US Open spots up for grabs on golf’s longest day
Karl Vilips – despite winning on the PGA Tour this season still needs to qualify for the US Open
Currently, five Australasians are qualified to play the upcoming US Open at the Oakmont Country Club in Pennsylvania beginning on June 12th. Those players are Min Woo Lee, Jason Day, Adam Scott, Cam Davis and Cam Smith but in tomorrow’s Final Qualifying being held over 36 holes at ten different venues across the USA, another twelve will attempt to gain one of the final positions remaining in the field.
They are among the nearly 10,000 original entrants for the event, a number that will eventually be dwindled down to 156.
Australians Lucas Herbert, Karl Vilips, Marc Leishman, Matt Jones, Wade Ormsby, Harrison Crowe, Rika Batibasaga and Josh Edgar and Gareth Steyn will be joined by New Zealanders Ben Campbell, Nick Voke, Jimmy Zheng, and Josh Bai as they chase one of the much-sought-after places in the field.
Several of these golfers survived local qualifying to get into Final Qualifying
New Zealand’s Ryan Fox was also scheduled to tee it up at Final Qualifying, but a search of the tee times suggests he will not do so and it appears after a busy schedule, including this coming week’s Canadian Open, he is taking a break.
Fox is currently in 78th position in the world ranking, and the only means he now has of making the field is to probably win the Canadian Open.
