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Neal Shipley plays his shot from the ninth tee during the second round of the RBC Canadian Open 2026 at TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley on June 12, 2026.<\/p>\n
Golf\u2019s Longest Day has officially come and gone, and with it, the final field for one of the sport\u2019s most prestigious championships<\/a> is nearly set.<\/p>\n The U.S. Open<\/a> has long been known as golf\u2019s most accessible major. It gives both amateurs and professionals the opportunity to earn their way into the tournament through qualifying. Earning one of those coveted spots, however, is rarely easy. Even some of golf\u2019s biggest names find themselves on the outside looking in.<\/p>\n This year, 715 players competed across ten final qualifying sites in pursuit of just 43 available spots at Shinnecock Hills.<\/a> The competition created another emotional chapter in U.S. Open qualifying history.<\/p>\n Big Names Who Qualified for the U.S. Open<\/p>\n With ten final qualifying sites, here\u2019s who secured their spot at the 2026 U.S. Open, as well as the alternates, according to Golf<\/a>.<\/p>\n Century Country Club & Golf Club of Purchase Gaston Country Club Springfield Country Club (Springfield, OH) Lakes Golf & Country Club (Westerville, OH) Lambton Golf and Country Club (Canada) Woodmont Country Club (Rockville, MD) BallonIsles Country Club (Palm Beach Gardens, FL). Hawks<\/a> Ridge Golf Club (Ball Ground, GA) Emerald Valley Golf Club (Creswell, OR). Del Paso Country Club (Sacramento, CA) Big Names Who Didn\u2019t Quite Make It<\/p>\n Among the most notable misses was Tony Finau, who failed to qualify for the U.S. Open for the first time since 2017. Max Homa also came up short<\/a>, narrowly missing qualification for the second consecutive year.<\/p>\n Several other recognizable names were unable to secure spots, including Matt Kuchar and Aldrich Potgieter. Austin Smotherman was unable to complete his round and did not qualify.<\/p>\n One of the day\u2019s closest calls belonged to Blades Brown. He narrowly missed earning a place in the field but was able to secure alternate status. This leaves the door slightly open if withdrawals occur before the championship begins.<\/p>\n As Golf\u2019s Longest Day once again proved, qualifying for the U.S. Open remains one of the toughest tests in the sport. During which, household names, rising stars, and amateurs battle through the same 36-hole grind for a chance to compete on one of golf\u2019s biggest stages.<\/p>\n \n\t\t\tSydney Jones<\/a> Sydney Jones is a sports writer covering all things Golf, Mariners, and Seahawks for Heavy.com. She has experience covering the intersection of sports and human interest stories for multiple publications. Originally from Montana, she recently relocated to Seattle and is enjoying the new experience of being surrounding by live professional sports and rooting for a common team while writing about them. More about Sydney Jones<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Neal Shipley plays his shot from the ninth tee during the second round of the RBC Canadian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":703983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-703982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Qualifiers: Kevin Roy, Max Greyserman, Benjamin James, James Nicholas
Alternates: Matt Jones, Andrew Svoboda<\/p>\n
Qualifiers: Carl Yuan, Jackson Ormond (a), Brandon Wu, Cole Hammer, Jackson Van Paris
Alternates: Harry Higgs, Cristobal Del Solar<\/p>\n
Qualifiers: Neal Shipley, Zac Blair, Billy Horschel, Dylan Wu, Nick Hardy
Alternates: Brandt Snedeker, Maxwell Moldovan<\/p>\n
Qualifiers: Davis Thompson, Arni Sveinsson (a), J.B. Holmes
Alternates: Sam Udovich (a), Braxton Kuntz<\/p>\n
Qualifiers: Emiliano Grillo, Alejandro Tosti, Marcelo Rozo, John Parry, Max McGreevy, William Mouw
Alternates: Matt Wallace, Adam Svensson<\/p>\n
Qualifiers: Jackson Suber, Ben Kohles, Logan Reilly (a), Jake Sollon
Alternates: Bryan Lee (a), Blades Brown<\/p>\n
Qualifiers: Ben Silverman, Giuseppe Puebla (a), Miles Russell (a), Ryder Cowan (a)
Alternates: Tyler Collet, Christiaan Bezuidenhout<\/p>\n
Qualifiers: Chris Kirk, Jake Peacock, Keith Mitchell, Chase Kyes (a), Robbie Higgins
Alternates: Jack Schoenberger (a), Alexander Herrmann<\/p>\n
Qualifiers: Greyson Leach, Andrew Putnam
Alternates: Spencer Tibbits, TingWei Chang (a)<\/p>\n
Qualifiers: Taylor Montgomery, Eric Lee (a), Matthew Robles (a), Marek Fleming (a)
Alternates: Kihei Akina (a), Gabriel Salvanera<\/p>\n