In the other qualifier in Columbus, Madalitson Muthiya of Zambia and Stephen Woodward earned the two spots at Double Eagle. Bill Haas, the 23-year-old son of Jay Haas, had played who U.S. Opens with his father but failed to qualify.

Poulter struggled at the Memorial, but shot 65-66 in the qualifier to get into his third U.S. Open. Hayes, a 23-year-old who played at Southern California and was medalist in the first stage of PGA Tour Q-school last year, will be making his U.S. Open debut.

“It was a big goal of mine,” Hayes said. “It’s very rewarding to play this way.”

Carl Pettersson was supposed to be at the qualifier until he won the Memorial, his second victory in the last 12 months, which earned him an exemption to Winged Foot. Others had to grind through a long day for that pleasure.

Austin also faced a long weekend in the rain-delayed Memorial, but still had enough left to earn a spot. He still plans to play this week in the Barclays Classic, but not without a short break.

“I can guarantee you there’ll be no shots hit tomorrow,” he said. “I guarantee you I am not even thinking of hitting a golf shot.”

Others who earned spots at Winged Foot include Charl Schwwartzel of South Africa, Steve Lowery, Skip Kendall, Dean Wilson, Craig Barlow and tour rookie Nathan Green of Australia. Duffy Waldorf made a 5-foot birdie in a playoff to get the last spot.

Other PGA Tour players who missed were Brad Faxon and two winners this year — Geoff Ogilvy (Match Play Championship) and Aaron Baddeley (Verizon Heritage). Jesper Parnevik, Trevor Immelman and Peter Lonard also failed to get to Winged Foot.

In Tadworth, England, Dutchman Maarten Lafeber beat the field by eight strokes with rounds of 64 and 66 on Monday to head European qualifying.

Lafeber’s 14-under 130 after rounds over the Old and New Courses at the Surrey Club south of London got him into the field for next week along with a trio who shot 6-under 138.

Former No. 1 U.S. collegiate player Graeme McDowell, shot 70-68. Jyoti Randhawa of India shot 71-67, and England’s Graeme Storm had two rounds of 69.

Richard Green and Jeev Milka Singh of India qualified at 5 under, while there was a five-man playoff for the final two of eight available places.

Oliver Wilson and Philip Archer of England qualified, while Danes Soren Kjelsen and Soren Hansen and English amateur veteran Gary Wolstenholme missed out.

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