{"id":592138,"date":"2026-05-19T08:53:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T08:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/592138\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T08:53:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T08:53:17","slug":"us-open-former-champion-graeme-mcdowell-qualifies-for-shinnecock-hills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/592138\/","title":{"rendered":"US Open: Former champion Graeme McDowell qualifies for Shinnecock Hills."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former US Open champion Graeme McDowell has secured one of the final nine qualification spots for this year&#8217;s edition in Shinnecock Hills.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">McDowell, from Northern Ireland, came through a 36-hole qualifier in Dallas with two rounds of 69.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It will be a first major for McDowell since his 10-year exemption from winning the US Open ended in 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 46-year-old, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/golf\/articles\/czex1j9e2reo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">who is considering rejoining the DP World Tour<\/a> with the Irish Open and Ryder Cup in mind, joined the breakaway LIV Golf tour in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Northern Ireland&#8217;s Tom McKibbin withdrew from the tournament in Dallas and Sergio Garcia missed out on qualification by two strokes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The US Open at Shinnecock Hills, on Long Island in New York, takes place from 18-21 June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former US Open champion Graeme McDowell has secured one of the final nine qualification spots for this year&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-592138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}