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Tournament Dates: March 25 - April 24, 2005 Description: First played in 1904 at Van Courtland Park, The U.S. Open Championship celebrates its centennial in 2004. One of the three great polo tournaments, along with the British and Argentine fixtures, the tournament attracts the finest players in the world for a month long competition. During the first half of the 20th century it was hosted in the Northeast, principally at Meadowbrook, moving in 1954 to Oakbrook, outside Chicago, where it stayed until 1978. The next eight tournaments were hosted by Retama, in San Antonio, where Memo Gracida recorded his first of a record 15 wins. Not the first in his family to do so, his father and three other Gracida's won the event for Mexico in 1946 at Meadowbrook. Set for 1987 at El Ddorado in Palm Springs, the next four Opens were played at the Horsepark, home to the USPA in Lexington. Since 1996, The U.S. Open Championship has called South Florida its home. It was here that Carlos Gracida added to the Gracida Family's combined record of 34 U.S. Open wins in 2003. Tournament Calendar
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