OAKMONT, Pa. — Generally on the U.S. Open, you get a neighborhood participant or two who makes it by means of qualifying to get into the sector, lives their transient dream and is passed by the weekend, having missed the minimize by a mile.
Nobody is aware of what lies forward Friday for Ryan McCormick and James Nicholas, two of essentially the most adorned gamers from the New York Metropolitan Space who certified into this week’s one hundred and twenty fifth U.S. Open at Oakmont.
However after Thursday’s opening spherical, damned if each of them aren’t in competition.
Nicholas — a 28-year-old native of Scarsdale, graduate of Yale, son of Dr. Stephen Nicholas, the longtime orthopedic surgeon for the Jets, and grandson of Dr. James Nicholas, who preceded Stephen with the Jets and occurred to be Joe Namath’s orthopedist — is on the primary web page of the leaderboard.