{"id":1833,"date":"2015-06-09T15:11:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T19:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetigerfanforum.com\/news\/?p=1833"},"modified":"2015-06-09T15:11:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T19:11:00","slug":"three-former-tigers-in-u-s-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thetigerfanforum.com\/news\/2015\/06\/09\/three-former-tigers-in-u-s-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Former Tigers in U.S. Open"},"content":{"rendered":"
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CLEMSON, S.C. – Former Clemson golfer Sam Saunders had consecutive rounds of six-under-par 66 at the United States Open Sectional Qualifier in Columbus, Ohio on Monday \u00a0and will play in\u00a0 the 2015 United States Open in two weeks at Chambers Bay in University Place, Wash.\u00a0 Saunders will be joined by former Clemson golfers Ben Martin and Lucas Glover, who were already \u00a0exempted into the prestigious professional major.<\/p>\n

This will mark the sixth time since 2008 that Clemson has had at least three former or current players in the U.S. Open.\u00a0 The record is five for the 2011 tournament,\u00a0 which is he most former Tigers in any professional Major.\u00a0 This will mark the 10th<\/sup> straight year at least one former Clemson golfer has played in the U.S. Open.<\/p>\n

Saunders\u2019s performance on Monday was a bit unexpected in that he was coming off rounds of 76-80, a missed cut, at the Memorial Tournament on the PGA Tour.\u00a0 Saunders is in his first year as an exempt member.<\/p>\n

But, on Monday, Saunders switched to his caddie\u2019s\u00a0 (Travis McAlister) irons and shot 12-under-par for the two rounds combined.\u00a0 In his first round of the day he had eight birdies.\u00a0 In his second round he had four birdies, two eagles and two bogeys.\u00a0 He tied for the low 36-hole score for day at the site with Michael Putnam, his playing partner.<\/p>\n

Saunders played at Clemson from 2005-08 and was a teammate of Martin during that time.\u00a0 They combined with All-American Kyle Stanley to lead Clemson to a fifth place national finish in 2008.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Martin qualified for the 2015 U.S. Open by virtue of his No. 49 World Ranking on May 25.\u00a0 Glover is exempt through the 2019 U.S. Open.\u00a0 He was granted a 10-year exemption for winning the 2009 U.S. Open.<\/p>\n

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CLEMSON, S.C. – Former Clemson golfer Sam Saunders had consecutive rounds of six-under-par 66 at the United States Open Sectional Qualifier in Columbus, Ohio on Monday \u00a0and will play in\u00a0 the 2015 United States Open in two weeks at Chambers Bay in University Place, Wash.\u00a0 Saunders will be joined by former Clemson golfers Ben Martin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[21],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thetigerfanforum.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thetigerfanforum.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thetigerfanforum.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thetigerfanforum.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thetigerfanforum.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thetigerfanforum.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thetigerfanforum.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thetigerfanforum.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thetigerfanforum.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thetigerfanforum.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}