Shinnecock Hills Golf Club · June 2026

Start a U.S. Open
Pool

Run a golf pool for the U.S. Open. Set up your tiers, invite your group, and watch the leaderboard update live with projected prize money as players battle one of golf's toughest tests.

U.S. Open Leaderboard

Field announced ~1 week before the tournament. Live scoring goes live when play begins.

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Field announced ~1 week before the tournament tees off

How It Works

Set up a U.S. Open pool, invite your group, and you're ready to go.

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Create Your Pool

Pick U.S. Open as your tournament, set your tiers, and share an invite code. Your pool is ready in under a minute.

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Everyone Picks Golfers

Players draft golfers from each tier before U.S. Open tees off. Pick favorites, stack sleepers, strategy is everything.

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Watch the Leaderboard

Scores update live. See everyone's picks ranked by total projected prize money. The best team wins the pool.

Why Run a U.S. Open Pool on golfpools.co?

Live Scoring & Leaderboard

Follow every shot at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club. Your pool leaderboard updates automatically with projected prize money so you always know where you stand.

Tiered Draft System

Golfers are organized into balanced tiers so every entry has a fair shot. Pick one from each tier and build the best U.S. Open roster you can.

Invite Anyone in Seconds

Share an invite code with your group. No app download needed, everyone picks golfers and follows the leaderboard right from their phone or laptop.

Prize Money Scoring

Skip stroke-based math. Your team earns based on real projected prize money, the closer your golfers finish to the top, the more your team is worth.

About the Tournament

About U.S. Open

The U.S. Open is the toughest test in golf. Held each June and run by the USGA, it's designed to identify a true champion: narrow fairways, punishing rough, lightning-fast greens, and par considered a great score. The 2026 edition returns to Shinnecock Hills Golf Club on Long Island, one of the founding clubs of American golf and host of five previous U.S. Opens dating back to 1896.

The U.S. Open field is partly qualified. Any pro or amateur with a handicap of 0.4 or better can enter a qualifier, meaning every year a few unknown names make the cut alongside the world's best. Past champions include some of the most respected players in the game's history: Hogan, Nicklaus, Tiger, Rory. Winning the U.S. Open at Shinnecock is the kind of moment that defines a career.

Quick Facts

Course
Shinnecock Hills Golf Club
Location
Southampton, New York
Month
June 2026
Format
Stroke play, 4 rounds

Why You Should Host a U.S. Open Pool

The marquee week of the season is more fun when your friends are watching with you.

The Group Chat Lights Up

Every birdie, every collapse, every Sunday charge becomes a shared moment. U.S. Open week becomes the most active your text thread is all year.

Even Non-Golfers Get Hooked

Pick a couple names, suddenly you're invested. People who normally tune out golf end up watching the back nine because their picks are in contention.

Sunday Becomes an Event

U.S. Open Sunday goes from background TV to "you watching this?" texts every twenty minutes. Friendly stakes make every shot meaningful.

Five Minutes, No Spreadsheets

No formulas, no manual scoring, no chasing people for picks. Create a pool, share one link, watch the leaderboard update itself in real time.

The U.S. Open is where pools get interesting. Difficult course setups mean the favorites struggle more than usual, and the leaderboard shuffles every round, perfect for the kind of pool where one underdog pick can vault you up the standings on Sunday.

It's also the perfect Father's Day weekend tradition. The tournament wraps on Father's Day every year, which makes a Sunday pool a no-brainer for family group chats. Easy setup, free for everyone to join, and live scoring that turns a Sunday on the couch into a shared event with the people you'd normally text about it anyway.

Ready for
U.S. Open?

Set up your U.S. Open pool in under a minute. Invite your group and compete for bragging rights.