Cameron Young rallies to qualify for U.S. Open in playoff - ESPN

COLUMBUS, Ohio — On a long day when it seemed everything was going wrong, Cameron Young birdied three of his last four holes Monday to get into a five-way playoff and then made a 12-foot birdie to earn his spot in the U.S. Open in two weeks at Oakmont.

The drama went coast-to-coast, and even north of the border into Canada, with 47 places available at 10 qualifying sites to fill the field for the major regarded the toughest test in golf.

Young advanced with his clutch play, while Rickie Fowler was eliminated with a bogey.

Young, already enduring a tough year that forced him to do a 36-hole qualifier, hit 9-iron to 8 feet for birdie on the 15th, birdied the par-5 16th and then hit wedge to 18 inches on the final hole to earn a spot in the 5-for-1 playoff.

«I feel like I showed myself something today,» he said. «For so long today I saw nothing go in.»

The playoff began on the 10th hole, and Young hit driver into the left rough and judged his wedge perfectly to 12 feet below the hole.

«I started my day here 12 hours ago and made a 3, so I tried to do it again,» he said.

Erik van Rooyen opened with a 64 at Kinsale and had no trouble getting to Oakmont for the U.S. Open on June 12-15. He wound up six shots ahead of the field. Other qualifiers were Bud Cauley, Lanto Griffin, Justin Lower and, at No. 2,651 in the world ranking, Harrison Ott.

Cauley is No. 56 in the world, and is likely to stay in the top 60 after the Canadian Open and get in through that category. If that happens, Chase Johnson will get to his first U.S. Open. He won the playoff for the two alternate spots with Eric Cole.

In the other Ohio qualifier in Springfield, Zac Blair won a four-way playoff for the last spot by outlasting John Peterson, a former PGA Tour