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The United States Open Championship is the annual men's open golf tournament of the United States. It is staged by the United States Golf Association each June, scheduled such that the final round is always played on the 3rd Sunday of that month (Father's Day). It is one of the four major championships in men's golf and is on the official schedule of both the PGA Tour and the European Tour. The U.S. Open is staged at a variety of courses, and they are usually set up in such a way that low scoring is very difficult and there is a premium on accurate driving. Normally, an Open course is longer than normal and will have a high cut of rough (termed "Open rough" by the American press and fans), hilly greens (such as at Pinehurst No. 2 in 2005, which was described by Johnny Miller of NBC as "like trying to hit a ball on top of a VW Beetle") and pinched fairways. Some courses that are attempting to get on the rotation for the Open will normally be rebuilt to have these features, with Rees Jones being the most notable of the "Open Doctors" who take on these projects.