2026 U.S. Open Second Round: Full List of Tee Times and How to Make the Cut at Shinnecock

How do golfers make the cut at the U.S. Open?

Scottie Scheffler and the rest of the 156-player field at the U.S. Open are hoping to stick around for the weekend at Shinnecock. | Bill Streicher-Imagn Images

You can’t win the U.S. Open on Thursday. But you can definitely lose it.

Thankfully, for those who do have a bad opening round Thursday, all 156 golfers in the 2026 U.S. Open will get another chance to fight the windy conditions at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club and punch their ticket into the weekend. As we know, nobody is safe from the cut until that golf ball rolls in on the 18th hole, especially at Shinnecock, one of the biggest challenges on American soil.

How to make the cut at the 2026 U.S. Open

The top 60 players (and ties) through Friday’s second round at Shinnecock will play on Saturday and Sunday. That’s a bigger weekend field than the Masters (top 50 and ties), but a more aggressive cut line than the PGA Championship and British Open (top 70 and ties).

Last year at Oakmont, the cut line was seven-over par—the highest mark at a U.S. Open since it was last held at Shinnecock in 2018. That year, the cut line was eight-over par.

Cut lines at the U.S. Open since 2016

Year	Course	Cut Line
2025	Oakmont	+7
2024	Pinehurst	+5
2023	Los Angeles Country Club	+2
2022	The Country Club	+3
2021	Torrey Pines	+4
2020	Winged Foot	+6
2019	Pebble Beach	+2
2018	Shinnecock	+8
2017	Erin Hills	+1
2016	Oakmont	+6

2026 U.S. Open Cut Line Prediction and Best Bets: Who Will Make the Weekend at Shinnecock

Let’s take a look at when those 156 golfers will tee off Friday, with the first groups set for launch at 6:35 p.m. ET and the final threesomes at 2:42 p.m. ET:

2026 U.S. Open tee times—second round

* = 10th tee start | (a) = amateur | all times ET

6:35 a.m.

• William Mouw
• Ryder Cowan (a)
• Hennie Du Plessis

6:35 a.m.*

• Niklas Norgaard
• Rocco Paolo Repetto Taylor
• Sudarshan Yellamaraju

6:46 a.m.

• Adrien Saddier
• Jackson Van Paris
• Ugo Coussaud

6:46 a.m.*

• Laurie Canter
• John Parry
• Bryan Lee (a)

6:57 a.m.

• Neal Shipley
• Matthias Schmid
• Bud Cauley

6:57 a.m.*

• Chris Kirk
• Max McGreevy
• Jake Knapp

7:08 a.m.

• Pierceson Coody
• Zac Blair
• Kevin Roy

7:08 a.m.*

• Harry Hall
• Michael Brennan
• Andrew Putnam

7:19 a.m.

• Aaron Rai
• Collin Morikawa
• Jason Day

7:19 a.m.*

• Davis Thompson
• Preston Stout (a)
• David Puig

7:30 a.m.

• Bryson DeChambeau
• Viktor Hovland
• Matt Fitzpatrick

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7:30 a.m.*

• Ryo Hisatsune
• Corey Conners
• Ryan Fox

7:41 a.m.

• Dustin Johnson
• Wyndham Clark
• Gary Woodland

7:41 a.m.*

• Ryan Gerard
• Russell Henley
• Ben Griffin

7:52 a.m.

• Joaquin Niemann
• Alex Smalley
• Shane Lowry

7:52 a.m.*

• Justin Thomas
• Hideki Matsuyama
• Xander Schauffele

8:03 a.m.

• Akshay Bhatia
• Carlos Ortiz
• Min Woo Lee

8:03 a.m.*

• Nicolai Hojgaard
• Nicolas Echavarria
• Robert MacIntyre

8:14 a.m.

• Justin Rose
• Jordan Spieth
• Jon Rahm

8:14 a.m.*

• J.T. Poston
• Patrick Cantlay
• Billy Horschel

8:25 a.m.

• Ben Kohles
• Johnny Keefer
• Matt McCarty

8:25 a.m.*

• Arni Sveinsson (a)
• Taihei Sato
• Marcelo Rozo

8:36 a.m.

• Angel Hidalgo
• Mateo Pulcini (a)
• Spencer Tibbits

8:36 a.m.*

• Nick Hardy
• Cole Hammer
• Jack Schoenberger

8:47 a.m.

• Matthew Robles (a)
• Jake Sollon
• Manav Shah

8:47 a.m.*

• Marek Fleming (a)
• TK Kim
• Giuseppe Puebla (a)

12:30 p.m.

• Chandler Phillips
• Harry Higgs
• Hamilton Coleman (a)

12:30 p.m.*

• James Nicholas
• Taylor Montgomery
• Caleb Surratt

12:41 p.m.

• Nathan Kimsey
• Jackson Herrington (a)
• Cooper Dossey

12:41 p.m.*

• Ethan Fang (a)
• Jayden Schaper
• Jackson Suber

12:52 p.m.

• Peter Uihlein
• Eric Lee (a)
• Samuel Stevens

12:52 p.m.*

• Chase Kyes (a)
• Matthew Jordan
• Alejandro Tosti

1:03 p.m.

• Adrien Dumont de Chassart
• Ben Silverman
• Emiliano Grillo

1:03 p.m.*

• Carl Yuan
• Brandon Wu
• Jimmy Stanger

1:14 p.m.

• Patrick Rodgers
• Keith Mitchell
• Graeme McDowell

1:14 p.m.*

• Padraig Harrington
• Miles Russell (a)
• Cameron Smith

1:25 p.m.

• Sungjae Im
• Lucas Herbert
• Kristoffer Reitan

1:25 p.m.*

• Brooks Koepka
• Cameron Young
• Chris Gotterup

1:36 p.m.

• Sam Burns
• Tyrrell Hatton
• Si Woo Kim

1:36 p.m.*

• Daniel Berger
• Keegan Bradley
• Rickie Fowler

1:47 p.m.

• Rory McIlroy
• Ludvig Aberg
• Tommy Fleetwood

1:47 p.m.*

• Patrick Reed
• Andrew Novak
• Kurt Kitayama

1:58 p.m.

• Alex Noren
• Maverick McNealy
• Sepp Straka

1:58 p.m.*

• Harris English
• Adam Scott
• Nick Taylor

2:09 p.m.

• Max Greyserman
• Brian Harman
• Jacob Bridgeman

2:09 p.m.*

• Mason Howell (a)
• Scottie Scheffler
• J.J. Spaun

2:20 p.m.

• Alex Fitzpatrick
• Tom Kim
• Benjamin James

2:20 p.m.*

• Sahith Theegala
• Jackson Koivun (a)
• Michael Kim

2:31 p.m.

• Brandon Holtz (a)
• Ryuichi Oiwa
• Dylan Wu

2:31 p.m.*

• J.B. Holmes
• Filippo Celli
• Jackson Ormond (a)

2:42 p.m.

• Greyson Leach
• Logan Reilly (a)
• Robbie Higgins

2:42 p.m.*

• Jake Peacock
• Vaughn Harber (a)
• Kaito Onishi

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