43 Punch Their Tickets to Shinnecock Hills on Golf’s Longest Day

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Ten sites across North America – nine in the United States and one in Canada – hosted Golf’s Longest Day on Monday, June 8. A total of 679 golfers competed for 43 spots and a tee time at the 126th U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club.

A look at what transpired:

Century Country Club & Golf Club of Purchase, N.Y.

78 players for four spots

Kevin Roy, 36, Bradenton, Fla., will make his first major-championship start at Shinnecock Hills after earning medalist honors in Purchase, N.Y. Roy, who grew up in Syracuse, N.Y., shot a pair of 67s for an 8-under 134. As a senior at Long Beach State from 2011-12, he played alongside freshman and future major champion Xander Schauffele, who would later transfer to San Diego State. Roy’s father, Jim, has qualified for two U.S. Opens and Kevin caddied for him at the 2018 U.S. Senior Open at The Broadmoor.

Max Greyserman, 30, Short Hills, N.J., will make his third-consecutive U.S. Open appearance. Greyserman has survived Golf’s Longest Day in the Northeast two of the last three years after advancing from Canoe Brook Country Club in 2024. He came into the week No. 67 in the Official World Golf Ranking®. Max’s younger brother, Reed, who plays at Princeton, was also in the field in Purchase. Another brother, Dean, failed to advance in Sacramento, Calif. He competes for Stanford University.

James Nicholas, 29, Scarsdale, N.Y., has now advanced from Golf’s Longest Day two years in a row. Nicholas was one of two players (Philip Barbaree, Jr.) who made the cut at Oakmont who advanced from local and final qualifying in 2025. His father and grandfather were both orthopedic surgeons for several New York-based professional teams.

Ben James, 23, Milford, Conn., will make his third straight U.S. Open start after surviving Golf’s Longest Day for the third year in a row. James, who turned professional this week after finishing No. 1 in the PGA Tour University rankings, will make his professional major debut at Shinnecock Hills after playing in the RBC Canadian Open this week. James was a four-time first-team All-American at the University of Virginia, and a two-time USA Walker Cup competitor (2023, 2025). 

Springfield (Ohio) Country Club

74 players for five spots

Neal Shipley, 25, Pittsburgh, Pa., will head to Shinnecock for his professional U.S. Open debut after tying with Zac Blair for medalist honors at 8-under 132 (65-67). Shipley earned low-amateur honors at the 2024 U.S. Open when he tied for 26th at Pinehurst No. 2 just after graduating from Ohio State University. Shipley was the runner-up to Nick Dunlap in the 2023 U.S. Amateur. He also was the low amateur in the 2024 Masters.

Zac Blair, 35, Orem, Utah, will make his third straight U.S. Open start and fifth overall. Blair has survived final qualifying five times, including the last three years at Springfield Country Club. He is a former Brigham Young University standout.

Dylan Wu, 29, Medford, Ore., will play in his third U.S. Open, having made the cut twice: Torrey Pines in 2021 and The Los Angeles (Calif.) Country Club in 2023. Wu made a 20-foot birdie putt on the first hole of sudden death to earn the fifth and final 2026 PGA Tour card via Q-School at TPC Sawgrass this past December.

Billy Horschel, 39, Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., owns eight PGA Tour victories, including the 2014 Tour Championship. Horschel will make his 13th U.S. Open start and has eight made cuts, including a tie for fourth in 2013 at Merion. He owns the lowest 18-hole score in USGA history, a 60 posted in the first round of the 2006 U.S. Amateur at Chaska (Minn.) Town Course, the stroke-play co-host venue. He also was a member of the victorious 2007 USA Walker Cup Team.

Nick Hardy, 30, Northbrook, Ill., will make his sixth U.S. Open start. Hardy has advanced through final qualifying all six times from Springfield Country Club and has two top 20s in the National Championship, his best being a T-14 at The Country Club, in Brookline (Mass.).

Lakes Golf & Country Club, Westerville, Ohio

51 players for four spots

Davis Thompson, 27, St. Simons Island, Ga., has played in four U.S. Opens with one made cut, a T-9 at Pinehurst No. 2 in 2024. Thompson earned medalist honors in Westerville, shooting an 11-under 133 over two rounds. He owns one PGA Tour victory. He also was a member of the victorious 2021 USA Walker Cup Team.

