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NBC Sports
10 hours ago
- Sport
- NBC Sports
Bay Area's Kailer Stone shares U.S. Junior lead; Charlie Woods fails to break 80
Kailer Stone has won back-to-back NCGA Junior Championships, including earlier this month at Lake Merced in San Francisco. The 17-year-old from Alameda, California, is hoping to return to the Bay Area next month for the U.S. Amateur at Olympic Club as the champion of another prestigious junior championship. Stone joined China's Qiyou Wu in shooting 5-under 66, the leading score in Monday's opening round of stroke play at the 77th U.S. Junior Amateur in Dallas. Stone, a Pepperdine commit, carded five birdies and no bogeys at Trinity Forest, which played over two shots tougher than its companion course, Brook Hollow. Mason Howell, the Georgia commit who qualified for the U.S. Open earlier this summer, had the best score at Brook Hollow, a 3-under 67, along with fellow Georgia native Trace Carter. Top-ranked junior Miles Russell shot 67 at Trinity Forest while defending U.S. Junior champion Trevor Gutschewski posted 68 at the former home of the PGA Tour's Byron Nelson event. The player Gutschewski beat in the final last July at Oakland Hills, Tennessee commit Tyler Watts, also shot 68 at Trinity Forest. Other notables currently inside the match-play cutline include reigning U.S. Amateur Four-Ball champion and Vanderbilt commit Tyler Mawhinney (68-TF), North Carolina sophomore and Ukraine's Misha Golod (69-TF), Auburn signee Logan Reilly (71-TF), Vanderbilt commit Luke Colton (71-TF), Clemson signee Jackson Byrd (71-TF), Vanderbilt signee Michael Riebe (71-BH), Oklahoma State signee Henry Guan (71-BH) and Daniil Sokolov (71-TF), who is the first player from Qatar to play in a USGA championship. Among those outside the cut line at the midway point of stroke-play qualifying are Cameron Kuchar (74-TF) and Charlie Woods (81-BH). Both of their dads, Matt and Tiger, were out watching their sons' rounds on Monday. Woods, who missed the cut in last year's U.S. Junior debut, carded birdies on Nos. 18 and 9, but he also had four double bogeys, including three on the back nine, his opening side. He is currently T-242 out of 264 players and nine shots out of what would be a 30-for-8 playoff to get into the Round of 64.
Yahoo
15-07-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Alabama golfer Nick Gross qualifies for 2025 U.S. Amateur Championship
An Alabama golfer is headed to one of the most prestigious events at his level of the sport. Crimson Tide rising sophomore Nick Gross qualified for the 2025 U.S. Amateur Championship after firing a bogey-free 68 on July 14, the university announced Monday. Advertisement The tournament will be held from August 11-17 at The Olympic Club in San Francisco. REQUIRED READING: Alabama football's best, most promising, most underrated players and more for 2025 | Goodbread The winner of the U.S. Amateur earns, among other things, exemptions to compete in the Masters, U.S. Open and the Open Championship, provided they retain their amateur status. A Downingtown, Pennsylvania native, Gross was the No. 1 ranked player in his class in the World Amateur Golf Rankings. As a freshman, he was one of five Alabama golfers to be named to the starting lineup of every event in which the Tide competed last fall. Advertisement This article originally appeared on The Tuscaloosa News: Alabama Crimson Tide golfer Nick Gross qualifies for US Amateur
USA Today
21-06-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Oklahoma State's Ethan Fang wins 2025 British Amateur, punches ticket to 3 majors
The moment Ethan Fang made history at The 130th Amateur Championship 🏆 Ethan Fang has added a couple significant trophies to his resume over the last month. The rising junior at Oklahoma State won the 130th British Amateur Championship on Saturday, beating East Tennessee State sophomore Gavin Tiernan 1 up with a clutch birdie on the 36th hole at Royal St. George's. Fang became the first American to win the Amateur since Drew Weaver in 2007, and he's the first Oklahoma State player since Bob Dickson to win the Amateur. Dickson was also the last player to win both the British Amateur and U.S. Amateur in the same year. Fang will have the opportunity to do so in August at Olympic Club in San Francisco. 'It feels great. Still doesn't feel real yet. But I'm sure it'll kick in, and I'll celebrate with my team," Fang said. 'I was hitting it well all day, and I knew if I just stayed in it, some putts would drop, kind of have him work for it, and it ended up working out." With the win, Fang gets an exemption into the 153rd Open at Royal Portrush next month as well as the 2026 Masters and U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills. In addition to the three majors, he earned a spot in the DP World Tour's Betfred British Masters. Fang led 2 up with three holes to play before Tiernan buried consecutive birdie putts to tie the match heading into the 36th hole. That's when Fang, hitting his approach shot first, floated an iron to the front part of the green and watched as it released to about 5 feet left of the flag. Tiernan's approach found the far side of the green, and he nearly jarred the birdie look, but when he didn't make it, Fang bounced back and clinched the match, becoming the 22nd American to win the British Am. Another important milestone for Fang is that he has virtually locked up his spot on the U.S. Walker Cup team, as if there was any doubt for the No. 7 amateur in the world. Last month, he went 2-1 in match play to help the Cowboys win their 12th national championship in school history. Now he has one of the biggest amateur events in the world, and by summer's end will join Jackson Koivun, Ben James and Michael La Sasso donning the red, white and blue at Cypress Point in September.
