A view of the Winged Foot clubhouse. Getty Images The 120th U.S. Open Championship gets underway this week at Winged Foot Golf Club, a private facility in Mamaroneck, N.Y., a leafy suburb just north of Manhattan. Winged Foot is home to two 18-hole layouts, the East Course and the West Course, both designed by A.W. Tillinghast, a giant of golf architecture`s Golden Age. The West Course, the stage for this year`s event, has hosted the U.S. Open five times before. That includes the Massacre at Winged Foot, which Hale Irwin won in 1974, and what we might describe as the Massacre of Mickelson, which took place in 2006. But these are all details Wikipedia could tell you. In the interest of...
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