Despite winning the 2013 US Open in Merion, Justin Rose did not automatically qualify for the 124th edition scheduled for June 13 to 16 in North Carolina. But by taking joint sixth place at the PGA Championship in Louisville (Kentucky), the Englishman entered the safe top 60 and thus validated his ticket to Pinehurst!
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No longer eligible this time after his ten-year exemption, Justin Rose should achieve a great blow in Louisville (Kentucky) during the 106th PGA Championship to hope to competeUS Open from June 13 to 16 Pinehurst (North Carolina). By taking sixth place in the 2nd Major of the season, especially in the company of the Irishman Shane Lowrythe Englishman, 43 years old, won the same US Open in 2013 at Merion Golf Club (Pennsylvania), entered the top 60 qualifiers on May 20, 2024.
By occupying the 56th place in the world in the rankings updated in the evening by the USPGA, twelve rankings better than last week, Rose thus confirms a 19th join the US Open where, in addition to his success mentioned above, he also showed four more. top 10s.
Thomas Detrystill awaiting direct qualification for Pinehurst, did the job as they say by taking fourth place at the PGA Championship, six shots behind the winner, Xander Schauffele. The Belgian advanced seventeen places in the world ranking and is now in the 54th position. This will be his third US Open after a 49th-place finish in 2020 and an uncut in 2021.
Five in a row for Victor Perez
Several other players who were in the top 60 in the world on May 20 but have not yet officially qualified will also be in North Carolina in a month: Byeong Hun An, Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Akshay Bhatia, Eric Cole, Adam Hadwin, Tom Hoge, Nicholas Højgaard, Stephan Jaeger, Chris Kirk, Kurt Kitayama, Jake Knapp, Denny McCarthy, Grayson Murray, Alex Noren, JT Poston, Sahith Theegala, Cameron Young, Will Zalatoris etc Matthew Pavon.
Ranked 21st in the world, the Frenchman will play his fourth US Open here. 25 to Hills of Shinnecock Hills (2018), he did not make the cut the following year nor the previous year Los Angeles Country Club. The Bordeaux player with Victor Perez. Tarbais, as we already informed you a few weeks ago, qualified through the top 2 of the Race to Dubai 2023 not yet exempt thanks to his 7th place (like Pole Adrian Meronk, 4th). Now since the 2020 US Open, he remains on four consecutive missed cuts.
While waiting for the 36-hole qualifiers scheduled for June 3 at ten sites in Canada and the United States, 83 players have confirmed their presence at Pinehurst, on the legendary route n°2. This is the fourth time this site has been selectedUSGA (United States Golf Association) to host the US Open after 1999 (victory to Payne Stewart), 2005 (victory to Michael Campbell) and 2014 (victory in Martin Kaymer).