2025 US Open  |  Oakmont, Pennsylvania  |  June 14-17

Can Bryson go back-to-back? 

IT was a memorable victory at Pinehurst in 2024, with Bryson DeChambeau outlasting Rory McIlroy in a last round shootout to secure a second US Open title. 

That win came four years on from his first US Open triumph in 2020, with DeChambeau showing a liking for what is traditionally golf’s most demanding course set up. 

Now 12 months on from his second national open victory, and with a couple of his high-profile rivals in form after taking out the first two major championships of 2025, the question is, can Bryson go back-to-back at the upcoming US Open? 

On recent form, many will agree it is a distinct possibility, with DeChambeau threatening for a time over the final two rounds of the PGA Championship, before finishing as the runner up, coming after playing alongside McIlroy in the last group on Sunday at the US Masters in April. 

And in between the two major championship events, DeChambeau claimed an impressive win on the LIV Golf Tour in South Korea. In a last day duel with Charles Howell, DeChambeau countered his Crushers GC teammate’s nine-under par 63 with a 66 of his own to win by two shots. 

Prior to that at his previous two LIV events DeChambeau had been in winning positions, leading after 36-holes on both occasions before being run down by Joaquin Niemann in Mexico City and by Aussie Marc Leishman in Miami. 

While the two US Open wins on DeChambeau’s resume is impressive and will give him confidence, so too will his tie for 15th as a 21-year-old rookie professional when the tournament was last played at Oakmont back in 2016.

However, while DeChambeau will arrive at the 2025 staging of the US Open as one of the favourites, the challengers are lining up. 

McIlroy will be looking for some sort of redemption after his heartbreaking US Open loss last year, Scottie Scheffler now has three major titles to his credit and is a player to beat every time he tees it up, while Jon Rahm is a class performer who bobbed up at the PGA and wouldn’t surprise were he to win at Oakmont. 

Throw in Niemann, the standout player on the LIV Tour over the past two years, Xander Schauffele, a two-time major champion in 2024, along with the young guns including Ludvig Aberg, and the 2025 US Open, bringing the best players together, promises to be another enthralling contest. 

Scott’s major streak continues – but now there’s work to be done

While the ramifications may not be felt until next year, following a late collapse at the PGA Championship 44-year-old Adam Scott will have some work to do should he hope to continue his remarkable streak of consecutive appearances in the major championships. 

Scott had climbed the leaderboard at Quail Hollow in Charlotte in the final round, and at six-under playing the short 14th hole, a score which would finish second, was every chance of finishing amongst the leaders. 

What followed was a bogey at 14, another at 17, then a double bogey six at the par four 18th and Scott slipped to a tie for 19th, outside the top 15 who earn an automatic exemption into the field for the 2026 PGA Championship. 

The US Open will be Adam Scott’s 96th consecutive appearance in a major championship.

As a result of his late round struggles, Scott will now have to earn a place in next year’s event by other means, for what would potentially be his 99th consecutive appearance at a major, the longest sequence among active players.

The PGA Championship was his 95th major in a row, with his unbroken 24-year sequence, which began at the 2001 Open Championship, almost double that of Jordan Spieth, who with 49 appearances has the next-longest run among active players. 

The streak is second only to Jack Nicklaus who played 146 majors without missing one between 1962 and 1998.

Scott, who will play the upcoming US Open, then the Open Championship at Portrush, before as a former champion the US Masters next April, could guarantee a start at the 2026 PGA by winning another PGA TOUR event, or by finishing in the top-70 on the season-long PGA TOUR FedEx Cup rankings.