J.B. Holmes, 44, Campbellsville, Ky., has played in nine U.S. Opens with five made cuts. He last played the championship in 2019 at Pebble Beach (Calif.) Golf Links. Holmes has five career PGA Tour wins, including the 2019 Genesis Open. Holmes earned a spot in a 4-for-3 playoff with Vaughn Harber, Arni Sveinsson and Sam Udovich, the latter being the odd man out. Holmes hasn't played a competitive tournament since the ISCO Championship last July.

Vaughn Harber, 20, Blacklick, Ohio, is a sophomore on The Ohio State University men’s golf team who will make his U.S. Open debut at Shinnecock Hills. He finished eagle-birdie-birdie to make the 4-for-3 playoff. Harber is a part-time caddie at Scioto Country Club, site of the 2026 U.S. Senior Open.

Arni Sveinsson, 20, Iceland, will be the first golfer from his country to compete in the U.S. Open after shooting 9-under 135. Sveinsson was also the first golfer from Iceland to compete in the U.S. Amateur in 2025 at The Olympic Club. He is a sophomore at Louisiana State University.

Lambton Golf & Country Club, Toronto, Ontario 

59 players for six spots

Emiliano Grillo, 33, Argentina, has played in seven U.S. Opens including a tie for 19th a year ago at Oakmont (Pa.) Country Club. Grillo earned medalist honors in Canada after posting 9-under 131 (65-66). He has two PGA Tour wins, including the 2023 Charles Schwab Challenge.

Alejandro Tosti, 30, a fellow Argentine, grabbed the second qualifying spot in Canada after shooting 8-under 132 that included a second-round 63 for the course record. Tosti will be making his U.S. Open debut at Shinnecock Hills. He has two runner-up finishes on the PGA Tour.

Marcelo Rozo, 36, Colombia, is in his first year on the PGA Tour and will make his first major appearance. Rozo has played on the Korn Ferry Tour, PGA Tour Canada and the PGA Tour Latinoamerica. He has two international wins and lost to Scottie Scheffler in a playoff at the 2019 Evans Scholars Invitational.

William Mouw, 25, Chino Hills, Calif., will make his second U.S. Open start after advancing through final qualifying for the second time. Mouw earned medalist honors at the final qualifier at The Olympic Club, in San Francisco to earn a spot in the 2022 U.S. Open at The Country Club at Brookline (Mass.). Mouw turned professional in 2023 and captured the 2025 ISCO Championship on the PGA Tour. The former Pepperdine star was a member of the victorious 2021 USA Walker Cup Team.

John Parry, 39, England, will make his first U.S. Open start in 11 years. Parry made the cut in the 2013 U.S. Open at Merion and the 2015 U.S. Open at Chambers Bay. He owns eight professional wins, two coming on the European Tour (now DP World Tour): the 2024 AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open and 2010 Vivendi Cup.

Max McGreevy, 31, Edmond, Okla., will make his U.S. Open debut after earning the last spot in an 8-for-3 playoff in Canada. McGreevy owns eight worldwide victories, three of which have come on the Korn Ferry Tour. Two of those wins came during the 2024 season: the Magnit Championship and Memorial Health Championship.

Woodmont Country Club, Rockville, Md.

77 players for four spots

Jackson Suber, 26, Tampa, Fla., will make his second U.S. Open appearance after shooting 10-under 132 to earn medalist honors on the club’s North Course. Suber was the first alternate in 2024 and got into the field at Pinehurst No. 2 when Jon Rahm withdrew because of a toe blister. Suber turned pro in 2022 and is in his second year on the PGA Tour. He finished fourth at the 2026 CJ Cup Byron Nelson and was a two-time, first-team All-SEC selection at Ole Miss.

Ben Kohles, 36, Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., rode the hot hand and earned the second spot in Maryland after winning the Korn Ferry Tour’s BMW Charity Pro-Am on Sunday. Kohles drove 90 minutes to Charlotte after winning the event to catch a flight to Washington, D.C for his qualifier. It was his fifth career win on the Korn Ferry Tour. Kohles will make his third U.S. Open start. He qualified for the 2024 U.S. Open after finishing No. 1 on the 2023 Korn Ferry Tour points list.

Logan Reilly, 19, Lovettsville, Va., will play in his first major championship after shooting 7-under 135 (68-67). Just five days ago, Reilly went 3-0 in match play and holed the clinching putt for Auburn to win the national title at Omni La Costa Resort in Carlsbad, Calif. He joins teammate and world No. 1 amateur Jackson Koivun in the field. His brother, Cavan, plays on the University of Delaware men’s basketball team.

