Bamford’s long-shot flyer is Harris English at 66/1 with 10-place each-way terms. English owns a 71.81 career U.S. Open scoring average—better than Spieth, Thomas, Lowry and Hatton—and has finished 4th (Winged Foot 2020), 3rd (Torrey 2021) and 8th (LACC 2023). He was also T37 at Oakmont in 2016. The four-time Tour winner arrives after a back-door T2 at the PGA Championship, satisfying Bamford’s top-8 PGA trend. His January victory at Torrey Pines showed comfort on Poa greens, and correlating form includes 1st Kapalua, 7th Riviera, 1st TPC River Highlands and 2nd TPC Boston—courses that have produced Oakmont champions Cabrera, Johnson and Furyk. Statistically English sits top-45 Driving Accuracy, top-40 Bogey Avoidance, top-30 Scrambling >30 yards, and top-20 Three-Putt Avoidance this season; he also ranked 6th Total Driving and 5th Ball-Striking at the Memorial. Bamford concluded that English’s consistent major record plus tidy short game make him “the type who sneaks onto a U.S. Open leaderboard when everyone else is bleeding shots."