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Major championship season continues this week with the US Senior Open marking three consecutive weeks of majors across both the men’s and women’s games.
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Stewart Cink is bidding for an unprecedented third consecutive major victory at Scioto Country Club in Columbus, Ohio, after claiming both the Senior PGA Championship and Regions Tradition earlier this year.
Not since Jack Nicklaus in 1991 has a player won three consecutive senior majors, and there are 10 Australians and two New Zealanders in the field this week looking to deny Cink that opportunity.
Of those, Scott Hend [pictured] has been one of Cink’s closest challengers, making a superb start to his 2026 campaign.
He finished third at the Senior PGA and was then runner-up to Cink at the Regions Tradition before winning his first PGA Tour Champions title at the Trophee Hassan II in Morocco.
Eleven-time PGA Tour Champions winner Steven Alker will be looking to add to his 2022 Senior PGA victory, while 2005 US Open champion Michael Campbell will bid to become the ninth player to win both the US Open and US Senior Open.
Round 1 tee-times (AEST)
US Senior Open Championship
Scioto Country Club, Columbus, Ohio
9:15pm* – Brendan Jones
9:42pm – Mark Hensby
9:57pm* – Michael Wright
10:03pm – Scott Hend
10:08pm* – Richard Green
10:39pm* – Stuart Appleby
10:50pm* – Greg Chalmers
10:55pm – David Bransdon
3:06am* – Michael Campbell (NZ)
3:33am – Steven Alker (NZ)
3:54am – Steve Allan
4:20am* – Cameron Percy
Recent champion: Padraig Harrington
Past Australian winners: Graham Marsh (1997)
Prizemoney: $US4 million
