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Both Bubba Watson and Rickie Fowler failed the sectional qualifying rounds in Columbus, Ohio for the 2010 US Open today, bummer for sure

Rickie shot a 70-73-143 wtf?

Bubba shot a 71-69-140 with his first ever (Hole-n-one)

Just goes to show how tough it truly is to qualify for this event


http://usga.usopen.com/2010/qualifying/columbus.html

http://twitter.com/bubbawatson

http://twitter.com/RickieFowlerPGA


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Fowler qualified in 2008 and had a great first round IIRC.

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  motteler621 said:
wow that is hard to qualitfy for. Justin Rose didnt qualitfy either and he just won that event sunday.

Yeah and he is now 33 in the WR so should get automatic qualification

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He didn't qualify

You are correct:

Got into field as first alternate from Columbus, Ohio, sectional when 2003 PGA Championship winner Shaun Micheel withdrew; Fowler was the last man out of an 11-man playoff

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  Ash1974 said:
Yeah and he is now 33 in the WR so should get automatic qualification

The cutoff date for being in the top 50 was May 24.

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Justin Rose is one spot below Fowler in the world ranking, and he won't be playing at Pebble Beach unless he wins this week in Memphis.

The British Open resolves the dilemma of a non-exempt, non-qualifier who goes on a hot streak immediately before the tournament by reserving entries for the highest-finishing players not yet in the field at the PGA and European Tour events held after the cut-off date for the other exemption criteria. Perhaps the USGA should institute a similar policy for its premier event.

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Justin Rose is one spot below Fowler in the world ranking, and he won't be playing at Pebble Beach unless he wins this week in Memphis.

He's not in the field for Memphis.

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  RemyM said:
He's not in the field for Memphis.

Then he definitely won't be in the field next week.

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And to boot, the USGA gave a special exemption to Vijay because he did not make the top 50 on the 24th and didnt attempt to qualify. Hopefully Rose, Fowler and Watson will get one of those as well. Fowler draws more viewers than Vijay!

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  Bigtank said:
And to boot, the USGA gave a special exemption to Vijay because he did not make the top 50 on the 24th and didnt attempt to qualify. Hopefully Rose, Fowler and Watson will get one of those as well. Fowler draws more viewers than Vijay!

Those are two different things, Vijay has one of his last chances to play in the US Open at a good level while Fowler still has almost 30 years to try


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  andef said:
Those are two different things, Vijay has one of his last chances to play in the US Open at a good level while Fowler still has almost 30 years to try

Some of the thinking was Vijay played a few tournaments with an injury and he missed cuts as a result. If he had just sat out those tournaments, his ranking wouldn't have slipped as much. Or that is what the talking heads said on TGC the other night.

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  MSDOGS1976 said:
Some of the thinking was Vijay played a few tournaments with an injury and he missed cuts as a result. If he had just sat out those tournaments, his ranking wouldn't have slipped as much. Or that is what the talking heads said on TGC the other night.

I think both played a little part into vijay getting the exemption but there's a good chance this will be vijay's last US open. I think the amount of events he plays and the amount of practicing he does finally caught up with him. He's only got a couple years before the champions tour and I'm betting he has some success there.

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  motteler621 said:
geez what do you have to shoot to qualify?

I believe the cutoff was somewhere around 136-137.

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  Bigtank said:
And to boot, the USGA gave a special exemption to Vijay because he did not make the top 50 on the 24th and didnt attempt to qualify. Hopefully Rose, Fowler and Watson will get one of those as well. Fowler draws more viewers than Vijay!

Special exemptions shouldn't exist.

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Make everyone other than the last 5 years of Major Champs and the Automatic Amatuers qualify....it would change things

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