U.S. Open Golf 2024?

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 is the 1,000th USGA staged championship in the organization’s history.

Main article: Pinehurst Resort

Course layout

Course No. 2

Hole	Yards	Par		Hole	Yards	Par
1	395	4		10	617	5
2	504	4		11	482	4
3	387	4		12	486	4
4	528	4		13	381	4
5	588	5		14	472	4
6	228	3		15	197	3
7	426	4		16	530	4
8	488	4		17	207	3
9	184	3		18	448	4
Out	3,728	35		In	3,820	35
		Total			7,548	70

Field

The field for the U.S. Open was 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 was in two stages, local and final, with some players being exempted through to final qualifying.

Exemptions

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.

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)
• Jordan Spieth (11,21)
• Gary Woodland

• Jon Rahm (2,6,11,21) did not play due to an injury.

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

• Bernhard Langer did not play.

4. The winner of the 2023 U.S. Amateur

• Nick Dunlap

5. Winners of the 2023 U.S. Junior Amateur and U.S. Mid-Amateur, and the runner-up in the 2023 U.S. Amateur

• 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

• Ryan Fox

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 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

• Billy Horschel
• Mackenzie Hughes
• Peter Malnati
• Taylor Pendrith
• Erik van Rooyen

14. The top player on the 2023 Korn Ferry Tour points list

• Ben Kohles

15. The top 2 players on the 2023 Race to Dubai who are not yet exempt as of May 20

• Adrian Meronk
• Victor Perez

16. The top player on the 2024 Race to Dubai as of May 20 who is not yet exempt

• Rikuya Hoshino

17. The winner of the 2023 Amateur Championship

• Christo Lamprecht forfeited his exemption by turning professional.

18. The winner of the Mark H. McCormack Medal in 2023

• Gordon Sargent (a)

19. The individual winner of the 2024 NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Championship

• Hiroshi Tai (a)

20. The winner of the 2024 Latin America Amateur Championship

• Santiago de la Fuente (a)

21. The leading 60 players on the Official World Golf Ranking as of May 20

• Ludvig Åberg
• An Byeong-hun
• Christiaan Bezuidenhout
• Akshay Bhatia
• Eric Cole
• Thomas Detry
• Adam Hadwin
• Tom Hoge
• Nicolai Højgaard
• Stephan Jäger
• Chris Kirk
• Kurt Kitayama
• Jake Knapp
• Denny McCarthy
• Alex Norén
• Matthieu Pavon
• J. T. Poston
• Justin Rose
• Sahith Theegala
• Cameron Young
• Will Zalatoris

• 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

• Robert MacIntyre
• Adam Scott

23. Special exemptions

• Tiger Woods

Qualifiers

Date	Location	Venue	Field	Spots	Qualifiers
May 20	Surrey, England	Walton Heath Golf Club	102	9	Sam Bairstow, Grant Forrest, Matteo Manassero, Richard Mansell, Tom McKibbin, Edoardo Molinari, Brandon Robinson-Thompson, Robert Rock, Jason Scrivener
May 20	Hino, Japan	Hino Golf Club	34	3	Ryo Ishikawa, Riki Kawamoto, Taisei Shimizu
May 20	Dallas, Texas	Dallas Athletic Club (Gold and Blue courses)	138	11	Parker Bell (a), Eugenio Chacarra, Nico Echavarría, Takumi Kanaya, Kang Sung-hoon, Kim Seong-hyeon, Logan McAllister, Michael McGowan (L), Mac Meissner, Francesco Molinari, Brandon Wu
Jun 3	Ridgeway, Ontario, Canada	Cherry Hill Club	65	7	Rico Hoey, Mark Hubbard, Ashton McCulloch (a), Aaron Rai, Greyson Sigg, Adam Svensson, Davis Thompson
Jun 3	Daly City, California	Lake Merced Golf Club	84	4	John Chin (L), Omar Morales (a), David Puig, Charlie Reiter (L)
Jun 3	Jupiter, Florida	The Bear’s Club	73	5	Daniel Berger, Dean Burmester, Luke Clanton (a), Matt Kuchar, Willie Mack III (L)
Jun 3	Alpharetta, Georgia	The Golf Club of Georgia	68	3	Jackson Buchanan (a), Frederik Kjettrup (L), Chris Petefish
Jun 3	Rockville, Maryland	Woodmont Country Club	64	3	Isaiah Salinda, Tim Widing, Wells Williams (a)
Jun 3	Summit, New Jersey	Canoe Brook Country Club (North and South courses)	72	4	Max Greyserman, Jim Herman, Ben James (a), Andrew Svoboda
Jun 3	Durham, North Carolina	Duke University Golf Club	84	7	Sam Bennett, Brian Campbell, Frankie Capan III, Chesson Hadley, Harry Higgs, Carter Jenkins, Webb Simpson
Jun 3	Columbus, Ohio	Ohio State University Golf Club	68	5	Gunnar Broin (a,L), Justin Lower, Chris Naegel (L), Séamus Power, Brendon Todd
Jun 3	Springfield, Ohio	Springfield Country Club	64	4	Zac Blair, Cameron Davis, Beau Hossler, Carson Schaake (L)
Jun 3	Bend, Oregon	Pronghorn Resort	44	2	Colin Prater (a,L), Joey Vrzich (L)

The following players gained a place in the field having finished as the leading alternates in the specified final qualifying events:

• Casey Jarvis (England)
• Sergio García (Texas)
• Brendan Valdes (a) (Florida)
• Otto Black (L) (Columbus, Ohio)
• Maxwell Moldovan (Springfield, Ohio)
• Jackson Suber (Maryland)