U.S. Open 2014 sectional qualifying: Tee times, courses, live results and more

Golf’s longest day went deep into the evening on Monday night, but after multiple playoffs in the gloaming, we finally secured 57 sectional qualifiers for the U.S. Open. The two biggest sectionals, Columbus and Memphis, needed extra holes but unlike last year, we were able to wrap up all sessions in one day. For a review of the six sites that finished up earlier in the day, visit our sectional qualifying stream. Here are the late results from Monday.

The Memphis sectional is close to Columbus in terms of depth, with lots of PGA Tour pros in the area for the FedEx St. Jude Classic this week. Some played at Memorial on Sunday and opted to make the trip to Tennessee, while others have been waiting for their shot to play their way into the national championship. Hudson Swafford set the pace with a 10-under score through 36 holes to earn medalist honors.

Golf’s longest day is coming to a close, with playoffs for the final spots going on in the Midwest and the two West Coast sites wrapping up their 36-hole day. Here are the results from three more of the smaller, earlier sectionals who will send 11 more players to Pinehurst (update on first three sectionals here).

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This happens more than it should, which is never. Tough few days for golfers with that surname.

Two-time U.S. Open winner Lee Janzen failed on Monday to punch his ticket to Pinehurst for next week’s tournament, finishing T7 in sectional qualifying in Purchase, N.Y. But it was long-time journeyman Geoffrey Sisk’s against-all-odds attempt to make it to his eighth national championship that caught the attention of many golf watchers in New England and beyond.

Two Massachusetts players, 49-year-old Fran Quinn and 34-year-old Rob Oppenheim, tied for medalist honors in the 36-hole qualifying tourney at Old Oaks Country Club and Century Country Club, each finishing at 3-under 138. Another Bay State golfer, James Renner, finished one shot back, and New Yorker Matthew Dobyns’ even-par score was good enough to round out the fourth spot available at the locale.

Golf’s longest day is starting to wrap up at some of the smaller sectional qualifying sites in the eastern United States. Players at the Florida, New York, and Georgia sites can rest easy, with our first 10 qualifiers making it to Pinehurst. Here’s a rundown from some of the earlier sectionals.

The biggest story from this sectional was not the four guys who made it through, but the one who didn’t for signing an incorrect scorecard. Landon Michelson, who just finished his college career at Rice, signed a card that was one shot lower than his actual score. It was almost certainly an honest mistake, and his actual score, one stroke higher, still would have put him in a playoff for the final spot. He started the day not even eligible to play in the sectional, but when Tour pro Freddie Jacobson did not show up, Michelson got in and then took advantage by playing well enough to get to the U.S. Open. Unfortunately, signing an incorrect card is something that happens with greater frequency than you can imagine.

Unless John Merrick is playing really, really poorly, and someone named Jason Gandy is on the best non Kim Jong-il golf run in history, then I think the USOpen.com scoreboard might be broken.

So yeah, if you’re following the low scores online, proceed with caution.

Patrick Cantlay’s struggling recovery from a back injury continued during U.S. Open sectional qualifying on Monday. The 22-year-old was once thought be the top American prospect after making noise at some of the biggest events as a teenage amateur. But since turning pro, Cantlay has failed to register on the PGA Tour and has not played in a major championship since that 2012 U.S. Open at Olympic.

This year, Cantlay was attempting to qualify at Woodmont Country Club and was one of the bigger names at that sectional site just outside of Washington, D.C. But according to the Washington Post’s Barry Svrluga, Cantlay called it quits after his first 18 holes and didn’t bother turning in a scorecard.

There’s just one more stop on the PGA Tour until it’s U.S. Open week, and with the season’s second major rapidly approaching, the field is starting to take shape for Pinehurst. Of course, a huge chunk of the entrants list won’t be determined until Monday evening, when sectional qualifying fills out the second half of the field.

As of Sunday afternoon, 74 players are confirmed for the 2014 U.S. Open. The field is 156 players deep, a dramatic change from the season’s first major, where the green jackets at Augusta start to panic if the number approaches the century mark. At the U.S. Open, we get groups of three off split tees for sun-up to sun-down golf the first two days. It’s a logistical challenge, and we saw inclement weather signifcantly disrupt the schedulding last year at Merion, where it took two days to catch up. The Open Championship and PGA Championship have comparably sized fields as well, but the ample hours of sunlight in Britian in July provide a bit more cushion.