{"id":679119,"date":"2026-05-19T06:43:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T06:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/679119\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T06:43:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T06:43:15","slug":"seven-players-punch-u-s-open-tickets-in-england-though-thomas-detry-misses-in-playoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/679119\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven players punch U.S. Open tickets in England, though Thomas Detry misses in playoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nathan Kimsey fired a second-round 62 Monday at Walton Heath to qualify for his first U.S. Open as the medalist of the England final qualifier.<\/p>\n<p>Kimsey shot 14 under over 36 holes, two strokes better than Spain\u2019s Rocco Repetto Taylor, who also was among the seven players to qualify for next month\u2019s national championship at Shinnecock Hills. Kimsey, a 33-year-old from England who plays primarily on the DP World Tour, made his major debut at last year\u2019s Open Championship at Royal Portrush, where he tied for 40th.<\/p>\n<p>Tying for third at 11 under was England\u2019s Matthew Jordan, Denmark\u2019s Niklas Norgaard, Spain\u2019s Angel Hidalgo and Italy\u2019s Filippo Celli.<\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"Link\" aria-label=\"U.S. Open 2026: Site-by-site results from final qualifying for Shinnecock\" href=\"https:\/\/www.golfchannel.com\/usga\/news\/u-s-open-2026-site-by-site-results-from-final-qualifying-for-shinnecock\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"U.S. Open - Final Round\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1779172995_537_.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The USGA is contesting 13 final qualifying sites to help determine the field for the U.S. Open at Shinnecock.<\/p>\n<p>Norgaard tied for 46th in his U.S. Open debut last summer at Oakmont, where Jordan also debuted but missed the cut; Jordan has twice been T-10 at Open Championships, though. Celli was low amateur at the 2022 Open at St. Andrews, though hasn\u2019t played a major since.<\/p>\n<p>France\u2019s Ugo Coussaud won a four-man playoff for the final spot while Hennie du Plessis and Andrew Wilson settled for first and second alternate, respectively. Thomas Detry, who narrowly missed qualifying via LIV points and the Official World Golf Ranking, came away empty-handed in extras.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nathan Kimsey fired a second-round 62 Monday at Walton Heath to qualify for his first U.S. Open as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-679119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679119","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=679119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}