Young rallies to clinch U.S. Open spot in playoff

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- On a agelong time erstwhile it felt everything was going wrong, Cameron Young birdied 3 of his past 4 holes Monday to get into a 5-for-1 playoff and past made a 12-foot birdie to gain his spot successful the U.S. Open successful 2 weeks astatine Oakmont.

The play went coast-to-coast, and adjacent northbound of the borderline into Canada, with 47 places disposable astatine 10 qualifying sites to capable the tract for the large regarded the toughest trial successful golf.

Young precocious with his clutch play, portion Rickie Fowler was eliminated with a bogey.

Young, already enduring a pugnacious twelvemonth that forced him to bash a 36-hole qualifier, deed 9-iron to 8 feet for birdie connected the 15th, birdied the par-5 16th and past deed wedge to 18 inches connected the last spread to gain a spot successful the 5-for-1 playoff.

"I consciousness similar I showed myself thing today," helium said. "For truthful agelong contiguous I saw thing spell in."

The playoff began connected the 10th hole, and Young deed operator into the near unsmooth and judged his wedge perfectly to 12 feet beneath the hole.

"I started my time present 12 hours agone and made a 3, truthful I tried to bash it again," helium said.

Erik van Rooyen opened with a 64 astatine Kinsale and had nary occupation getting to Oakmont for the U.S. Open connected June 12-15. He coiled up six shots up of the field. Other qualifiers were Bud Cauley, Lanto Griffin, Justin Lower and Harrison Ott, astatine No. 2,651 successful the satellite ranking.

Cauley is No. 56 successful the world, and is apt to enactment successful the apical 60 aft the Canadian Open and get successful done that category. If that happens, Chase Johnson would get to his archetypal U.S. Open. He won the playoff for the 2 alternate spots with Eric Cole.

In the different Ohio qualifier successful Springfield, Zac Blair won a 4-for-1 playoff for the past spot by outlasting John Peterson, a erstwhile PGA Tour subordinate who retired and past asked to beryllium reinstated arsenic an amateur.

The 4 spots from the Florida qualifier did not decorativeness due to the fact that of a rainfall delay.

Three of the 5 spots from the Atlanta qualifier went to amateurs, with 17-year-old Mason Howell starring the way. The precocious schoolhouse inferior played bogey-free for an 18-under 126. Also qualifying was Jackson Koivun of Auburn, who already has locked up a PGA Tour card, and Florida State sophomore Tyler Weaver.

Qualifiers successful Toronto and North Carolina each offered 7 spots -- the PGA Tour is successful Canada this week and the Korn Ferry Tour is successful its Carolinas swing.

Thorbjorn Olesen of Denmark and Emiliano Grillo of Argentina were among the 7 qualifiers successful Canada, wherever Kevin Velo led the field. In North Carolina, Zach Bauchou led the 7 players who got into Oakmont. Bauchou was successful the Ohio qualifier 2 years agone erstwhile helium had his assemblage roommate - Viktor Hovland - caddie for him a time aft Hovland won the Memorial.

Most of the LIV Golf players who tried to suffice -- oregon thought astir it, anyhow -- were competing for 4 spots successful Maryland. Marc Leishman of Australia, who has not qualified for a large the past 2 years since joining LIV, bushed retired chap LIV subordinate Sebastián Muñoz to gain 1 of the 4 spots.

Fifteen players from LIV primitively were successful the Maryland field. Five did not crook successful cards erstwhile it was wide they wouldn't marque it -- not antithetic for circuit players -- portion 5 withdrew earlier it began, including Bubba Watson and Lee Westwood.

The Associated Press contributed to this story.