Golf's Longest Day Is Here, A Quick Guide

In the old days of this blog I used to do some heavy Golf’s Longest Day lifting when the USGA did not. (I’ll still will never forget seeing 500,000 page views in one day all because golf sites didn’t care). Mercifully the ultimate display of democratic golf offering to fill out next week’s U.S. Open field will be covered in a few places sites.

For a while the USGA sent writers and photographers to venues, we’ll see if that happens this year at their dedicated page currently featuring just scoring links.

Golfweek has this dedicated page with preview of each site and promises of reports from writers as the day goes.

And as detailed in last week’s Quadrilateral, Golf Channel is back with all day coverage until midnight ET.

The final qualifying storylines, as compiled by the USGA.

Early on it seems cicadas are an issue at the Woodmont qualifier:

As if the golf isn't pressure enough, competitors at Woodmont hoping to qualify for @usopengolf will also face:

▶️ 90 degree heat 🥵
▶️ Cicadas making noise at jet-engine levels 😳 pic.twitter.com/Mz4oB7fZwI

— Golf Channel (@GolfChannel) June 7, 2021