Scottie Scheffler Chases Career Grand Slam At 2026 US Open

Scottie Scheffler showed up at the 2026 U.S. Open with a chance to achieve the career Grand Slam, a feat that only six golfers have ever pulled off. The timing makes the story even more special because the final round on Sunday lands right on his 30th birthday.

The tournament is happening at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club in Southampton, New York, which is running June 18 through 21, and it's the 126th time this championship has been played. Scheffler already has the Masters wrapped up twice, in 2022 and 2024, plus last year's PGA Championship and Open Championship, so the US Open is the only piece which is indeed still missing.

There's a catch to all this though. Scheffler has never actually played Shinnecock Hills before, and the course doesn't really resemble the kind of manicured parkland setups he's used to dominating. His season hasn't been quite as sharp either, with only one win on the PGA Tour so far this year, back at the American Express in January.

Rory McIlroy is the next name on the betting sheet, coming off back-to-back Masters titles and saying outright that he wants to win at golf'sbigger, older venues, which is exactly the kind of course Shinnecock is for him. Jon Rahm follows after finishing runner-up at last month's PGA Championship, a result that brought him back into the conversation after a quiet stretch. Bryson DeChambeau, who used to be grouped in that same top tier, has dropped further down the odds list following two missed cuts at majors earlier in the year.

J.J. Spaun is back too as the defending champion, having won last year's tournament at Oakmont with a 64-foot putt on the very last hole, though his form through 2026 hasn't really matched that high point. Somewhere further down the field, Adam Scott is making his 100th straight start in a major championship, which doesn't grab headlines the same way a trophy does but says plenty about lasting in this sport.

Sportscapefeels that Grand Slam chases have a way of sounding like foregone conclusions once a player gets this close, but golf rarely cooperates with that kind of confidence, especially on a course nobody in the field has truly cracked yet. Scheffler is carrying the story into the week, but the players right behind him haven't given anyone a reason to assume the outcome is settled.