The worlds heading players will arrange for the US Open at Pebble Beach subsequent week but Justin Rose, bizarrely, will not be between them.
Rose won the Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village, in Dublin, Ohio, on Sunday dusk and in so you do changed to No 33 in the universe rankings a position that a couple of weeks progressing would have on trial the Englishman a spot in the second vital championship of the season.
The complaint for Rose was that when the cut-off point arrived, he was outward the all-important tip 50 who benefit involuntary entrance and had to try his palm at a 36-hole subordinate contest the day after he had carried one of golfs most desired trophies.
His appetite spent, Rose was regularly going to be up opposite it in a 59-man margin that was chasing 3 places at the eventuality in Springfield, Ohio. He kept his concentration in a initial turn of 68, but a 72 in the second turn left him well off the pace.
It was a incident identical to that of Simon Khan, who won the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth 3 weeks ago. He, too, fell short in a 36-hole qualifier at Walton Heath the subsequent day. There is a clever box to indicate that winners of such prestigious tournaments should be since an grant into championships such as the US Open.
There was great cheer, meanwhile, for dual of Roses compatriots. Brian Davis continued his great form by winning the qualifier with rounds of 67 and 64, and Matthew Richardson, a former Walker Cup player, came by to validate at an additional eventuality in Portland, Oregon.
Davis and Richardson will line up to one side former Open champions Tom Lehman and Ben Curtis, Davis Love and German Alex Cejka when the US Open gets underway subsequent Thursday.
Richardson, who had already come by internal qualifying, dismissed rounds of 68 and 69 to finish 3 at the back of Canadian leader Kent Eger. It will not be his first vital - he played all 4 rounds of the 2005 Open at St Andrews during his career as an amateur.
Corey Pavin, the US Ryder Cup captain, longed for out on gift and an additional notable absentee will be Tom Kite, who won the US Open when it was staged at Pebble Beach in 1992.
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