{"id":716125,"date":"2026-06-20T20:23:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T20:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/716125\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T20:23:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T20:23:16","slug":"miles-russell-17-is-2nd-youngest-man-to-make-u-s-open-cut-since-world-war-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/716125\/","title":{"rendered":"Miles Russell, 17, is 2nd-youngest man to make U.S. Open cut since World War II"},"content":{"rendered":"

SOUTHAMPTON, New York \u2014 Miles Russell, at 17 the youngest player at the U.S. Open, just wanted to see how his game measured up to the best in the world.<\/p>\n

Well, he\u2019s tied at 3 over with the likes of Jordan Spieth and Dustin Johnson. He will play the weekend, unlike Bryson DeChambeau and Jon Rahm.<\/p>\n

Russell, from Jacksonville Beach, Florida, is the second-youngest man to make a U.S. Open cut since World War II.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really special to get to play the weekend here, just in any tournament,\u201d he said. \u201cBut making a major, my first one, it\u2019s super special, and I\u2019m looking forward to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Only Beau Hossler, who was a younger 17 in 2012, has Russell beat in the age department.<\/p>\n

Russell opened with a 2-over 72 on Thursday. Then on Friday, he briefly climbed into the top 15 with two birdies in his first six holes. He hung on to make the cut, which ended up being 4 over, despite three bogeys on the back nine.<\/p>\n

He played with the oldest man in the field \u2014 54-year-old U.S. Senior Open champion Padraig Harrington. Russell was in the womb when Harrington won his last two majors in 2008.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe played lovely golf, looked like he could hit it down a rope,\u201d Harrington said Thursday. \u201cI think he wants narrower fairways, if you ask me.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"2026<\/p>\n

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A recap of Round 2 of the 2026 U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills.<\/p>\n

Already this year, Russell made his first PGA Tour cut \u2014 tying for 50th at the Puerto Rico Open in March. He also made two of three cuts on the Korn Ferry Tour, two years after becoming the youngest player to make a cut on that circuit.<\/p>\n

On June 8, Russell qualified for the U.S. Open on his 38th hole of the day via playoff. His caddie that day \u2014 Charlie Woods, Tiger\u2019s son who is, like Russell, committed to play for Florida State.<\/p>\n

Russell\u2019s caddie this week is his coach, Ramon Bescansa, who caddied for Russell Knox the last time Shinnecock hosted in 2018.<\/p>\n

Russell was given his own pre-tournament press conference on Wednesday. <\/p>\n

His responses reminded all of the journalists, many old enough to be his parent, just how old they are. <\/p>\n

Such as saying his first vivid golf-watching memory was Tiger Woods winning the Masters … in 2019.<\/p>\n

He said he would treat his major championship debut as if it was an American Junior Golf Association tournament.<\/p>\n

\u201cStill it hasn\u2019t really hit me like, man, this is what I want to do when I\u2019m older,\u201d Russell said Wednesday. \u201cI just love playing the game. It\u2019s a good challenge, and I like a good challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n

So far, he\u2019s up for that challenge at Shinnecock.<\/p>\n

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\"PGA:<\/p>\n

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Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy are among the challengers to J.J. Spaun\u2019s U.S. Open title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SOUTHAMPTON, New York \u2014 Miles Russell, at 17 the youngest player at the U.S. Open, just wanted to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-716125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716125","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=716125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}