Adam Scott is set to play his 100th consecutive major championship at June’s US Open, extending one of golf’s longest active streaks after officials confirmed 35 exemptions into the field on Monday. Scott, who was ranked 49th in the world on Monday, reached the 100th career major and 99th in a row at last week’s PGA Championship, leaving only the US Open between him and a century of straight starts.
The run began at the 2001 Open Championship and has survived more than two decades, including Scott’s 2013 Masters triumph. It now places him in the same conversation as Jack Nicklaus, who played 146 consecutive majors from the 1962 Masters through the 1998 US Open. Scott’s streak has not been built on one prolonged peak so much as a steady ability to stay inside the game’s top tier long enough to keep showing up, year after year.
Monday’s exemptions reshaped the June field in more than one direction. Twenty-four of the 35 exemptions came through the top-60 world ranking cutoff, and Scott’s ranking kept him comfortably in line for another start. Jordan Spieth, who ended 2025 ranked 80th in the world before climbing to 47th, was among the players whose movement helped alter the shape of the list, while Patrick Reed rose to 21st in the world through his success on the DP World Tour since leaving LIV Golf and is set to make his 12th straight US Open start.
There were also fresh openings for players with smaller footprints on the championship stage. Kristoffer Reitan will play his first US Open as a professional at Shinnecock Hills in Southampton, New York, the same course where he qualified for the 2018 US Open as an amateur. Alex Smalley climbed 36 spots in the rankings after sharing second at the PGA Championship and will make his second US Open start, following his first at Erin Hills in 2017. Aaron Rai, meanwhile, received a five-year exemption into the US Open after winning his first major on Sunday.
That mix of familiar names, rising results and direct exemptions leaves Scott’s coming start carrying extra weight. He is not only chasing another ordinary major appearance. He is entering the US Open with a streak that has already outlasted generations of players and now stands one start away from becoming a 100th straight marker in a career defined by durability as much as by the Masters title he won in 2013.
