Courtesy of Bethune-Cookman Athletics
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Former HBCU Males’s Golf star Willie Mack III from Bethune-Cookman College has certified for the 124th U.S. Open at Pinehurst No. 2, scheduled to happen June 13-16 in Pinehurst, North Carolina.
Willie Mack certified for the 124th version of the U.S. Open by profitable a three-man playoff in a USGA qualifier in Jupiter, Florida. He would end fifth on the ultimate leaderboard at The Bear’s Membership (June 3), delivering a 141 complete scorecard throughout two rounds. Within the playoff, Mack turned away Brendan Valdes and Thomas Ponder, respectively, incomes his first-ever qualification to a significant occasion.
“I really feel excited and able to get on the market and see what I can do,” commented Mack when talking with NBC Sports activities on Golf’s Longest Day. “To have the ability to preserve plugging alongside and get to the U.S. Open is thrilling.”
For Mack, the U.S. Open is about to mark the eighth official PGA Tour occasion of his profession, and – as beforehand said, his first-ever main.
Willie Mack III performed his collegiate golf at Daytona Seashore, FL HBCU Bethune-Cookman from 2008-11, the place he was recruited by and performed his first two seasons underneath BCU Corridor of Fame coach Dr. Gary Freeman, arriving to the Wildcats from Flint, Michigan. Mack was some of the extremely rated males’s golf recruits for the Wildcats in HBCU historical past, adopted three years later by the incoming of Ryan and Leon Fricker, with the Ivybridge, England, brothers taking part in underneath then-head coach Loritz “Scooter” Clark, now Director of Golf at North Carolina A&T.
Previous to his arrival to Bethune-Cookman, Mack had additionally recorded earlier “firsts” in his profession, together with turning into the first-ever African-American to win the Michigan Newbie Championship in June 2011.
“I gained a match a few weeks in the past in a six-man playoff after a birdie on the primary two holes and gained,” continued Mack when chatting with NBC Sports activities. “I had just a little momentum coming into this match, an expertise with a playoff, however there are some nice gamers out right here. Simply to have the ability to get that accomplished supplies me with lots of confidence proper now. Hopefully, I can preserve that going and play effectively [next week].”
Stay protection of the U.S. Open at Pinehurst shall be obtainable by means of NBC Sports activities and Peacock. Followers can watch teams and holes on USOpen.com, with Peacock and NBCSports.com carrying the TV broadcasts.
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