{"id":248971,"date":"2026-06-18T23:41:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T23:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/18\/the-u-s-open-champions-since-1996-quiz\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T23:41:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T23:41:36","slug":"the-u-s-open-champions-since-1996-quiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/18\/the-u-s-open-champions-since-1996-quiz\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8216;U.S. Open champions since 1996&#8217; quiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The third Major championship of the 2026 PGA Tour is underway \u2013 despite an early first round hiccup <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/golf\/articles\/first_round_of_us_open_resumes_after_2_hour_fog_delay\/s1_17051_43968150\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>thanks to fog<\/span><\/a> \u2013 with the 126th U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club teeing off on Thursday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span> After missing the cut at the PGA Championship in May, defending champion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/golf\/players\/jj_spaun\/928005\" class=\"yard_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">J.J. Spaun<\/a> is taking a sixth-place and a T-12th-place finish into Southampton, New York. With plenty of chatter about the course heading into the tournament, Spaun shared what he expects from the event.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not going to be easy golf. It\u2019s not going to be ho-hum, very boring golf,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span>Which brings us to today\u2019s quiz. Spaun will look to become the first repeat champion at the U.S. Open since 2017 and 2018. With that being said, how many of the last 30 U.S. Open champions can you name in five minutes?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Good luck!<\/p>\n<p><span><em>Did you like this quiz? Are there any quizzes you\u2019d like to see us make in the future? Let us know your thoughts at quizzes@yardbarker.com, and make sure to subscribe to our Quiz of the Day Newsletter for daily quizzes sent right to your email!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/golf\/articles\/the_us_open_champions_since_1996_quiz\/s1__43968453\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The third Major championship of the 2026 PGA Tour is underway \u2013 despite an early first round hiccup thanks to fog \u2013 with the 126th U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club teeing off on Thursday morning.\u00a0 After missing the cut at the PGA Championship in May, defending champion J.J. Spaun is taking a sixth-place [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":248972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-248971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}