Clarke and McGinley to miss US Open

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And Clarke, who has not made a halfway cut since early February, made a sad admission afterwards.

"The current state of my game is not good for the US Open any way, so it is maybe not such a bad thing," said the Ulsterman after rounds of 75 and 72.

McGinley's two 71s were not sufficient either and having seen his world ranking slip to 138th the Dubliner commented: "I'm not scaling the heights. I never got hot at any stage."

A total of 52 players teed off for nine spots at Oakmont next week, but Clarke, himself now down to 94th in the world from 35th at the start of the year, was tied for 44th after his opening round and that left him far too much to do.

Jean Van de Velde and Miguel Angel Jimenez, Ryder Cup team-mates in 1999, were unsuccessful as well.

Early leaders in the clubhouse were Swede Peter Hanson and South African Darren Fichardt on eight under par, one better than Northern Ireland's Graeme McDowell, Australian Marcus Fraser and Argentina's Miguel Rodriguez.