Brooks Koepka is striving for his third consecutive U.S. Open title, having won the last two editions at Erin Hills and Shinnecock Hills.
He is the sixth player to successfully defend his U.S. Open title. But has anyone ever done it three times in a row?
One man: Willie Anderson.
The Scotsman captured the U.S. Open in 1903, ’04 and ’05. None had done it before (with the U.S. Open beginning in 1895) and none have done it since.
Anderson first won the U.S. Open in 1901 at Myopia Hunt Club (Massachusetts) and then again in ’03 at Baltusrol Golf Club (New Jersey)
Anderson led after each of the first three rounds on Baltusrol’s original Old Course but was tied with fellow Scotsman Dave Brown after 72 holes.