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The 1971 U.S. Open was the 71st U.S. Open held June 17–21 at the East Course of Merion Golf Club in Ardmore Pennsylvania a suburb northwest of Philadelphia. Lee Trevino the 1968 champion won his second U.S. Open defeating Jack Nicklaus by three strokes in an 18-hole playoff. It was the second of Trevino’s six major titles and the second of four times in which Nicklaus was the runner-up to Trevino in a major.The U.S.