Lest we forget an HPU Panther ...
My apologies to Matthew Hammond, a junior at High Point U. who had Thursday's second-lowest score at the U.S. Open qualifier at Pinehurst National. My lack of familiarity with HPU golf was revealed, as I failed to mention Hammond, from Clayton, fired a 66 to make the sectional qualifier. Fortunately, colleague Robert Bell has a neighbor who knows of him and pointed out the oversight.
Same thing happened last week, when we overlooked Kernersville's Jonathan Hill advancing from the Wallace local qualifier. The problem, for those of us not accustomed to covering area golfers, is that the USGA lists current residence on its tee times/result sheets, leaving it to us to make the hometown and college connections.
A full list of qualifiers to sectionals can be found at the USGA site here. Former Wake player Ryan Gioffre and UNCG player Jason Martin also made the final, 36-hole stage of Open qualifying, which will be June 6-7.
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