{"id":23697,"date":"2026-06-19T14:11:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T14:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/23697\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T14:11:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T14:11:12","slug":"u-s-open-cut-line-notables-have-work-to-do-to-play-the-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/23697\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Open cut line: Notables have work to do to play the weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:Yahoo Sports US;\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><img alt=\"Yahoo Sports US\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"188\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/creatr-uploaded-images\/2021-06\/a6ae9d30-d9ed-11eb-97f6-17d4afb119eb.jpeg\"\/><\/a>Fri, 19 June 2026 at 1:50 pm UTC<img alt=\"Defending U.S. Open champion J.J. Spaun is one of those with work to do on Friday to make the cut. (Warren Little\/Getty Images)\" fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"976\" height=\"651\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/d29szjachogqwa.cloudfront.net\/images\/2026-06\/1d9baf03-13be-44d2-843e-412226cd380e.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Defending U.S. Open champion J.J. Spaun is one of those with work to do on Friday to make the cut. (Warren Little\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p> (Warren Little via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. \u2014 After a 14-hour Thursday and a barely-after-dawn start to Friday, there&#8217;s been little downtime at the 126th U.S. Open. But the end is coming rapidly for much of the 156-player field, as the cut line will send home both notables and little-knowns alike.<\/p>\n<p>The cut line at the U.S. Open is the top 60 and ties, meaning every player who&#8217;s tied for 60th place or better gets to play the weekend (and, importantly, cash a check).<\/p>\n<p>Early in Round 2, the cut had a roughly 50-percent chance of falling at +4, <a data-ylk=\"slk:per DataGolf,;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;cpos:1;pos:1;\" href=\"https:\/\/datagolf.com\/live-model\/pga-tour\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">per DataGolf,<\/a> with the next-best odds for +5 (35 percent). It&#8217;s highly unlikely to go any higher than +5, and there&#8217;s only about a 10 percent chance it could end up at +3.<\/p>\n<p>Players with work to do: defending champion J.J. Spaun (+7 after his first round), Si Woo Kim (+7), Daniel Berger (+7) and Joaquin Niemann (+6).<\/p>\n<p>Conditions are expected to be more benign Friday than Thursday&#8217;s late birdie-fest, but that likely means the course will be a tougher setup than Thursday, too. That could disadvantage the late-wave players, meaning several more could end up on the wrong side of the cut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fri, 19 June 2026 at 1:50 pm UTC Defending U.S. Open champion J.J. Spaun is one of those&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[1818,1752,1561],"class_list":["post-23697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-j-j-spaun","tag-cut-line","tag-daniel-berger","tag-j-j-spaun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}