Jake Sollon, 28, Venetia, Pa., will make his major-championship debut at Shinnecock Hills. Sollon turned professional in 2021 after playing for four years at Rider University and a fifth year at the University of Oregon. He has had starts on PGA Tour Americas and the Korn Ferry Tour this season. Sollon was supposed to take a flight to South America this Tuesday for the PGA Tour Americas event in Bogota, Colombia, but is staying in the U.S. to play Shinnecock Hills early.

Gaston Country Club, Gastonia, N.C.

63 players for five spots

Jackson Ormond, 18, Rochester, N.Y., posted 12-under 128 to earn his first trip to the U.S. Open. He also survived local qualifying at the Links at Greystone, posting 70 to earn medalist honors. He started off the day with a double bogey and ended with five birdies in his final nine holes. Ormond competed in the 2025 U.S. Junior Amateur at Trinity Forest Golf Club, losing in the Round of 64. He will be a freshman at the University of Florida this fall. 

Carl Yuan, 29, of People's Republic of China, qualified for his first U.S. Open by posting  12-under 128 to tie amateur Jackson Ormond for medalist honors. Yuan was born in  People's Republic of China but now resides in Florida. He will make his U.S. Open debut and will be the first Chinese golfer to play at in U.S. Open since Haotong Li in 2019.

Jackson Van Paris, 22, Pinehurst, N.C., survived both stages of qualifying to earn his first U.S. Open start. Van Paris medaled at his local qualifier, shooting 66 at Secession Golf Club, in Beaufort, S.C., and then  posted 11-under 128 at Gaston Country Club to earn one of the five available spots. At 14, Van Paris became the youngest player since Bob Jones in 1916 to win a match in the U.S. Amateur, achieving the feat at Pebble Beach in 2018. The former Vanderbilt University star is on the Korn Ferry Tour through PGA Tour University. Van Paris had missed the last four cuts on that circuit before qualifying.

Brandon Wu, 29, Scarsdale, N.Y., will make his fourth U.S. Open start after shooting 11-under 129 at Gaston Country Club. His debut came in 2019 when he qualified as an amateur while on the golf team at Stanford University. After making the cut and finishing tied for 35th, he received his diploma behind the 18th green at Pebble Beach from then-USGA Executive Committee member Stu Francis. He has two U.S. Open appearances since, in 2020 and 2024. He finished tied for 70th in 2024 at Oakmont (Pa.) Country Club, his lone made cut as a professional. He was a member of the victorious 2019 USA Walker Cup Team.

Cole Hammer, 26, Houston, Texas, shot a first round 8-under 62 and paired it with an afternoon 67 to earn a tee time at Shinnecock Hills. Hammer advanced through local and final qualifying in 2015 as a 15-year-old, becoming the third youngest ever to qualify for a U.S. Open. He also earned a spot in the field in 2020 at Winged Foot after earning the Mark H. McCormack Medal as the leading amateur in the WAGR in 2019. The former University of Texas All-American was a member of the 2019 and 2021 USA Walker Cup Teams. He won the 2018 U.S. Amateur Four-Ball with partner Garrett Barber.

BallenIsles Country Club, Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.

71 players for four spots

Guiseppe Puebla, 17, Royal Palm Beach, Fla., will make his first U.S. Open appearance after earning co-medalist honors at BallenIsles, just a short drive from his hometown. Puebla, a first-year member of the U.S. National Junior Team, shot 7-under 137 (69-68). Puebla is committed to the University of Florida for the fall of 2027. He’ll be the second-youngest player in the field.

Miles Russell, 17, Jacksonville Beach, Fla., earned the final spot from the site with a birdie at the second playoff hole. Rusell is No. 10 in the World Amateur Golf Ranking® and is the highest-ranked junior. The left-hander will be the youngest player in the field at Shinnecock. This will be his first major-championship start. Russell was a member of the inaugural U.S. National Junior Team in 2024. Charlie Woods, who like Russell has verbally committed to play for Florida State University in the fall of 2027, caddied for him.

Ben Silverman, 38, Canada, will make his second U.S. Open start after playing in 2022 at The Country Club, in Brookline, Mass. The BallenIsles member has had starts on the PGA Tour and Korn Ferry Tour this season.

