US Open Local Qualifying - debating whether to go, which site

[nevets88]

Other than proximity, is there a way to figure out which site best to go to? This coming Monday. Near me, there's Spring Lake, Essex in NJ and Southhampton in Long Island. There are 144 players in Essex, the biggest one. I'm leaning towards Southhampton because it's pretty out there, yeah, it's all about golf, lol. Anyways, still looking for list of qualifiers and other info to decide. WWYD?

[billchao]

20 minutes ago, nevets88 said:

WWYD?

I wouldn't go 😉

I'd probably pick a course I'd want to see, but distance is a factor.

[Ty_Webb]

3 hours ago, nevets88 said:

Other than proximity, is there a way to figure out which site best to go to? This coming Monday. Near me, there's Spring Lake, Essex in NJ and Southhampton in Long Island. There are 144 players in Essex, the biggest one. I'm leaning towards Southhampton because it's pretty out there, yeah, it's all about golf, lol. Anyways, still looking for list of qualifiers and other info to decide. WWYD?

Southampton is not sectional. That's the preliminary one. Standard there will be decent, but there won't be any PGA Tour players there. I'd wait and go to the sectional qualifier at Canoe Brook (I think it is). That has 50 odd PGA Tour players playing at it. Standard there will be the highest that you'll see outside of going to Shinnecock.

Southampton is right next door to Shinny though. I thought about playing there, but decided that my game isn't quite up to speed and I didn't want to find it very windy and get that letter from the USGA. Gonna stick with the US mid-am this year and toying with the US Am.

[nevets88]

5 minutes ago, Ty_Webb said:

Southampton is not sectional. That's the preliminary one. Standard there will be decent, but there won't be any PGA Tour players there. I'd wait and go to the sectional qualifier at Canoe Brook (I think it is). That has 50 odd PGA Tour players playing at it. Standard there will be the highest that you'll see outside of going to Shinnecock.

Southampton is right next door to Shinny though. I thought about playing there, but decided that my game isn't quite up to speed and I didn't want to find it very windy and get that letter from the USGA. Gonna stick with the US mid-am this year and toying with the US Am.

Thanks for the correction, leaning towards Southhampton.

[Wally Fairway]

I would go to the one with the most players, because I think that give the best chance for a playoff. I have been to a US Am qualifier, and the playoff was pretty exciting (right up to the point when they had to call it for darkness & finish it the next morning .... and I wasn't coming back to watch that)

[Friz]

I would look at who is in the field, but that said I don't know where to get this info.  Does anyone know if there is a list somewhere of who is in each qualifier?  Even for not going to watch I'd be interested in tracking how the PGA guys do that don't automatically qualify and are going through the local qualifiers.  Anyone know which PGA guys are playing in which local qualifiying tournaments?

[nevets88]

26 minutes ago, Friz said:

I would look at who is in the field, but that said I don't know where to get this info.  Does anyone know if there is a list somewhere of who is in each qualifier?  Even for not going to watch I'd be interested in tracking how the PGA guys do that don't automatically qualify and are going through the local qualifiers.  Anyone know which PGA guys are playing in which local qualifiying tournaments?

I used this one for New York, decided not to go to locals, did lookups on some of the names.

https://www.nysga.org/championships-usga-qualifiers-in-nys

https://www.golfgenius.com/pages/1342789