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U.S. Open Final Qualifying: Track scores, results, how it works
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Ben Griffin reflects on busy 24 hours at 2024 U.S. Open Final Qualifying
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The field for the next men's major is (nearly) set after results rolled in from Final Qualifying for the 126th U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club in Southampton, New York.
The U.S. Open Championship represents the essence of meritocracy in professional sports. Any professional or amateur with a 0.4 handicap index or lower can sign up to compete for a spot at the U.S. Open, which results in wide-ranging storylines across the Final Qualifying fields. This year’s event at Shinnecock is set for June 18-21.
While several players qualified for the U.S. Open via various exemption categories, others are chasing a spot via two stages of qualifying. Local Qualifying (18 holes) was contested across a multitude of sites from April 20-May 14. Players who advanced from the local stage will compete at Final Qualifying (36 holes), which were contested on May 18, May 25 and June 8, which is considered "Golf's Longest Day." Some players are directly exempt into Final Qualifying via various exemption categories. Each site will also have two alternates.
Among the notable results from the 10 sites on June 8 were surprise amateur qualifiers, tickets punched by PGA TOUR stalwarts and plenty of dramatic storylines - including the son of a 15-time major champion on the bag for a teen who is moving on to Shinnecock.
Read below for more information on Final Qualifying to see who's teeing it up next week on Long Island, including one site that extended into Tuesday to decide the final qualifying spot.
2026 U.S. Open Final Qualifying results:
June 8
- Del Paso Country Club; Sacramento, CA: 78 players, four spots available
- Taylor Montgomery
- Eric Lee (a)
- Matthew Robles (a)
- Marek Fleming (a)
- NOTES: Montgomery, 31, led the way in California despite missing the cut in all four TOUR starts this season. He'll be making his fourth U.S. Open start but first since 2023, and joining him at Shinnecock Hills will be a trio of amateur qualifiers. Lee won a national championship in 2025 as part of the Oklahoma State team, while Robles plays for Santa Clara. Fleming, who just wrapped his sophomore season at the University of South Carolina, eked out the final qualifying spot with a par on his final hole to avoid a potential 6-for-1 playoff.
- Springfield Country Club; Springfield, OH: 75 players, five spots available
- Neal Shipley
- Zac Blair
- Billy Horschel
- Nick Hardy
- Dylan Wu
- NOTES: Shipley and Blair shared medalist honors at this qualifier with several notable names, marking three straight years that Blair has advanced to the U.S. Open via Springfield. For Shipley, it'll be his first start in a major since taking low amateur honors two years ago at Pinehurst. The last three qualifiers all finished one shot off the pace, as Horschel will be making just his third start in a major since his runner-up finish at the 2024 Open at Royal Troon. Hardy will be making his seventh career start in a major, with all but one coming in the U.S. Open, 11 years after he first advanced from the Springfield qualifier. Wu will be making his first major start since the 2023 U.S. Open, while the list of contenders who barely missed at this site included Tony Finau and Brandt Snedeker.
- Emerald Valley Golf Club; Creswell, OR: 54 players, two spots available
- Greyson Leach
- Andrew Putnam
- NOTES: Golf's Longest Day extended into Tuesday in Oregon, as Putnam and Spencer Tibbits were still deadlocked after a six-hole playoff in waning daylight on Monday. A former TOUR winner, Putnam ultimately got the edge for the second and final qualifying spot, with Tibbits relegated to first alternate. Joining Putnam in New York will be Leach, who took medalist honors in cold and rainy conditions not far from the University of Oregon, where he played his college golf.
- Woodmont Country Club (North Course); Rockville, MD: 77 players, four spots available
- Jackson Suber
- Ben Kohles
- Logan Reilly (a)
- Jake Sollon
- NOTES: Kohles was racing to his car Sunday after winning on the Korn Ferry Tour in order to make it to his qualifier, and it's a good thing he did. The former Virginia standout kept his hot streak going with a 7-under total to earn his third career start in a major. He finished three shots behind Suber, a runaway medalist at 10-under 132 on a day when only five players cracked 5 under. Suber will make his second U.S. Open start, while Reilly and Sollon will each be making their first TOUR start on one of the game's biggest stages. Blades Brown barely missed a chip on his 36th hole that would've earned a spot in a playoff, instead finishing as the site's second alternate.
- BallenIsles Country Club (East Course); Palm Beach Gardens, FL: 73 players, four spots available
- Giuseppe Puebla (a)
- Ben Silverman
- Ryder Cowan (a)
- Miles Russell (a)
- NOTES: This site was led by amateur Puebla and TOUR veteran Silverman as co-medalists, but the biggest story came from Russell, a 17-year-old amateur who overcame an early triple bogey to qualify for his first major championship with friend and future college teammate, Charlie Woods, on the bag. Woods' father knows a thing or two about success in USGA championships, and Charlie helped Russell navigate a 3-for-2 playoff for the final spots that also saw Cowan qualify for Shinnecock Hills. Among the notables who barely missed at BallenIsles were Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Luke Clanton and Matt Kuchar.
