Club: Olympic Club (Lake Course)

Location: San Francisco, California

Date: June 11-17, 2012

PGA Tour Golf Betting Odds: The 2012 U.S. Open Golf Championship will be played at the historic Olympic Club, located in San Francisco, California. The Championship will be held June 14-17, 2012. Four previous U.S. Open golf championships have been hosted at this venue. They were in 1955, 1966, 1987 and 1998. This event presents golfers around the world with the opportunity to see the world's best professionals compete on this classic stage, and to play some of the nation’s finest public courses including Pasatiempo Golf Club, CordeValle, Pebble Beach, and Spyglass Hill.

Designed by Sam Whiting, The Olympic Club's Lake Course was opened in 1927. The 1958 U.S. Amateur and 1981 U.S. Amateur championships were played at the club, won by Charles Coe and Nathanial Crosby, son of the legendary entertainer Bing Crosby, respectively.

The US Open Championship is known as one of the toughest events on the sporting calendar. The US Open tournament is played each year in June. BookMaker Sportsbook offers the golf betting odds for this tournament and all other events on the PGA Tour calendar. For this 2012 US Open at the Olympic Club's Lake Course, BookMaker has betting odds for tournament winner, match up bets and special prop odds to meet all your golf betting needs.

The US Open is the second of four major golf tournaments played during the year. All of the best players from America, Europe and Asia will be descending on California for what should be an absolute cracker. Phil Mickelson will be the man to watch and he looks full of confidence as we approach the big tournament.

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2011 US Open Winner - Congratulations for McIlroy after US Open

Tributes and messages of praise have flooded in for golfer Rory McIlroy after his sensational US Open win on Sunday night at Congressional.

The 22-year-old from Hollywood, Co Down, secured his first major title with an eight shot victory last night, and is the youngest champion since Bobby Jones in 1923.

Leading the tributes to the young golfer, were his fellow golfers, Padraig Harrington and Graeme McDowell.

Harrington, who is a triple major champion, said McIlroy had set himself apart in potential.

While last year’s US Open champion Graeme McDowell described his fellow Northern Irishman as the best player he had ever seen.

Holding his nerve and composure, Rory silenced many critics with his maturity over the past four days; a complete reversal of the 22-year-old who suffered a meltdown at the Masters back in April, and Graeme McDowell had only praise for the golfer.

US OPEN 2010: Nerveless Graeme McDowell finally ends Britain's 40-year wait to claim US Open crown

Graeme McDowell grew up playing golf on one of the world's best courses in Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland. On a wild and wonderful afternoon over another equally cherished links in Pebble Beach, the 30-year-old Ulsterman ended Britain's 40 year wait for a winner of the United States Open.

McDowell tapped in from just 12 inches to join a list of Pebble Beach champions that reads like a who's who of golf: Jack Nicklaus, Tom Watson, Tom Kite and Tiger Woods.

'It just feels like a dream to join that sort of company,' said McDowell. 'I don't think this will ever sink in, and it might be a while before I'm sober.'

McDowell kept his nerve on an afternoon when all around him were losing theirs. When even Woods was admitting to mental mistakes and the third round leader  Dustin Johnson was imploding so spectacularly he will enter the history books as the definitive example of what pressure can do to a man.