Adam Scott will play his 100th consecutive major golf championship this week as the 2026 US Open returns to the iconic and demanding Shinnecock Hills in New York.
Australian live TV Coverage of the US Open will start mid evening Thursday and extend to mid morning.
2026 US OPEN: SHINNECOCK HILLS GOLF CLUB, NY
ROUND 1: Thursday 8:30pm – 10am (503 HD)
10:00pm – 9:00am – Featured Groups (505 HD)
ROUND 2: Friday 8:30pm – 10am (503 HD)
10:00pm – 9:00am – Featured Groups (505 HD)
ROUND 3: Saturday midnight – 10am (503 HD)
FINAL ROUND: Sunday 11.00pm – 9am (503 HD)
WRAP/PREVIEW SHOW: LIVE FROM THE US OPEN (503 HD)
Tuesday, 9:00am – 11:00am
Wednesday 9:00am – 11:00am
Thursday 9:00am – 11:00am
Friday 10am – Midday
Saturday 10am – Midday
Sunday 10am – Midday
Monday 9am – 11am
Aussies in the field
When Adam Scott embarks on his opening round on Thursday, only a month shy of his 46th birthday, he will have accomplished a feat that only golfing great Jack Nicklaus has previously achieved.
He will be joined at Shinnecock Hills by fellow Aussies Jason Day, Min Woo Lee, Cameron Smith and Lucas Herbert
Australasian Player Profiles
Jason Day
Age: 38
World ranking: 47
Previous US Opens: 13
Best US Open finish: T2 (2011, 2013)
Best finish in 2026: T2, The American Express (PGA TOUR)
How he qualified: Top 60 points leaders and ties from Official World Golf Ranking, as of May 18
Ryan Fox (NZ)
Age: 39
World ranking: 55
Previous US Opens: 7
Best US Open finish: T19 (2025)
Best finish in 2026: T7, The Genesis Invitational (PGA TOUR)
How he qualified: Top 60 points leaders and ties from Official World Golf Ranking, as of May 18
Lucas Herbert
Age: 30
World ranking: 88
Previous US Opens: 4
Best US Open finish: T31 (2020)
Best finish in 2026: Won, LIV Golf Virginia (LIV Golf)
How he qualified:
Min Woo Lee
Age: 27
World ranking: 35
Previous US Opens: 4
Best US Open finish: T3 (2023)
Best finish in 2026: T2, AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am (PGA TOUR)
How he qualified: Top 60 points leaders and ties from Official World Golf Ranking, as of May 18
Adam Scott
Age: 45
World ranking: 49
Previous US Opens: 24
Best US Open finish: T4 (2015)
Best finish in 2026: 4th, The Genesis Invitational (PGA TOUR)
How he qualified: Top 60 points leaders and ties from Official World Golf Ranking, as of May 18
Cameron Smith
Age: 32
World ranking: 136
Previous US Opens: 10
Best US Open finish: 4th (2023)
Best finish in 2026: T5, LIV Golf Andalucia (LIV Golf)
How he qualified: Winner of 2022 Open Championship
TONY WEBECK | GOLF AUSTRALIA/PGA OF AUSTRALIA WRITES:
It took almost 80 years for an Australian to win The Masters yet our record at the US Open Championship is almost as sparse.
It was an 86-year wait before David Graham delivered one of the great ball-striking performances in major championship history to win at Merion Golf Club in 1981.
Twenty years have now passed since Geoff Ogilvy won at Winged Foot, five Aussies tasked with bringing that drought to an end this week at Shinnecock Hills.
Arguably the toughest examination in all of golf, US Opens at Shinnecock Hills have not been without their drama.
Corey Pavin delivered one of the great final-hole shots on his way to winning in 1995; USGA officials were questioned for watering the baked-out greens mid-round on the final day of the 2004 championship and, in 2018, Phil Mickelson created a firestorm when he deliberately hit a moving ball on the 13th green during Round 3.
Four of the Aussies in the field this week – Jason Day, Lucas Herbert, Adam Scott and Cameron Smith – played that 2018 US Open at Shinnecock, all four failing to advance to the final two rounds.
That week was the 68th straight major championship for Scott, the 45-year-old Queenslander joining Jack Nicklaus as the only players to contest 100 straight majors this week.
“If you’re a Grand Slam winner, you can have years or two-year periods where you don’t play great and you fall outside the qualification process, but you get your way into the tournaments because you’re a past winner,” said Herbert.
“But other than The Masters, obviously Adam’s not a past winner.
“To be in form to meet the qualification process for every one of them for 25 years, that to me is the most impressive bit.
“That shows why he is the phenomenal player that he is and why we talk about him in the way that we do, because he’s just had such a consistently high-level career pretty much since everyone knew his name.”
Herbert makes his return to Shinnecock on the back of his first LIV Golf win at Virginia in May, Ripper GC teammate Cameron Smith buoyed by a tie for seventh at the PGA Championship at Aronimink Golf Club.