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In all fairness to him and others who qualified for the open, you have to have very very serious skills and game to qualify at any of the sectional qualifying sites. He'll probably shoot in the 80s both days but he has to be a helluva even to get into the alternate pool.

This is 100% true. Last Saturday I played the course here in Memphis that they held the qualifier on. I shot 85. The low round here was 65 by Stephen Ames, who followed that with a 68 in rnd 2. My best friend plays to about a 1 handicap and could only muster a 76. You have to have some serious game to go low enough both days to qualify.

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Posted by Govt Tide

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Posted on 6/12/12 at 9:56 am to DovaVol

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This is 100% true. Last Saturday I played the course here in Memphis that they held the qualifier on. I shot 85. The low round here was 65 by Stephen Ames, who followed that with a 68 in rnd 2. My best friend plays to about a 1 handicap and could only muster a 76. You have to have some serious game to go low enough both days to qualify.

Bobby Wyatt who is a sophomore on Alabama's golf team followed up an opening round of 71 with a 67 in his second round and that was only good enough to get him into a 3 man playoff for the last remaining spot. That right there puts just how hard it is to qualify for a U.S. Open in perspective. Probably the single hardest thing to do in all of sports. Wyatt's teammate, Hunter Hamrick, had to win a local qualifier (like 4 spots available for about 70 golfers) just to make it to the Memphis qualifier. He shot 67 in both rounds at Memphis to qualify.

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