Joakim Lagergren and Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen will make their U.S. Open debuts this week at Oakmont Country Club, eight months after graduating from the HotelPlanner Tour.
The duo both impressed on the 2024 Road to Mallorca, with Swede Lagergren a two-time winner, and Neergaard-Petersen from Denmark earning automatic promotion with three wins in the calendar year before going on to finish as the Road to Mallorca Number One.
Lagergren arrives in Pennsylvania having finished second in the KLM Open last week, while Neergaard-Petersen will be looking to continue the form that sees him sit 21st on the Race to Dubai, having racked up five top ten finishes in just 11 starts this term.
Neergaard-Petersen isn’t the only HotelPlanner Tour Rankings winner set to tee it up in the third Major Championship of the year, with 2011 Number One and Ryder Cup star, Tommy Fleetwood, and 2016 graduate Jordan Smith also in the field.
Two-time HotelPlanner Tour winner Ryan Fox graduated to the DP World Tour in 2016, and the New Zealander heads to Oakmont in the form of his life, with two PGA TOUR wins in his last four starts.
Three players from the class of 23 are also set to feature at the U.S. Open, with Englishman Sam Bairstow in the field for his second start in the event, while Italian Andrea Pavan and Frenchman Frederic Lacroix are set to make their debuts. Following that trend, 2021 graduate, Niklas Nørgaard from Denmark, Englishman Matthew Jordan, who earned promotion in 2019, and Jacques Kruyswijk, who secured a maiden HotelPlanner Tour win in 2023, will also make their U.S. Open debuts.
Several European Ryder Cup players that came through the HotelPlanner Tour are in the field too, including Englishmen Justin Rose, Tyrrell Hatton and Matthew Fitzpatrick, and Scotland’s Robert MacIntyre.
Five-time Major winner, Brooks Koepka, won three times in a single season on the HotelPlanner Tour back in 2013, and will be looking to win a third U.S. Open and Major number six this week.
In total, 31 former HotelPlanner Tour players are included in the 156-strong U.S. Open field this week.