USA Today
12-06-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Watch: Patrick Reed holes out for albatross, only fourth in history of U.S. Open
Watch: Patrick Reed holes out for albatross, only fourth in history of U.S. Open 🚨 ALBATROSS ALERT 🚨@PReedGolf with a 2 on a par 5, just the 4th in U.S. Open history! — U.S. Open (@usopengolf) June 12, 2025 Patrick Reed did something Thursday that only three others have ever done in the history of the U.S. Open. Playing his fourth hole during the opening round of the 2025 U.S. Open at Oakmont Country Club, Reed hit a 3-wood from 286 yards on the par-5 second hole. His ball landed at the front of the green and took a couple of hops before releasing, and it never left the cup. The ball rolled into the hole, and voila, it was an albatross for Reed. The other three golfers to accomplish the feat are Nick Watney at Olympic Club in 2012, Shaun Micheel at Pebble Beach in 2010 and T.C. Chen at Oakland Hills in 1985. The big bird moved Reed from 1 over to 2 under in the first round and to T-5 on the leaderboard.
The Irish Sun
03-06-2025
- General
- The Irish Sun
Padraig Harrington narrowly misses out on US Open qualification – but hope remains for another Irish ace
PADRAIG Harrington fell just one shot short of a playoff place for US Open qualification. Harrington arrived straight from the Principality Charity Classic to Kinsale Golf Club in Columbus, Ohio, for a US Open qualifier. 2 Heartbreak for Padraig Harrington in the US Open qualifiers 2 Graeme McDowell won his sole major at the US Open in 2010 Credit: PA He came tied 38th in the Principality Charity Classic on six under just a week after finishing With only six available qualifying places up for grabs for the 66 entrants, Harrington's qualification chances seemed dead and buried after his two-over par 74 in his first 18 holes. But the Dublin native managed to turn it around with a sensational first nine of his second round. Harrington produced back to back birdies on the third and fourth followed by three in a row on the seventh, eighth and ninth. Read more on golf The three-time major winner found himself in a play-off position following a birdie on the eleventh. However, a bogie on the 17th hole would prove costly as he slipped out of the qualification race. A birdie on the last hole wasn't enough for the 53-year-old as he missed out on the top six by just one shot. The Irish golfer has not qualified for the US Open since 2023, where he finished tied 27th. Most read in Golf He qualified through his US Senior Open victory the year before, not having to play in a qualifier. His all-time best finish in the competition was back in 2012 at at Olympic Club where he finished tied fourth. Heart-stopping new footage emerges of Jordan Spieth 'almost ending a fan's life' as golf shot goes badly wrong There was a playoff for the final qualification spot with five golfers finishing on five under in tied sixth. Chase Johnson, Eric Cole, Max Homa and Rickie Fowler lost out to Cameron Young in the five for one playoff as Young made a birdie on the first playoff hole. Erik van Rooyen, (13 under) Bud Cauley, (7 under) Lanto Griffin, (7 under) Justin Lower (7 under) and Harrison Ott (6 under) joined playoff winner Young in US Open qualification. Seamus Power also failed to qualify for the US Open, as the Waterford golfer withdrew after a two-over par opening round of 72 at Lambton Country Club in Canada. Tom McKibbin, Seán Quinlivan and amateur Patrick Keeling also failed to qualify for the prestigious tournament across some of the other nine qualifiers. A weather delay caused the competition to be delayed until today with McDowell ten shots into his second round. He is just three shots short of the top four qualification spots with eight holes to go.
