2,585 Entries for 45th U.S. Senior Open; 10 Past Champs Exempt

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Ten champions, including two-time titleholder Bernhard Langer, are among the 2,585 entries accepted by the USGA for the 45th U.S. Senior Open Championship. The U.S. Senior Open will be played for the third time at The Broadmoor’s East Course, in Colorado Springs, Colo., from June 26-29.

Langer, the 2010 and 2023 winner, and nine other U.S. Senior Open champions are fully exempt from having to qualify for the championship. They are: Brad Bryant (2007), Fred Funk (2009), Jim Furyk (2021), Padraig Harrington (2022), Jeff Maggert (2015), Colin Montgomerie (2014), Gene Sauers (2016), Steve Stricker (2019) and David Toms (2018).

“The USGA is excited to return to The Broadmoor, a partnership that began in the 1950s and a site that has fully embraced professional, amateur and international competition,” said USGA Chief Championships Officer John Bodenhamer. “As we employ two-stage qualifying for the first time there continues to be great interest in participating in a process that allows thousands of golfers worldwide an opportunity to compete for a place in senior golf’s most prestigious championship.”

The USGA accepted entries for the 2025 championship from golfers in 49 U.S. states, including 101 from host state Colorado, as well as the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and 34 foreign countries.

The U.S. Senior Open is open to professional golfers, and amateurs with a Handicap Index® not exceeding 2.4, who are at least 50 years of age by the start of championship play.

For the first time since its inception in 1980, the U.S. Senior Open will feature a qualifying framework that is comparable to the U.S. Open with two stages that includes local and final sites. Local qualifying, conducted over 18 holes at 32 sites in 25 U.S. states, will take place from April 3-May 9. Those players who advance will join a group of locally exempt players in final qualifying, which will also be conducted over 18 holes. This final stage will be held at 12 sites across the U.S., from May 19-June 12. Additional places in the 156-player field are reserved for eligible winners of official PGA Tour and PGA Tour Champions events in the weeks remaining before the 2025 U.S. Senior Open.

There are six U.S. Open champions among the 88 exempt players. They include two-time champions Ernie Els (1994, 1997), Retief Goosen (2001, 2004) and Lee Janzen (1993, 1998), as well as Michael Campbell (2005), Angel Cabrera (2007) and Furyk (2003). Eight U.S. Open runners-up are also exempt: Els (2000), Furyk (2006, 2007, 2016), Miguel Angel Jimenez (2000), Tom Lehman (1996), Davis Love III (1996), Rocco Mediate (2008), Montgomerie (1994, 1997, 2006) and Jeff Sluman (1992).

A number of major champions are also among the group of exempt players, including Masters winners Cabrera, Fred Couples, Langer, Vijay Singh and Mike Weir; PGA champions Harrington, Love III, Singh, Sluman, Toms and Y.E. Yang; and winners of The Open Championship: Mark Calcavecchia, Stewart Cink, Darren Clarke, Els, Harrington, Lehman and Justin Leonard.

Juan Angel, a 55-year-old amateur from Colombia, submitted his entry 3 minutes before the deadline of 5 p.m. EDT on March 26. Mark O’Sullivan, a 50-year-old amateur from Mesa, Ariz., was the first entrant on Feb. 18. Don Klenk, a professional from Burr Ridge, Ill., is the oldest entrant at age 77.

The Broadmoor is hosting its third Senior Open and ninth USGA championship. Major professional champions Jack Nicklaus (1959 U.S. Amateur), Juli Inkster (1982 U.S. Women’s Amateur), Annika Sorenstam (1995 U.S. Women’s Open), So Yeon Ryu (2011 U.S. Women’s Open) and Toms (2018 U.S. Senior Open) have won at the historic venue.

The list of the 88 golfers who are fully exempt into the 2025 U.S. Senior Open (as of March 26):

Steven Alker
Robert Allenby
Stephen Ames
Billy Andrade
Stuart Appleby
Woody Austin
Peter Baker
Doug Barron
Shane Bertsch
Thomas Bjorn
Paul Broadhurst
a-Louis Brown
Brad Bryant
Angel Cabrera
Mark Calcavecchia
Chad Campbell
Michael Campbell
Jason Caron
Alex Cejka
Greg Chalmers
Ho Sung Choi
K.J. Choi
Stewart Cink
Darren Clarke
Robert Coles
Fred Couples
Adilson da Silva
Stephen Dodd
Ken Duke
Scott Dunlap
Joe Durant
Ernie Els
Bob Estes
Steve Flesch
Harrison Frazar
Hiroyuki Fujita
Fred Funk
Jim Furyk
Stephen Gallacher
Brian Gay
Thomas Gogele
Ricardo Gonzalez
Retief Goosen
Richard Green
Simon Griffiths
Jay Haas
Joakim Haeggman
Padraig Harrington
Scott Hend
Mark Hensby
Keith Horne
Greig Hutcheon
Freddie Jacobson
Thongchai Jaidee
Lee Janzen
Miguel Angel Jimenez
Takashi Kanemoto
Shingo Katayama
Jerry Kelly
James Kingston
Bernhard Langer
Tom Lehman
Justin Leonard
Davis Love III
Jeff Maggert
Rocco Mediate
Katsumasa Miyamoto
Colin Montgomerie
Tim O’Neal
Rod Pampling
Cameron Percy
Tom Pernice Jr.
Tim Petrovic
Brett Quigley
Gene Sauers
Vijay Singh
Jeff Sluman
Paul Stankowski
Steve Stricker
a-Daniel Sullivan
Kevin Sutherland
Ken Tanigawa
David Toms
Kirk Triplett
Scott Verplank
Mike Weir
a-Todd White
Y.E. Yang

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