Terra Lycos, the largest global Internet network, and the United States Golf Association (USGA) today announced that Lycos will host the official Web site of the U.S. Open Championships located at http://www.usopen.com. This marks the third consecutive year that Lycos has hosted the official U.S. Open Web site for the USGA. The U.S. Open Web site is the only place on the Internet to get real-time leaderboard scoring, news and other exclusive content from the USGA.

"We are expanding our hosting services to capitalize on another robust revenue stream," said Stephen Killeen, president, Terra Lycos U.S. "We have had great success from hosting the past two U.S. Open Web sites, as well as the 1999 official Super Bowl Web site, and the official community site for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games on Olympics.com. We will continue to leverage our expertise we have gained from hosting these events to offer paid-for high-volume commercial Web site hosting services at competitive rates."

"We chose Terra Lycos for its extensive global reach to attract users from around the world, as well as its experience supporting online event coverage," said Marty Parkes, senior director of communications for the USGA. "Terra Lycos has been an excellent partner for the U.S. Open the past two years and we're glad to have them host the official Web site again this year."

Features of the U.S. Open Web site at http://www.usopen.com include:


- The only source of real-time scores via the up-to-the minute leaderboard
- Latest U.S. Open news
- Interactive tour of the Southern Hills Golf Course
- Player biography information
- U.S. Open history