Iowa
Six Hawkeyes to Compete at US Open Qualifiers
IOWA CITY, Iowa – Six present and former College of Iowa golfers are set to compete at US Open last qualifying occasions Monday. 9 36-hole tournaments tee off on Monday, June 6, to ascertain the sector for the 122nd U.S. Open later this month at The Nation Membership in Brookline, Massachusetts.
Present Hawkeyes Mac McClear and Garrett Tighe earned bids to the ultimate qualifying occasions with top-three finishes on the Blue High Ridge Golf Course native qualifier in Riverside, Iowa. McClear was the Co-Medalist on the occasion, tying Missouri’s Jack Lundin at three-under par (69). Tighe earned the ultimate qualifying spot with a two-under par spherical of 70.
McClear, who was the 2021 Huge Ten champion, earned PING All-Midwest honors this season for the second consecutive 12 months. McClear was additionally named second crew All-Huge Ten in 2022 after main the Hawkeyes with a 72.2 stroke common and 4 prime ten finishes.
Final outing, McClear positioned 14th at NCAA Regionals, the place he certified to compete individually. He’s set to compete at Springfield Nation Membership in Springfield, Ohio, the place he’ll tee off at 8:05 a.m. (CT) from gap No. 10.
Tighe competed in six tournaments for Iowa this season, most notably posting a career-best 18-hole spherical of 65 on the Hawkeye Invitational the place he completed runner-up with a 54-hole rating of 209 (-7).
Tighe will compete in Jupiter, Florida, at The Membership at Admiral’s Cove. He might be joined there by Iowa alumnus Gene Elliot, who received the 2021 US Senior Open Beginner to earn an exemption into Closing Qualifying.
Different former Hawkeyes competing at last qualifiers embody brothers Carson and Alex Schaake, in addition to 2021 graduate Benton Weinberg.
Carson Schaake is competing at Springfield Nation Membership the place is paired alongside PGA TOUR professionals Daniel Hudson and Ryan Brehm. That trio is about for a 7:45 a.m. (CT) begin from gap No. 10.
Alex Schaake, who’s the one Hawkeye golfer to be voted Huge Ten Participant of the Yr on two events (2019, 2021), will play at Kinsale Golf and Health Membership in Columbus, Ohio. He’s paired with Spanish skilled golfer Rafa Cabrera-Bello, in addition to Ricky Castillo of the College of Florida. They’ll tee off at 7:30 a.m. (CT).
Weinberg is about to compete at Woodmont Nation Membership in Rockville, Maryland, the place he’ll tee off at 7:15 a.m. (CT) from gap No. 1 alongside professionals Benjamin Griffin and Michael Salazar.