Matt Fitzpatrick won his first major championship, finishing the tournament with a score of 274, six-under-par, a shot ahead of Scottie Scheffler and Will Zalatoris.

Amateur at The Country Club, in 2013, and matched Jack Nicklaus, who won both at Pebble Beach, as the only players to win the U.S.

In early June 2022, several exempt players resigned or were suspended from the PGA Tour in order to compete in the LIV Golf Invitational Series, which held its inaugural event in England one week prior to the U.S. Open.

Winners of multiple PGA Tour events[f] from the 2021 U.S. Open to the start of the 2022 tournament 13.

The leading 60 players on the Official World Golf Ranking if not otherwise exempt as of June 6, 2022 20.

Special exemptions Eleven final qualifying events were held, nine of which were in the United States:[6] The following players gained a place in the field having finished as the leading alternates in the specified final qualifying events: Thursday, June 16, 2022 Adam Hadwin led after the opening day, after a four-under-par round of 66, which included six birdies.

[14] Source:[15] Friday, June 17, 2022 Joel Dahmen and Collin Morikawa led after the second round with scores of 135, 5-under-par.

[16] Source:[15] Saturday, June 18, 2022 Matt Fitzpatrick and Will Zalatoris led after the third round with scores of 206, 4 under par.

[17] Source:[15] Sunday, June 19, 2022 Beginning the round tied for the lead with Will Zalatoris, Matt Fitzpatrick went two-under-par on his front-nine to take a one-shot advantage into the final nine holes at six-under-par.

He bogeyed the 12th and the 15th, after failing to get up-and-down from a greenside bunker, and fell back to four-under-par, before hitting his tee shot on the par-three 16th hole to six feet and making the putt to get within one of Fitzpatick.

Zalatoris, on a nearly identical line to Fitzpatrick, had a 14-foot putt for birdie that would have forced a playoff but it narrowly slid past the left side of the hole.

Despite a birdie on the 17th, Scheffler finished at five-under-par, tied with Zalatoris and narrowly missing becoming only the seventh player to win both the Masters and U.S. Open in the same year.

[21] Hideki Matsuyama had a bogey-free round of 65, the lowest recorded during the week, to jump up to three-under-par and finished alone in fourth place.

Defending champion Jon Rahm began the round just a shot off the lead but made five bogeys and only one birdie in a four-over-par 74 to fall outside the top-10, finishing tied for 12th.