Monday Musings U.S. Open Qualifying Edition The Good, the Bad and the Ugly from this week's Final Qualifying for the U.S. Open Welcome to my weekly column rounding up the action at qualifiers around the golf world. The Good Sectional (now called final) qualifying is the best day of the year for a golf nerd like me. The chance for an everyday Joe to play in one of the biggest events in our sport is pretty damn cool. There is nothing like it in sports. I was in Springfield, Ohio, so it makes sense to start there. Carson Schaake is what the U.S. Open is all about: a very good college player (at Iowa) who has had some success on the mini-tours but hasn’t broken through on the big stage. That is until he shot a second-round 65, earning medalist honor by two strokes. Shaake said he wasn’t that surprised to get through, adding he has been playing the best golf of his life of late. Before the local qualifying this year, he had never taken a pushcart. He took one there, shot 64, and did the same at final qualifying. The pushcart mafia has a new member.
Sectional Qualifying
Sectional Qualifying
Sectional Qualifying
Monday Musings U.S. Open Qualifying Edition The Good, the Bad and the Ugly from this week's Final Qualifying for the U.S. Open Welcome to my weekly column rounding up the action at qualifiers around the golf world. The Good Sectional (now called final) qualifying is the best day of the year for a golf nerd like me. The chance for an everyday Joe to play in one of the biggest events in our sport is pretty damn cool. There is nothing like it in sports. I was in Springfield, Ohio, so it makes sense to start there. Carson Schaake is what the U.S. Open is all about: a very good college player (at Iowa) who has had some success on the mini-tours but hasn’t broken through on the big stage. That is until he shot a second-round 65, earning medalist honor by two strokes. Shaake said he wasn’t that surprised to get through, adding he has been playing the best golf of his life of late. Before the local qualifying this year, he had never taken a pushcart. He took one there, shot 64, and did the same at final qualifying. The pushcart mafia has a new member.