Rickie Fowler and Max Homa – who carried his personal bag – didn’t qualify for subsequent week’s US Open after shedding in a play-off to Cameron Younger.
Dubbed ‘golf’s longest day’, Monday noticed gamers at 10 qualifying websites battle throughout 36 holes for 47 locations within the discipline on the yr’s third main at Oakmont Nation Membership on June 12-15, dwell on Sky Sports activities Golf.
Within the day’s highest-profile occasion on the Kinsale Golf and Health Membership in Columbus, Ohio, Younger clinched the occasion’s sixth ultimate qualifying spot after triumphing in a five-way play-off.
The 28-year-old Younger, who has recorded 5 top-10 finishes in majors since 2022, sealed his place with a 12-foot birdie on the first additional gap to defeat Fowler, Homa, Eric Cole and Chase Johnson.
Defeat represented explicit heartbreak for Homa, who had carried his personal bag for the occasion having cut up from his caddie, after he had dropped into the play-off by three-putting for par on the ultimate regulation gap of his second spherical.
Homa had appeared at each main since The Open in 2019.
South Africa’s Erik Van Rooyen sealed his spot at Oakmont by successful the occasion on 13 below par.
Three-time main winner Padraig Harrington completed only one shot exterior the playoff after his second-round 66 was not fairly sufficient to make up for an opening-round 74.
There was a fairy-tale story in Washington as American beginner Matt Vogt – whose full-time job is as a dentist – secured his maiden place in a serious.
After capturing back-to-back 68s a thrilled Vogt, who hails from the Pittsburgh space and has previous expertise of caddying at Oakmont, mentioned: “I knew I could do it, and Oakmont and Pittsburgh and everything there means so much to me.
“It took each ounce of vitality in my physique to not take into consideration that each one day … I really feel like I’ll get up from a dream right here in a short while and this is not going to be actual, however it’s actual, and I am so excited.”
Elsewhere, English beginner Tyler Weaver secured a debut spot at a US Open after incomes one in all 5 qualifying locations in Atlanta – an occasion the place 17-year-old Mason Howell completed tied first with Jackson Buchanan after each shot consecutive rounds of 63.
England’s Matt Wallace, a five-time winner on the DP World Tour, progressed from the occasion in Ontario.
In Maryland, the sector initially contained 15 LIV Golf gamers however 5 withdrew – together with Bubba Watson and Lee Westwood – whereas one other 5 turned of their playing cards as soon as it was clear they weren’t going to make the lower.
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Monday’s occasion at West Palm Seaside in Florida will conclude on Tuesday after being suspended as a result of dangerous climate.
Luke Poulter, son of former world quantity 5 Ian Poulter, held a qualifying spot in fourth when play was stopped after a gap spherical of 69.
Graeme McDowell was tied 14th at 4 below midway by means of his second spherical, three pictures behind the present qualifying positions.
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