Oakmont, Pennsylvania – the way the lip ball was accepted on the fifteenth hole and did not flow because of Bouji felt harshly. It was as if Oconton’s rural club was offering George Duangani each of his teeth on a day when he was his ghost.
Played in the first open United States, DuangManee did a fourth double ghost today on Long Par-4. Eleven with a previous hole, he had played Bengbong in the fourth green color and made a triple ghost to a shock of 47 in the ninth front.
At this level, the result near 40 over any nine holes is always the lack of eye. Almost one is like a single -century -like. However, this is what oakmont specializes in. Those who reach their doors in the hope of showing their games are often modest in the face of a golf course that was explicitly built to frustrate them. Among the four highest degrees from the US Open, which has been registered over the past twenty years, three of them have happened here.
But the beauty of the US Open, as the CEO of USGA Mike Whan tells you over and over, is his openness. Anyone can try to qualify and confuse the best in the world. 17 years old. dentist. A 23 -year -old child from Verfax, Virginia is chasing his professional golf dream.
Duangmanee became a professional in 2024 after graduating from UVA and first presented on the PGA tour in May 2025 in myristle Beach Classic in South Carolina. There, he connected two rounds under the level to make the pieces and will continue to finish 5 to the tournament.
For a player who has a conditional position only in the PGA TOURARICAS he obtained through the qualified school, there was another evidence that he belonged to him. But the United States is open? This was different.
“I feel this was the largest stage of the golf in which I played at all,” said Duangani.
DuangManee had played two rounds of his best life until she had a chance to walk on Ocont. At Springfield Country Club in Ohio on June 2, where many professionals tried and failed to qualify for the US Open Championship, Duangmanee released 68-67 punch.
It is impossible to better summarize this sport than that: the shooting 5 under the entry of the US Open, where 86 on Thursday and an opportunity to overcome 90 waiting the next day.
“I knew it would be a difficult test,” Duanjani said. “I didn’t think it would be so difficult.”
The exhausted Duangmanee seemed surprised when the USga official told him that some reporters wanted to talk to him. He had just struggled at the golf course for more than five hours and lost a ground collapse. But his outlook talked about something different.
“I am really positive in just being here and enthusiastic about the confidence that I can get from,” said Duangani. “It is a little frightening about the people you are watching on TV every week, but I am trying to learn what they are doing now, how they recover and everything. So I was watching how to do the best in the world, so I will use this move forward.”
Between the holes in the ninth back, Duangmanee allowed itself to breathe. Exchanging conversation with Austin Truslo, one of his partners in playing, drinking some water and eating jelly grapes is not deformed. His game was in a terrible condition, but his position should not be.
“Going to this day, I just wanted to enjoy there,” said Duanjani. “I knew that I was outside it after my first tour, so I just tried to enjoy the experience as possible, and I was trying to keep my head up, and I didn’t really get myself. I continued, and I was just happy with my presence here.”
The frustration was definitely there. When he was unable to get the ball from FESCUE to Al -Akhdar in 17, his head was brought in disappointment. His shot from the coarse was not much better, but Duangmanee simply continued. Each shot was not without a routine. On a day when Ocont took the players to the left and right, including some of the best in the world, Duangmanee chose grinding.
His 18 -year -old starting ball – a harmful shot fell in a warehouse in the corridors thanks to the driver who was giving him trouble throughout the day – prepared the theater for what will determine its final degree. Duanjani erected the warehouse and left itself a difficult wedge, which fell for a long time of the hole. He did not have the opportunity equally with the opportunity to enter and slip after the hole.
The dream of the US Open Championship not only attended DuangManee here, but also his family. Both his parents, his brother (young in the Golf team in UVA), his grandfather, his girlfriend and more family traveled to Pittsburg to watch him playing. All that he called will be secondary.
“This means a lot that there are people who want to be here and watch me playing the golf game and supporting me,” said Douangani.
In the afternoon wet in Pittsburg, with situations on the eighteenth green color that will be filled within two days, it was hardly occupied, duangmanee lined up. He left himself 6 feet, 7 inches.
He studied it carefully, as if it was to make the pieces and pour it.
When Dwanjani walked towards his genetics, he could only break a smile. Its 89 tied second in the highest score in one round in the US Open over the past twenty years.
“Just make her a great achievement here for me,” Duanjani said. “This proves that what I do, the hard work that I put in practice, pays its fruits. The ability to compete against the best players in the world. It is really where I want to be.”
Oakmont Duangmanee may be sent to the home with his Reading-35 performance card, but he didn’t leave. He has put a lot of work to get here, and he is not ready to move forward yet.
“It will definitely take at least three or four days and enjoy it with the family,” he said. “I think I will stay all over. We are already here, and it is open to the United States.”
