{"id":47352,"date":"2026-05-19T04:07:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T08:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/former-champion-mcdowell-qualified-for-us-open\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T04:07:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T08:07:28","slug":"former-champion-mcdowell-qualified-for-us-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/former-champion-mcdowell-qualified-for-us-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Former champion McDowell qualified for US Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Former US Open champion Graham McDowell has secured one of the final nine spots for this year&#8217;s tournament at Sinek Hills.<\/p>\n<p>McDowell, a native of Northern Ireland, cruised through the 36-hole qualifying round in Dallas with a second-round 69.<\/p>\n<p>advertisement<\/p>\n<p>It will be McDowell&#8217;s first major since the 10-year exemption for winning the U.S. Open ended in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The 46-year-old, who is considering rejoining the DP World Tour with the Irish Open and Ryder Cup in mind, joined the outgoing LIV Golf Tour in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Northern Ireland&#8217;s Tom McKibbin withdrew from the tournament in Dallas, and Sergio Garcia missed out by two strokes.<\/p>\n<p>The US Open will be held from June 18th to 21st at Sinek Hills on Long Island, New York.<\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former US Open champion Graham McDowell has secured one of the final nine spots for this year&#8217;s tournament at Sinek Hills. McDowell, a native of Northern Ireland, cruised through the 36-hole qualifying round in Dallas with a second-round 69. advertisement It will be McDowell&#8217;s first major since the 10-year exemption for winning the U.S. Open [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[17],"class_list":{"0":"post-47352","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}