Seven of LIV Golf’s 13 players missed the cut at the 2026 U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills, including its biggest stars.
Jon Rahm shot a 78 on Friday to finish six over par and miss the weekend. Bryson DeChambeau, the 2024 U.S. Open champion, posted a five-over 75 in Round 2 and finished at five over. It marks DeChambeau’s third consecutive missed cut at a major in 2026.
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Also missing the cut: Cameron Smith, Lucas Herbert, Carlos Ortiz, David Puig, and Graeme McDowell. The cut settled at four over par.
Of the six LIV players who made the weekend, Dustin Johnson and Tyrrell Hatton are currently highest on the leaderboard at T36, four over par. Joaquin Niemann and Laurie Canter are T40 at five over. Caleb Surratt is T62 at nine over and Peter Uihlein sits 70th at 14 over.
“It bothers me more because I genuinely don’t feel like I played badly,” Rahm told Ten Golf. “I don’t feel like I did as badly as the final score suggests. Because if you had told me on the fifth hole, after hitting the shot I hit, that I was going to finish at eight over, honestly I wouldn’t have believed it.”
“To be honest, missed cuts are gonna happen,” DeChambeau said. “I might miss all four of them in majors this year. That’s just golf. Like, I’m playing great. I just haven’t shown up when it mattered most.”
The results come at a precarious moment for the league. Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund announced in April it would stop funding LIV Golf operations after the 2026 season. PIF has spent more than $6 billion on the league since its founding in 2022.
LIV CEO Scott O’Neil is now attempting to raise between $250 million and $350 million from outside investors to keep the league operating beyond this season. The league has hired investment bank Ducera Partners to lead the capital raise.
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“The clock’s obviously ticking,” O’Neil said on CNBC’s Halftime Report on June 9. “While we have incredible business momentum, what we don’t have is a lot of time. So we’re very urgently out there, talking to those who are interested. We like the pool, but you know, we have to get this done through the summer.”
Per Bloomberg, LIV has also begun laying groundwork for a potential Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing in the U.S. should the fundraising effort fall short. The league has four events remaining on its 2026 schedule.
Since the first major of the LIV era in 2022, a LIV player has finished inside the top 10 at every major except two. Rahm finished T-2 at the PGA Championship earlier this year and Hatton finished T-3 at the Masters.
Wyndham Clark takes a four-shot lead into the final round on Sunday.
