CHAMPION: Laycock Wins 2015 U.S. Open of Curling

SKIP
Steve
Laycock

Third
Kirk
Muyres

Second
Colton
Flasch

Lead
Gerry
Adam

Steve Laycock (Saskatoon, SK) won 6-5 over Reid Carruthers (Winnipeg, MB) in the Final of the U.S. Open of Curling, held January 2 - 4, 2015 in Blaine, Minnesota. To advance to the championship game, Laycock won 6-5 over Mick Lizmore (Edmonton, AB) in the semifinals of the 2015 U.S. Open of Curling in Blaine, Minnesota; and won 6-3 over Craig Brown (Blaine, USA) in the quarterfinals.

Laycock finished 4-1 in the 18-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Laycock defeated Doug Brewer (Cornwall, ON) 11-2, then won 4-3 against Minnesota's Mike Farbelow. Laycock went on to lose 5-2 against Jeff Currie (Thunder Bay, ON). Laycock responded with a 6-3 win over Heath McCormick (Blaine, USA). Laycock won 8-3 against Minnesota's John Shuster in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the U.S. Open of Curling Championship title, Laycock earned 21.240 world rankings points along with the $8,266CDN first prize cheque. Laycock move up 1 spots after posting a net gain of 18.328 points improving upon their best results so far this season, ranking 8th overall with 226.710 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Laycock ranks 5th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 127.560 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE

2023: Daniel Casper
Daniel Casper, Luc Violette, Ben Richardson, Chase Sinnett , Jordan Moulton
Chaska, MN
2022: Korey Dropkin
Korey Dropkin, Andrew Stopera, Mark Fenner, Thomas Howell
Duluth, MN
2021: Luc Violette
Luc Violette, Chase Sinnett, Ben Richardson, Jon Harstad
Chaska, MN
2019: Rich Ruohonen
Greg Persinger, Rich Ruohonen, Colin Hufman, Philip Tilker, Kroy Nernberger
Minneapolis, USA
2018: Soo-Hyuk Kim
Soo-Hyuk Kim, ByeongJin Jeong, JeongJae Lee, DonghYeong Lee, Hyeonjun Hwang
Seoul, KOR
2016: Matt Dunstone
Matt Dunstone, Alex Forrest, Ian McMillan, Connor Njegovan
Winnipeg, MB
2016: John Epping
John Epping, Mathew Camm, Patrick Janssen, Tim March
Toronto, ON
2015: Steve Laycock
Steve Laycock, Kirk Muyres, Colton Flasch, Gerry Adam
Saskatoon, SK
2014: Rui Liu
Rui Liu, Jia Liang Zang, Xiao Ming Xu, De Xin Ba
Harbin, CHN

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