The term U.S. Open or US Open is applied to "open" United States-hosted championships in a particular sport (or non-sport organized competitive gaming activity), in which anyone, amateur or professional, American or non-American, and generally, male or female, may compete.
The term most commonly refers to:
- U.S. Open (golf)
- US Open (tennis)
Other uses include (in alphabetical order by sport/game):
- U.S. Open Badminton Championships
- U.S. Open Beer championship
- U.S. Open (bowling)
- U.S. Open Chess Championship
- U.S. Open (crosswords)
- U.S. Open (cycling)
- US Open (darts)
- U.S. Open (go), boardgame tournament
- U.S. Women's Open, golf tournament
- US Open (martial arts) aka ISKA World Martial Arts Championship
- US Open Polo Championship
- U.S. Open pool championships a.k.a. U.S. Open pocket billiards championships, mostly separately administrated, including:
- U.S. Open 14.1 Pocket Billiards Championship (see straight pool); often referred to as the "U.S. Open 14.1 Championship", "U.S. Open 14.1 Pocket Billiards Championship", or "U.S. Open Straight Pool Championship"
- U.S. Open Bank Pool Championship (see bank pool)
- U.S. Open Seven-ball Championship (see seven-ball)
- U.S. Open Eight-ball Championship (see eight-ball)
- U.S. Open Nine-ball Championship
- U.S. Open Ten-ball Championship
- U.S. Open Rubik's Cube Championship
- Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup, soccer (association football) tournament held between American soccer clubs from MLS, minor leagues, and amateur associations
- U.S. Open (squash)
- U.S. Open (swimming)
- U.S. Open of Surfing, surfing competition
- U.S. Open (taekwondo), taekwondo tournament of the United States Taekwondo governing body
- U.S. Open (USACO), United States of America Computing Olympiad-proctored programming competition
- US Open USTA Wheelchair Tennis Championships
- U.S. Open (wrestling)
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—A.I. (Albert Isaac)
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