tournament, but the first of those was as good as it got when, in 1988, he missed a 25-foot birdie putt on the 18th that would have handed him the title. The next day, he and…
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