Golf’s Longest Day, the national championships qualification process, on Monday, June 3, saw eight LIV golfers attempt to qualify for the U.S. Open 2024. However, only one of the eight Saudi-backed golfers survived. Dean Burmester, the lone survivor, has now come out to state that “endurance” played a big role in LIV players’ failure in qualification.
After successfully entering the major’s roster from Bear’s Club, Burmester stated that LIV golfers “don’t play 36 holes in a day very often.” He said the qualifying required a lot of endurance. He further sounded off on the host course and dubbed it “bouncy and firm.
”The 35-year-old South African said it required “patience” to make it through the major’s qualifying process. He dubbed it a “big test.”Speaking after the U.S. Open final qualification at Bear’s Club on Monday, Dean Burmester was quoted as saying by the Palm Beach Post:
“We (LIV golfers) don’t play 36 holes in a day very often, so there’s a lot of endurance to it and then around a golf course like this where it’s bouncy, it’s firm, it’s just about patience and staying out there. It was a big test and I’m glad I made it through.”
The U.S. Open 2024 qualification had 687 golfers competing across 10 qualifying sites. A total of 19 LIV golfers attempted qualification to the major.
However, only three players made it through to the competition at Pinehurst. Burmester qualified alongside Eugenio Chacarra and David Puig.
While Mito Pereira withdrew from the qualifying citing personal reasons, players like Charl Schwartzel, Peter Uihlein, and Branden Grace crashed out of the competition before its finish. Big names like Joaquin Niemann, Patrick Reed and Sergio Garcia also failed to make the 2024 U.S. Open’s final field.
