Both Adam Scott and Sergio Garcia's major championship streaks will survive this U.S. Open.
Getty Images After coming up just short for a U.S. Open spot in final qualifying, Adam Scott will have a tee time at Pinehurst No.
2 this week after all. So, too, will another familiar name: Sergio Garcia. Scott was one of two players who became exempt Monday for this week’s national championship by way of the final Official World Rankings cutoff.
The 2013 Masters winner was No. 61 in the ranking as of Monday morning, with the top 60 being exempt for the championship, but the late Grayson Murray was ranked 59th. When the USGA removed Murray from the eligibility list, Scott earned a berth in the third major of the year.
This week will mark Scott’s 92nd consecutive major played, a streak dating back to the 2001 Open Championship when he was just 21. The next longest active streak belongs to Jordan Spieth, at less than half that total: 43 consecutive starts. Having entered June at 58th in the world, Scott was in a precarious position to miss his first major in more than two decades after a missed cut at the PGA Championship sent him out of the top 60, just before the first of two top-60 ranking cutoffs for the U.
S. Open. Scott entered the Springfield, Ohio, U.
S. Open Final Qualifier , but wavered on actually playing in it. He ultimately decided to tee it up after a T12 finish at the Charles Schwab Challenge and led the 36-hole qualifier for most of the day.
But a bogey on the final ho.
