Up to date: Might 15, 2024 06:53 PM
Nick Jones (File {photograph} by Blaire Simmons)
Skilled golfers Nick Jones, Camiko Smith and Dwayne Pearman should wait at the least one other 12 months to attain their objective of competing within the US Open and US Senior Open Championships.
Jones tried unsuccessfully to qualify for subsequent month’s a hundred and twenty fifth US Open Championship as an eight-over 79 left him nicely shy of the reduce at a current qualifier on the Fairmont Nation Membership in New Jersey.
“I didn’t get to play a observe spherical and was in place on the primary gap to make a simple birdie however didn’t know there was some hassle past the pin and I bought just a little aggressive with it and ended up making a double bogey,” he instructed The Royal Gazette.
“With the US Open qualifiers being 18 holes it’s arduous to come back again from a double bogey on the primary, however I’m nonetheless plugging away.”
Smith additionally got here up wanting his goal after carding a nine-over 79 at one other current US Open qualifier at Whippoorwill Membership in New York.
There was additionally disappointment for the evergreen Dwayne Pearman, who didn’t clinch a spot in subsequent month’s forty fourth US Senior Open Championship after taking pictures a five-over 77 in a qualifier at Cherokee City & Nation Membership in Atlanta.
“I do know I might have executed higher,” stated Pearman, who competed within the inaugural Butterfield Bermuda Championship in 2019.
“I drove it good and putted good, however wasn’t too pleased with some method photographs. I missed a number of on the brief facet and with greens so quick it’s arduous to stand up and down.”
Jones was again in motion on Wednesday as he was among the many teams that teed off on the again 9 within the afternoon within the opening spherical of the nineteenth Metropolitan Open Championship on the Nation Membership of St Albans in Missouri.