Ryder Cowan, 21, Edmond, Okla., is a rising senior on the University of Oklahoma men’s golf team. Cowan was an All-SEC performer in 2025-26 and notched two individual wins. He is No. 23 in the WAGR®.

Del Paso Country Club, Sacramento, Calif.

77 players for four spots

Taylor Montgomery, 31, Las Vegas, Nev., played in three consecutive U.S. Opens from 2021-23 and earned his fourth start after medaling, shooting 7-under 135. Montgomery has had starts on the PGA Tour and Korn Ferry Tour in 2026.

Eric Lee, 21, Fullerton, Calif., will make his U.S. Open debut after shooting 6-under 136. The rising senior at Oklahoma State helped the Cowboys win the 2025 NCAA title. Lee, who played one season at the University of California, Berkeley, made a run to the semifinals of the 2021 U.S. Junior Amateur, losing to eventual champion Wenyi Ding in 20 holes. He also was a semifinalist in last year’s U.S. Amateur at The Olympic Club, losing to eventual winner Mason Howell.

Marek Fleming, 20, Tomball, Texas, is a rising junior at the University of South Carolina who navigated both stages of qualifying to earn his first U.S. Open start. He shot 69 at his local qualifier at Solina Golf Club, in West Columbia, S.C., before posting 4-under 138 at Del Paso Country Club in final qualifying. Fleming has played in three U.S. Amateurs in 2022, 2023 and 2025.

Matthew Robles, 20, Downey, Calif., will make his U.S. Open debut after a 6-under 136. The rising junior at Santa Clara University is a two-time All-WCC performer who has the third-lowest career scoring average in program history (71.29). At Warren High School, Robles was the 2023 CIF Southern Section champion and posted the lowest score in championship history with a 62.

Hawks Ridge Golf Club, Ball Ground, Ga.

75 players for five spots

Chris Kirk, 41, Athens, Ga., will make his ninth U.S. Open start after earning medalist honors with a 15-under total of 129. Kirk has made five out of eight cuts in the U.S. Open. The former Georgia Bulldog owns six PGA Tour wins, the last coming at the 2024 Sony Open. He was a member of the victorious 2007 USA Walker Cup Team. 

Jake Peacock, 22, Milton, Ga., advanced from local and final qualifying to earn his first U.S. Open start. He posted 13-under 131 after advancing from the St. Louis local qualifier at WingHaven Country Club. He finished No. 19 in the 2025 PGA Tour University standings and plays on PGA Tour Americas. He played his college golf at the University of South Florida.

Keith Mitchell, 34, Chattanooga, Tenn., will make his third U.S. Open start and first since 2023 after posting 12-under 132. He finished T20 in 2023 at The Los Angeles (Calif.) Country Club. Mitchell has one PGA Tour win, the 2019 Honda Classic.

Robbie Higgins, 23, Sarasota, Fla., navigated both stages of the qualifying process to earn his first U.S. Open start. He posted 64 to earn medalist honors in his local qualifier at Plantation Bay Country Club, in Ormond Beach, Fla., and followed with an 11-under 133. Higgins turned professional in 2024 after playing his college golf at the University of North Florida and has starts on the Korn Ferry Tour and PGA Tour Americas.

Chase Kyes, 20, Birmingham, Ala., will make his first U.S. Open start after advancing from local and final qualifying. The rising sophomore at the University of Tennessee posted 11-under 133.. Kyes shot 69 to advance out of his local qualifier in Glencoe, Ala., at the RTJ Golf Trail at Silver Lakes. He is a teammate at Tennessee of 2025 U.S. Amateur runner-up Jackson Herrington, who is also in the field.

Emerald Valley Golf Club, Creswell, Ore.

54 players for two spots

Greyson Leach, 23, Rolling Hills Estates, Calif., advanced from local and final qualifying to earn his first U.S. Open start. He shot 67 at Rancho La Quinta's Jones Course and then posted 4-under 140 to earn medalist honors. The former University of Oregon golfer had played Emerald Valley with the Ducks before. He has played four events on PGA Tour Americas this year, with his best finish a tie for third at the 71st ECP Brazil Open.

Andrew Putnam, 37 University Place, Wash., punched his ticket to his sixth U.S. Open after surviving a marathon 9-hole sudden-death playoff with Spencer Tibbits. The pair played seven holes on Monday night before play was suspended for darkness. The playoff resumed at 7:30 a.m. local time and Putnam earned his tee time with a par on the par-5 18th.