 Woods became the sixth to win the U.S. Open and the Open Championship in the same year, joining fellow Americans Bobby Jones (1926, 1930), Gene Sarazen (1932), Ben Hogan (1953), Lee Trevino (1971), and Tom Watson (1982).It was the first Open Championship to be telecast in high-definition television in any country, being telecast in the United States by ABC Sports that year.Previous lengths of the course for The Open Championship (since 1950)