Mike Smith UL Graduate and Lafayette native qualifies for US Open

[BGlass29]

http://www.ghintpp.com/TXGA/TPPOnlin...ts.aspx?id=362


igeaux.mobi

[ZV10]

Nice find Mr Glass

Congrats to Mike!

igeaux.mobi

[Boomer]

_ http://www.ghintpp.com/TXGA/TPPOnlin...ts.aspx?id=362


igeaux.mobi _

What does this mean???? Notice all the Texas and 3-4 La guys not qualifying---When and where is this tournament??? I know nothing about golf but my S-I-L and daughter run/work at the Puerto Rican Open and some of their guys play in the biggies!!!

[BGlass29]

What does this mean???? Notice all the Texas and 3-4 La guys not qualifying---When and where is this tournament??? I know nothing about golf but my S-I-L and daughter run/work at the Puerto Rican Open and some of their guys play in the biggies!!!

Haha. Fathers day weekend. Possibly the biggest golf tourney of the year and it's the only golf tournament open to anyone. Next to impossible to qualify unless you already play on the tour. 112 qualifying tournaments that narrow the field down to 12 or thirteen more tournaments that narrow the entire us open field of 156. But many of those 156 already had automatic qualifiers so that only leaves a handful of spots. One of which Mike qualified for.




igeaux.mobi

[BGlass29]

There are usually 70+ entries to every qualifying tournament.


igeaux.mobi

[BGlass29]

http://golf.about.com/od/majorchampi...nqualifier.htm
How to qualify
igeaux.mobi

[Boomer]

_ http://golf.about.com/od/majorchampi...nqualifier.htm
How to qualify
igeaux.mobi _

Did this guy play at UL and is he a pro???? I need to see if my S-I-L knows him------Thanks for the tutoring!!!

[BGlass29]

Did this guy play at UL and is he a pro???? I need to see if my S-I-L knows him------Thanks for the tutoring!!!

Sure did.

http://www.ragincajuns.com/ViewArtic...&ATCLID=858850


igeaux.mobi

[sportsfanatic21]

_ Haha. Fathers day weekend. Possibly the biggest golf tourney of the year and it's the only golf tournament open to anyone. Next to impossible to qualify unless you already play on the tour. 112 qualifying tournaments that narrow the field down to 12 or thirteen more tournaments that narrow the entire us open field of 156. But many of those 156 already had automatic qualifiers so that only leaves a handful of spots. One of which Mike qualified for.
igeaux.mobi _

That's very impressive, and made even more impressive if you look at the list of players he beat to earn the qualification. The 3 other qualifiers include a major championship winner (Hamilton-British Open), a guy who owns a 4th place finish in a major (Chalmers-PGA Championship), and Frazar, who had a top 20 finish in the 2006 PGA Championship.

Also, those who did not qualify include British Open champ and Ryder Cup hero Justin Leonard, Tom Kite (while he's getting a little long in the tooth) had seven top 5 finishes in majors, including 4 runner-ups at the Masters, and a US Open victory, Bob May lost the PGA Championship in a playoff to Tiger Woods, and 2007 Masters Champion Zach Johnson.

I hadn't seen this until reading this post, but this is a tremendous accomplishment for Mike and UL, moreso than most people will realize. Great job Mike! And good luck in the US Open!!

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Former UL golfer Michael Smith shot a second round 6-under-par 64 on Monday to win the 2011 U.S. Open 36-hole Sectional Qualifier held at Dallas Athletic Club.

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Former University of Louisiana golfer Michael Smith shot a second round 6-under-par 64 on Monday to win the 2011 U.S. Open 36-hole Sectional Qualifier held at Dallas Athletic Club. Smith, a regular on the Adams Golf Tour, shot a first round 69 to finish at 7 ...

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I'd been playing relatively solid most of the year," Smith said. "I've missed only one cut all year "» unfortunately that was in Lafayette (at the Nationwide Tour's Chitimacha Louisiana Open), but overall I've been playing really solid golf." Solid was an ...

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