Perhaps Judy Rankin said it best: Anyone who has played golf competitively views winning the U.S. Open three times as an eye-popping feat, whether male or female.
“We know the difficultly of that,” said Rankin, “and there are so few people who have done it.”
A dozen players, in fact, have won three or more U.S. Opens: Mickey Wright (4), Jack Nicklaus (4), Betsy Rawls (4), Ben Hogan (4), Willie Anderson (4), Bobby Jones (4), Babe Zaharias (3), Tiger Woods (3), Annika Sorenstam (3), Hollis Stacy (3), Hale Irwin (3) and Susie Maxwell Berning (3).
