Blog#333 US Open 2026 FINAL ROUND

Thursday June 25, 2026 Blog#333 US Open 2026 FINAL ROUND

Total Purse was $22.5 M same as 2025

1 Wyndham Clark-4 73 3 bogies on 1st 7 holes to lose big lead, but 2 birdies #10&16. $4.5M

2 Sam Burns-3 67 Two +par RDs 1&3 put him far behind, but he almost pulled it off. $2.3M

3 Tom Kim-1 70 Without a doubt his best tournament$1.5M

4 Keith Mitchell E 70 Close to the lead with 4 RDs of 70 and 3rd top 6 this year, $921K

4 Scottie Scheffler E 71 Again inconsistent RDs 2+pars and 2-pars. $921K

4 JT Poston E 67 After a win at Memorial, another good tournament. $921K

7 Sam Stevens +1 72 Up with leaders 1st 2RDs but 8 bogies last 2. $617K

7 Tyrrell Hatton+1 Best showing by a LIV player after starting#85 after RD1. $617K

7 Gary Woodland+1 Continues to play excellent golf with 1 win this year and 5 top 20’s. $617K

7Jaquine Niemann+1 66 Low score for RD 4 and if not for the 11 RD 2 may have won. $486K

11 Tommy Fleetwood+2 71 Looked like he had a chance to win early, but 0 RDs-par. $406K

11 Xander Scheffele+2 One of the real favorites s 4th to win but only 1 RD-par. $406K

11 S Theegala+2 73 Another bad start in final RD 1 DB 2 bogies 1st 6 holes. $406K

17 Ludvig Aberg+3 66 As usual 1 distarous RD, 76 in RD3. $317K

17 Colin Morikawa+3 72 Still having injury issues, 1 great RD2 low 65 but+par other 3. $317K

17 Justin Thomas+3 71 Like Aberg, always seems to have I triable RD, 75 ib RD3. $317K

22 Matt Fitzpatrick+4 73 In 3rd place after RD1, but par 2nd +par 3&4. $230K

23 E Grillo+5 75 Has missed 7 of 16 cuts and FedX ranked #105, will lose card 2027. $215K

23 Ben James+5 67 Again played well in only his 2nd tournament, top 10 after RD1. $215K

32 Rory McIlroy+6 73 Twelve bogies in last 2 RDs, DB RD2, never in it. $148K

32 Dustin Johnson+6 72 Looked like old self, #2 after RD1 but +6 on holes 11&15 RD2. $148K

43 Harry Higgs+8 One of my favorites, will be recognized any time he makes the cut. $93K

43 Chris Gotterup+8 71 Only 1 sub par RD and has not played as well as start of year $73K

43 Cameron Young+8 73 0 RDs-par, finished strong 3 birdies last 8 holes. $73K

43 Max Greyserman+8 70 After good 2025 year, missed 8 of 17 cuts$ this year. $93K

56 Jordon Spieth+10 74 To many bogies 4 of last 6 holes, 12 and 2 DBs total. $48K

65 Russell Henley+14 71 Picked to be in top 10 but shoots 80 in RD3, no RDs-par. $44K

Unexpected CUTs R Fowler, P Reed, B DeChambeau, V Hovland, SW Kim, S Lowry,

J Rahm, P Cantlay

SUMMARY

Only 3 players broke par.

Clark starts the final RD with a 6 shot lead over Scheffler, Stevens, Theegala and Kim,

and a 7 shot lead over Burns, Mitchell, Grillo and Schauffele.

ROUND 4 Front9 Clark’s lead drops to from 6 to 1 with 3 bogies to Burns 4 birdies &1 bogie.

Back9 It is now basically between Burns and Clark who birdies #10 to go up 2.

Burns misses a 3’ putt for bogie on #15 now down 3, but he makes a long birdie putt on 16 to get within 1 as Clark bogies #13, but he birdies #16 to get lead back to 2 with 2 holes to go.

A bogie on 17, but par on 18, and he wins going wire to wire with never losing the lead.