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2 main winners get last-minute U.S. Open bids, preserving stellar streaks alive

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June 10, 2024

Each Adam Scott and Sergio Garcia’s main championship streaks will survive this U.S. Open.

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After developing simply quick for a U.S. Open spot in last qualifying, Adam Scott may have a tee time at Pinehurst No. 2 this week in any case.

So, too, will one other acquainted identify: Sergio Garcia.

Scott was one among two gamers who grew to become exempt Monday for this week’s national championship by the use of the ultimate Official World Rankings cutoff.

The 2013 Masters winner was No. 61 within the rating as of Monday morning, with the highest 60 being exempt for the championship, however the late Grayson Murray was ranked 59th. When the USGA eliminated Murray from the eligibility listing, Scott earned a berth within the third main of the 12 months.

This week will mark Scott’s 92nd consecutive main performed, a streak courting again to the 2001 Open Championship when he was simply 21. The following longest lively streak belongs to Jordan Spieth, at lower than half that whole: 43 consecutive begins.

Having entered June at 58th on the planet, Scott was in a precarious place to overlook his first main in additional than 20 years after a missed lower on the PGA Championship despatched him out of the highest 60, simply earlier than the primary of two top-60 rating cutoffs for the U.S. Open.

Scott entered the Springfield, Ohio, U.S. Open Final Qualifier, however wavered on truly enjoying in it. He in the end determined to tee it up after a T12 end on the Charles Schwab Problem and led the 36-hole qualifier for a lot of the day. However a bogey on the ultimate gap despatched Scott right into a playoff with fellow Aussie Cam Davis.

After an exciting duel, Davis grabbed the final of 4 spots out there on the website whereas Scott was the primary alternate.

Two weeks later, although, Scott, who already had arrived on website at Pinehurst Sunday, is in.

Murray received earlier this season on the Sony Open but died by suicide on May 25. He was nonetheless listed within the OWGR as of Monday morning after shifting up two locations this previous week from 61st to 59th.

Robert MacIntyre was additionally made exempt to the U.S. Open after he vaulted from 76th on the planet to thirty ninth because of his win on June 2 on the RBC Canadian Open between the 2 rating cutoffs.


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As is typical, the USGA held 4 further spots for gamers who might have develop into exempt, that means 4 extra alternates stuffed out the sphere.

And one will even proceed a formidable streak.

Among the many 4 alternates was Sergio Garcia, the primary alternate from the Dallas Closing Qualifier performed on Might 25.

This was the second time Garcia had tried last qualifying for the U.S. Open since becoming a member of LIV Golf two years in the past. He was profitable in his bid final season, additionally on the Dallas last qualifier, to make it into the sphere for the U.S. Open at Los Angeles Nation Membership, however wasn’t as lucky this 12 months.

After 36 holes within the largest U.S. Open Closing Qualifier of the 12 months, Garcia discovered himself in a seven-way playoff for six spots within the event. On the additional gap, the 2017 Masters winner was the one participant to make bogey, knocking him down to first alternate status in agonizing fashion.

The alternate listing is ordered by power of the sphere on the participant’s respective qualifier. On condition that the Closing Qualifier in Dallas was the biggest, it was possible Garcia would land a spot.

Garcia will make his twenty fifth consecutive U.S. Open look at Pinehurst, tied for the tenth most of all time.

The opposite three alternates added to the sphere have been beginner Brendan Valdes (Jupiter, Fla., qualifier), Otto Black (Columbus, Ohio) and Maxwell Moldovan (Springfield, Ohio).

Jack Hirsh

Golf.com Editor

Jack Hirsh is an assistant editor at GOLF. A Pennsylvania native, Jack is a 2020 graduate of Penn State College, incomes levels in broadcast journalism and political science. He was captain of his highschool golf workforce and lately returned to this system to function head coach. Jack additionally nonetheless *tries* to stay aggressive in native amateurs. Earlier than becoming a member of GOLF, Jack spent two years working at a TV station in Bend, Oregon, primarily as a Multimedia Journalist/reporter, but in addition producing, anchoring and even presenting the climate. He could be reached at [email protected].

 

 

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