{"id":678850,"date":"2026-05-19T03:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T03:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/678850\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T03:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T03:39:09","slug":"adam-scott-officially-set-for-100th-consecutive-major-at-u-s-open-as-field-starts-to-fill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/678850\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Scott officially set for 100th consecutive major at U.S. Open as field starts to fill"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Adam Scott, of Australia, walks across the 10th green during the second round of the PGA Championship golf tournament at Aronimink Golf Club last Friday.Matt Slocum\/The Associated Press<\/p>\n

Adam Scott officially is set for his 100th consecutive major next month in the U.S. Open, which added 24 players to the field from the world ranking on Monday. Sixteen players also earned spots at qualifiers in England and Dallas.<\/p>\n

Scott effectively secured his spot among the top 60 in the world with a tie for fourth in the Cadillac Championship at Doral. He is at No. 49 in this week\u2019s ranking, which the U.S. Open uses to determine who avoids qualifying.<\/p>\n

Others exempt through the top 60 in the world ranking include Jordan Spieth, Patrick Reed and Alex Smalley, who tied for second in the PGA Championship to move up 36 spots to No. 42.<\/p>\n

Matti Schmid, who had the lead during the final round of the PGA Championship and wound up in a tie for fourth, earned one of five exemptions awarded to leading players in the FedEx Cup on the PGA Tour who were not already exempt.<\/p>\n

The exemptions finalized Monday meant 70 players in the 156-man field will be forced to qualify, an unusually low number for a major that prefers that roughly half the field go through qualifying. The U.S. Open is June 18-21 at Shinnecock on New York\u2019s Long Island.<\/p>\n

Adding to the field Monday were two final qualifying events.<\/p>\n

Nathan Kimsey of England had a 62 in his second round at Walton Heath to earn one of seven spots out of England. He will be making his U.S. Open debut.<\/p>\n

Kimsey was joined by Rocco Repetto Taylor, Filippo Celli, Matthew Jordan, Angel Hidalgo, Niklas Norgaard and Ugo Coussaud, who earned the final spot in a 4-for-1 playoff.<\/p>\n

Thomas Detry ended nine days of U.S. Open misfortune by losing out in England playoff, and missing out in the bid for two alternate spots.<\/p>\n

Detry was set to earn an exemption from LIV Golf until Lucas Herbert won in Virginia on May 10. He was at No. 61 in the world going into the PGA Championship but missed a 12-foot birdie putt on his final hole to miss the cut by one shot. And then he flew to London.<\/p>\n

All is not lost. Detry still has two tournaments \u2014 the Soudal Open this week in his native Belgium and LIV Golf Korea the following week \u2014 to move into the top 60 before the final cutoff for the world ranking on June 14.<\/p>\n

The Dallas qualifier \u2014 the first of 11 to be held in North America over the next month \u2014 featured Sergio Garcia among 14 players from LIV Golf.<\/p>\n

LIV\u2019s Peter Uihlein won the qualifier and was one of three LIV players to get through, joined by 2010 U.S. Open champion Graeme McDowell and Caleb Surratt. McDowell who will play in the championship for the first time since 2020, the last year of his exemption for winning at Pebble Beach a decade earlier.<\/p>\n

Garcia fell two shots short of a six-way playoff for the last spot, won by Surratt. The other players to qualify at Dallas Athletic Club were Tom Kim, Cooper Dossey, Manav Shah, Jimmy Stanger, Adrien Dumont de Chassart and TK Kim.<\/p>\n

Scott\u2019s streak began with the 2001 British Open, and he has not missed a major since, even going through U.S. Open qualifying when he wasn\u2019t exempt. It\u2019s the longest streak since Jack Nicklaus played in 146 in a row, from the 1962 Masters through the 1998 U.S. Open.<\/p>\n

Scott\u2019s one close call was breaking a bone in his hand before the 2008 U.S. Open at Torrey Pines, but he played \u2014 grouped with Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson in the opening two rounds \u2014 and tied for 26th that week.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would rather win some stuff, and let\u2019s celebrate winning the U.S. Open than just playing in it,\u201d Scott said three weeks ago. \u201cI can give myself a pat on the back for hanging in there and playing all these events. I think there\u2019s some luck in it, but I think I\u2019ve had generally great advice around me from a physical and training standpoint that\u2019s kept me healthy and pretty much injury-free.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Adam Scott, of Australia, walks across the 10th green during the second round…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,49,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,295,894,887,914,880,881,622,893,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,82,865,61,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-678850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-golf","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}