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The first US Open Golf Mens Championship was played on October 4, 1895 on a nine-hole course in Newport, Rhode Island. It was a thirty-six hole competition and was played in a single day. Ten professionals and one amateur entered. The winner was a 21-year-old Englishman named Horace Rawlins who had arrived in the U.S. in January that year to take up a position at the host club. He received $150 cash out of a prize fund of $325, plus a $50 gold medal; his club received the Open Championship Cup trophy, which was presented by the USGA. In the beginning, the tournament was dominated by experienced British players until 1911 when John J. McDermott became the first native-born American winner.
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For this year's US Open, IBM consolidated the existing infrastructure from 60 servers down to just nine. IBM Virtualization Engine technology used in the solution includes multiple partitions on the new IBM System p, one of the world's fastest and most energy efficient UNIX servers, the "all-in-one" IBM System i, an integrated platform that securely houses more resources to save energy, and the IBM BladeCenter. By consolidating systems, the new datacenter infrastructure is designed to reduce energy consumption, power and cooling needs. Additionally, IBM's enterprise workload manager (EWLM) has self-managing capabilities to automatically oversee, evaluate and handle workload demands based on business priority, recent access trends and requested resources, to allow the US Open to better manage its website system resources while reducing access and usage bottlenecks.
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The US Open Tennis Championship began as a competition between men and was called theUS National Singles Championship. The first competition took place in Newport , Rhode Island in 1881 at the Newport Casino. Singles and doubles competitons were held.
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For the 17 th consecutive year the US Open is a sellout, with 35,000 tickets sold for each day of the Championship. Ticket-buyers include residents of 26 foreign countries. Some of those making the trip are from Australia, Brazil, Cayman Islands, China, Finland, Jamaica, Malaysia, New Zealand and South Africa.
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The 2006 Choice Hotels US Open Racquetball Championships ended on all high notes today as history was made, and a new two time Champion was added to the list of winners. Christie Van Hees and Jason Mannino became the 2006 Choice Hotels US Open racquetball champions. MORE
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American Express will support its 2007 US Open sponsorship with a multi-platform communications campaign featuring Venus Williams and James Blake. The campaign, which will include the Company's recently launched "Are you a Cardmember?" thematic, will launch with out-of-home units throughout New York City beginning August 20, followed by national and local print and online executions.
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