Sweden's Peter Hanson holed in one to grab his place in in next month’s US Open but Irish hopefuls Gareth Maybin, Paul McGinley, Gary Murphy and Michael Hoey all failed to qualify at Walton Heath.

Ulsterman Maybin finished with four birdies in his last six holes for a 69 on the Old Course but could not undo the damage of a 73 on the New and finished three strokes outside the qualifying mark on two-under par.

Maybin said: “Tee to green is was just ugly this morning but it was nice to finish with a few birdies. This is the first time I've played Walton Heath and what a gem. I just wished we played courses like this regularly on the European Tour.”

Without a major start since the 2007 US PGA, McGinley shot rounds of 74 and 68 to miss out on 142 as Hoey shot 75-70 and Murphy 74-71 to finish well down the 75-man field on 145.

Padraig Harrington, Graeme McDowell, Rory McIlroy and Darren Clarke have already qualified to tee it up at fearsome Bethpage Black from June 18-21.

They will be joined by Raphael Jacquelin and Simon Khan, who topped the sectional qualifiers in Surrey by a shot from Simon Dyson on nine-under 135.

Thomas Levet,  Andrew McLardy and David Horsey also booked their places with Jose Manuel Lara, Francesco Molinari, Jean Francois Lucquin, Johan Edfors and Peter Hanson coming through a seven-man play-off for the last five spots.

Lara, Molinari, Lucquin and Edfors all birdied the first extra hole before Hanson aced the 206-yard 17th hole on the Old Course as he battled England's Richard Bland and Scot Stephen Gallacher for the last of 11 qualifying places.

Hanson said: "I was pumped up so switched from a five iron to a six and knew I had to hit it really well to land it on the front of the green. It was just a perfect shot.

"This game is just so stupid sometimes.

"Obviously I am delighted to get through, but to do it like that is unbelievable. We were between clubs on the tee but I thought that I would go for a full 6-iron and play for the middle of the green. You need a bit of luck with any hole in one and I got my share today."

Ironically, Hanson and Molinari were protagonists in the Irish Open two weeks ago.

Hanson had a hole in one there too but made a mistake when filling out Molinari's second round scorecard, which ended with the Italian being disqualified for signing for a wrong score.

The Turin native led the tournament after the first round and was hoping to climb into the world's top 50 to avoid pre-qualifying for Bethpage. 

 

Player	Country	Score
Raphael Jacquelin	France	67-68-135
Simon Khan	England	68-67-135
Simon Dyson	England	66-70-136
Thomas Levet	France	70-67-137
Andrew McLardy	South Africa	71-67-138
David Horsey	England	72-66-138
Jose Manuel Lara	Spain	72-67-139
Jean-Francois Lucquin	France	68-71-139
Francesco Molinari	Italy	71-68-139
Johan Edfors	Sweden	73-66-139
Peter Hanson	Sweden	71-68-139
Failed To Qualify
A - Richard Bland	England	68-71-139
A - Stephen Gallacher	England	70-69-139
Markus Brier	Austria	70-70-140
Nick Dougherty	England	71-69-140
Brett Rumford	Australia	69-71-140
Alastair Forsyth	Scotland	71-70-141
Simon Griffiths	England	72-69-141
Wade Ormsby	Australia	74-67-141
Richard Ramsay	Scotland	71-70-141
Oliver Fisher	England	71-71-142
Jean-Baptiste Gonnet	France	72-70-142
Gareth Maybin	Northern Irelan	73-69-142
Paul McGinley	England	74-68-142
Phillip Archer	England	74-69-143
Gregory Bourdy	France	72-71-143
Jamie Donaldson	Wales	73-70-143
Marcus Fraser	Australia	71-72-143
Peter Hedblom	Sweden	72-71-143
(a) Sam Hutsby	England	69-74-143
Daniel Vancsik	Argentina	70-73-143
Christopher Wood	England	73-70-143
Francois Delamontagne	France	72-72-144
Richard Finch	England	72-72-144
Miguel Angel Rodriguez	Argentina	71-73-144
Scott Strange	Australia	71-73-144
Paul Waring	England	72-72-144
Felipe Aguilar	Chile	69-76-145
Robert Dinwiddie	England	74-71-145
Niclas Fasth	Sweden	75-70-145
Gregory Havret	France	74-71-145
Michael Hoey	Northern Irelan	75-70-145
Gary Murphy	Ireland	74-71-145
Alvaro Velasco	Spain	74-71-145
Mads Vibe-Hastrup	Denmark	70-75-145
Ross McGowan	England	72-74-146
Tongoona Charamba	Zimbabwe	75-72-147
Mikko Ilonen	Finland	74-73-147
Christian Nilsson	Sweden	69-78-147
Jyoti Randhawa	India	75-72-147
Shiv Kapur	India	72-76-148
Rafael Cabrera-Bello	Spain	71-78-149
Jeppe Huldahl	Denmark	74-75-149
Michael Lorenzo Vera	England	76-73-149
Steve Webster	England	76-73-149
Benn Barham	England	73-77-150
Alan McLean	Canada	76-74-150
Marc Cayeux	Zimbabwe	74-77-151
Anthony Kang	Anthem, Ariz.	77-74-151
Pablo Martin Benavides	Spain	74-77-151
Merrick Bremner	South Africa	73-80-153
Magnus A Carlsson	Sweden	78-76-154
David Howell	England	78-76-154
Ricardo Gonzalez	Argentina	71-WD
Estanislao Goya	Argentina	75-WD
Alejandro Canizares	Spain	76-WD
Marcel Siem	Germany	76-WD
Rafa Echenique	Argentina	77-WD
Pablo Larrazabal	Spain	77-WD
Per Edberg	Sweden	78-WD
Tyrone Ferreira	South Africa	80-WD
Kenneth Ferrie	England	81-WD