- Century Country Club & Golf Club of Purchase; Purchase, NY: 78 players, four spots available
- Kevin Roy
- Max Greyserman
- Ben James
- James Nicholas
- NOTES: James will make his pro debut this week at the RBC Canadian Open, but the top-ranked player from the PGA TOUR U Class of 2026 will also have a tee time next week. James is among a quartet of players who advanced out of New York, which also included five-time TOUR runner-up Greyserman. Roy has largely struggled this season on TOUR but paced the field with an 8-under total, while the final qualifying spot went to Nicholas, a winner earlier this year on the Korn Ferry Tour who tied with James at 2-under 140.
- Gaston Country Club; Gastonia, NC: 63 players, five spots available
- Jackson Ormond (a)
- Carl Yuan
- Jackson Van Paris
- Brandon Wu
- Cole Hammer
- NOTES: Ormond was a surprise co-medalist in North Carolina, as the 18-year-old fired rounds of 65-63 to take top honors alongside Yuan. The final three qualifiers all finished at 11-under 129, including Hammer who made his major debut as a fresh-faced 15-year-old at Chambers Bay back in 2015. Wu will be making his fourth career U.S. Open start, while Van Paris bounced back from four straight missed cuts on the Korn Ferry Tour to earn his first start in a major. TOUR veteran Harry Higgs took first alternate honors in North Carolina and will have to wait to find out if he'll earn a spot in next week's field.
- Lakes Golf & Country Club; Westerville, OH: 51 players, four spots available
- Davis Thompson
- J.B. Holmes
- Vaughn Harber (a)
- Arni Sveinsson (a)
- NOTES: The qualifying site closest to the Memorial Tournament was paced by Thompson, who didn't play at Muirfield Village but turned in an 11-under total across 36 holes to punch his ticket to the U.S. Open for the fourth straight year. One of the biggest surprises from Golf's Longest Day was Holmes, who at age 44 will be making his first major start since 2019. A five-time TOUR winner, Holmes has made just one start since the fall of 2024. The Westerville site also included a pair of unexpected amateur qualifiers, as Harber played his final five holes in 5-under while Sveinsson's 9-under 135 total ensures that Iceland's flag will fly at Shinnecock Hills.
- Hawks Ridge Golf Club; Ball Ground, GA: 75 players, five spots available
- Chris Kirk
- Jake Peacock
- Keith Mitchell
- Robbie Higgins
- Chase Kyes (a)
- NOTES: The Georgia sectional was paced by a former Bulldog, as Kirk led with rounds of 65-64 to earn his fourth straight U.S. Open start on the heels of a T12 finish last year at Oakmont. He'll be joined at Shinnecock by another Bulldog, as Mitchell returns to this event for the first time since 2023. Kyes, an amateur who plays for the University of Tennessee, earned the final spot in near darkness by holing a 12-foot birdie putt on the final green.
- Lambton Golf and Country Club; Toronto, Canada: 59 players, six spots available
- Emiliano Grillo
- Alejandro Tosti
- Marcelo Rozo
- William Mouw
- John Parry
- Max McGreevy
- NOTES: Unsurprisingly, the qualifier closest to the RBC Canadian Open saw six TOUR veterans earn spots in next week's field. The top names were both Argentines, as Grillo took medalist honors but Tosti turned plenty of heads with a course-record 63 in his second round to qualify comfortably. Rozo will make his major debut after advancing through PGA TOUR Q-School in December, while Mouw will make his first U.S. Open start since 2022 at The Country Club. The last two spots went to England's Parry, who hasn't played a U.S. Open since 2015, and McGreevy, who will be making his debut. Among the notables who missed qualifying in Canada were TOUR winners Max Homa, Matt Wallace and Adam Svensson, who all ended up on the wrong side of a wild 8-for-3 playoff. Wallace and Svensson earned first and second alternate honors, respectively, after Svensson mistakenly picked up his ball mark prematurely on the final playoff hole once McGreevy clinched the final qualifying spot.
May 25
- Hino Golf Club (King Course); Shiga, Japan; 38 players, three spots available
May 18
- Dallas Athletic Club (Blue Course, Gold Course); Dallas; 123 players, nine spots available
- Walton Heath Golf Club; Surrey, England; 80 players, seven spots available
- Nathan Kimsey
- Rocco Repetto Taylor
- Filippo Celli
- Matthew Jordan
- Angel Hidalgo
- Niklas Nørgaard
- Ugo Coussaud
