F-2: Top 10 scorers and ties from 2025 U.S. Open
F-9: Winner of 2026 The Players Championship
F-11: Those who qualified for the season-ending 2025 Tour Championship
F-12: Winners of multiple PGA Tour co-sponsored events that award full FedExCup points from end of 2025 U.S. Open to the initiation of the 2026 championship

Young, a former standout at Wake Forest University, will make his seventh U.S. Open start after registering his biggest victory of his professional career at The Players Championship in March. This came after he recorded his maiden PGA Tour win at the 2025 Wyndham Championship. Young also tied for fourth in the 2025 U.S. Open as well as qualifying for the season-ending Tour Championship. Young was named the 2022 PGA Tour Rookie of the Year after tying for third in the PGA Championship at Southern Hills Country Club, in Tulsa, Okla., and then following it up with a runner-up showing in the 150th Open Championship on the Old Course at St. Andrews . Before gaining his PGA Tour status for the 2021-22 season, Young registered a pair of Korn Ferry Tour wins on consecutive weekends in May 2021: the AdventHealth Championship and Evans Scholars Invitational presented by First Midwest Bank. The son of former Sleepy Hollow Country Club head professional David Young registered three victories in his senior season for the Demon Deacons and had a stroke average of 70.56. In 2017 he became the first amateur to win the New York State Open. He advanced to the quarterfinals of the 2014 U.S. Amateur and was a member of the 2014 USA Junior Ryder Cup Team. Young also was a member of the victorious 2022 U.S. Presidents Cup Team and represented the U.S. in the 2025 Ryder Cup Matches.