2024 U.S. Open (golf)
Tournament information | |
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Dates | June 13–16, 2024 |
Location | Pinehurst, North Carolina 35°11′22″N 79°28′04″W / 35.1895°N 79.4678°W |
Course(s) | Pinehurst Resort, Course No. 2 |
Organized by | USGA |
Tour(s) | PGA Tour European Tour Japan Golf Tour |
Statistics | |
Par | 70 |
Length | 7,543 yards (6,897 m) |
Field | 156 players |
Location map | |
Location in the United States Location in North Carolina | |
The 2024 United States Open Championship is the 124th U.S. Open, the national open golf championship of the United States. It is a 72-hole stroke play tournament scheduled for June 13–16 on course number 2 of Pinehurst Resort in Pinehurst, North Carolina. It will be the 1,000th USGA staged championship in the organization's history.
Course layout[edit]
Course No. 2
Hole | Yards | Par | Hole | Yards | Par | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 398 | 4 | 10 | 617 | 5 | |
2 | 500 | 4 | 11 | 478 | 4 | |
3 | 387 | 4 | 12 | 486 | 4 | |
4 | 528 | 4 | 13 | 381 | 4 | |
5 | 588 | 5 | 14 | 472 | 4 | |
6 | 216 | 3 | 15 | 199 | 3 | |
7 | 426 | 4 | 16 | 536 | 4 | |
8 | 492 | 4 | 17 | 207 | 3 | |
9 | 184 | 3 | 18 | 448 | 4 | |
Out | 3,719 | 35 | In | 3,824 | 35 | |
Source:[1] | Total | 7,543 | 70 |
Field[edit]
The field for the U.S. Open is made up of players who gain entry through qualifying events and those who are exempt from qualifying. The exemption criteria include provisions for recent major champions, winners of major amateur events, and leading players in the world rankings. Qualifying is in two stages, local and final, with some players being exempted through to final qualifying.
Exemptions[edit]
This list details the exemption criteria for the 2024 U.S. Open and the players who qualified under them; any additional criteria under which players were exempt is indicated in parentheses.[a]
1. Recent winners of the U.S. Open (2014–2023)
- Wyndham Clark (2,11,21)
- Bryson DeChambeau (21)
- Matt Fitzpatrick (11,21)
- Dustin Johnson (2,6)
- Martin Kaymer
- Brooks Koepka (7,21)
- Jon Rahm (2,6,11,21)
- Jordan Spieth (11,21)
- Gary Woodland
2. The leading ten players, and those tying for tenth place, in the 2023 U.S. Open
- Austin Eckroat (21)
- Harris English (21)
- Tommy Fleetwood (11,21)
- Rickie Fowler (11,21)
- Tom Kim (11,21)
- Min Woo Lee (21)
- Rory McIlroy (11,12,21)
- Xander Schauffele (7,11,21)
- Scottie Scheffler (6,9,11,12,21)
- Cameron Smith (8,9)
3. The winner of the 2023 U.S. Senior Open
4. The winner of the 2023 U.S. Amateur
5. Winners of the 2023 U.S. Junior Amateur and U.S. Mid-Amateur, and the runner-up in the 2023 U.S. Amateur[b]
- Stewart Hagestad (a)
- Bryan Kim (a)
- Neal Shipley (a)
6. Recent winners of the Masters Tournament (2020–2024)
- Hideki Matsuyama (21)
7. Recent winners of the PGA Championship (2019–2024)
- Phil Mickelson
- Collin Morikawa (8,11,21)
- Justin Thomas (21)
8. Recent winners of The Open Championship (2019–2023)
- Brian Harman (11,21)
- Shane Lowry (21)
9. Recent winners of The Players Championship (2022–2024)
10. The winner of the 2023 BMW PGA Championship
11. All players who qualified and were eligible for the 2023 Tour Championship
- Keegan Bradley (21)
- Sam Burns (21)
- Patrick Cantlay (21)
- Corey Conners (21)
- Jason Day (21)
- Tony Finau (21)
- Lucas Glover (12,21)
- Emiliano Grillo (21)
- Tyrrell Hatton (21)
- Russell Henley (21)
- Max Homa (21)
- Viktor Hovland (12,21)
- Im Sung-jae (21)
- Kim Si-woo (21)
- Taylor Moore (21)
- Adam Schenk (21)
- Sepp Straka (21)
- Nick Taylor (21)
12. Winners of multiple PGA Tour events[c] from the 2023 U.S. Open to the start of the 2024 tournament
13. The top 5 players in the FedEx Cup standings as of May 20 who are not yet exempt
14. The top player on the 2023 Korn Ferry Tour points list
15. The top 2 players on the 2023 Race to Dubai who are not yet exempt as of May 20
16. The top player on the 2024 Race to Dubai as of May 20 who is not yet exempt
17. The winner of the 2023 Amateur Championship[b]
18. The winner of the Mark H. McCormack Medal in 2023[b]
- Gordon Sargent (a)
19. The individual winner of the 2024 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship[b]
- Hiroshi Tai (a)
20. The winner of the 2024 Latin America Amateur Championship[b]
21. The leading 60 players on the Official World Golf Ranking as of May 20
- Grayson Murray died before the tournament.
22. The leading 60 players on the Official World Golf Ranking if not otherwise exempt as of June 10
23. Special exemptions
Qualifiers[edit]
Alternates who gained entry[edit]
The following players gained a place in the field having finished as the leading alternates in the specified final qualifying events:
- Casey Jarvis (England)[e]
Notes[edit]
- ^ a b (a) – denotes amateur.
- ^ a b c d e Players qualifying in this category must remain an amateur through the conclusion of the U.S. Open.
- ^ Events must carry full-point allocation towards the FedEx Cup.
- ^ (L) – denotes a player who progressed through local qualifying.
- ^ Added to field the week prior to the tournament.
References[edit]
- ^ "U.S. Open Golf Championship". ESPN. Course stats). June 14, 2014. Retrieved January 13, 2019.