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re: 14 year old in US Open

Posted on 6/12/12 at 9:56 am to
Posted by Govt Tide
Member since Nov 2009
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Posted on 6/12/12 at 9:56 am to
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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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