WHERE: Bethpage State Park (Black Course), Farmdale, N.Y.
WHEN: June 13-16
PAR: 35-35--70
DEFENDING CHAMPION: Ratief Goosen
TV: Today, Friday: 10 a.m.-2 p.m., ESPN; 2 p.m.-4 p.m., NBC; 4 p.m.-6 p.m., ESPN.
SATURDAY, SUNDAY: 11:30 a.m.-6 p.m., NBC
BETHPAGE BLACK FACTS
Longest course in U.S. Open history -- 7,214 yards
One of five 18-hole courses on property.
Helps form largest public golf facility in the world.
First true public course to host U.S. Open.
Green fees $31 weekdays, $39 weekends.
Course designed by A.W. Tillinghast in 1936.
U.S.G.A. funded $3 million in renovations to prepare for U.S. Open.
Greens are a poa annua and bent grass mix; fairways are rye grass.
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