The most exciting point for the open Saturday? You probably missed you

Oakmont, without. – when a mermaid sounded Oakmont country club Friday evening, signaling the end of the game for the day, only a handful of players were still on the course, setting the final touches in their second rounds. Among them was Philip Barbaree Jr., a 27-year-old professional from Shreveport, La., Who made his way to this 125 -The open US Surviving the local and final qualification guarantee.

This is a big week for Barbaree, a former US amateur champion who now removes his trade in the PGA Tour Americas. Barbaree has played in only one US open (losing cutting in Shinnecock hills in 2018) and never made a cut on PGA or Korn Ferry Tours. Arrival at the weekend at Oakmont would mark a historic moment in the career.

When the game was suspended, barbaree was in six front – one inside Line -But on his way to a long par-3 noise, it means when he returned to the course at 7:30 in the morning on Saturday, to make the cut, he will have to imagine upward par-4 9, which on Friday played as the second most harsh hole in the course with a average of 4.54 strokes.

One four for the greatest shortening of his life.

Barbaree is not typically a steering observer, but when you have 23 hours and 15 minutes to think about a single hole, you will need to hue in a cave not to see or hear some items. In the Barbaree case, he said he was stuck on the line number when he moved Instagram on Friday evening. This is when he told his wife Chloe, “I know where I stay, and now just got much harder, so help me deal with him.”

Chloe is not just the bride of Barbaree, she is also his caddy. Been for the last year or so. Like a lot of looper relationships, their own began with a trial with a tournament, which led to another, then another. When Barbaree started playing well, he said, “I forced him to stick around.”

Chloe didn’t need much convincing. She loved the concert very much. Surprisingly, she is neither a golf player nor knows much about the game, but she is a Handikap Plus-5 when it comes to providing moral support. “He thinks I bring a different perspective because I don’t have a golf background,” Chloe said Saturday at Oakmont. “I see things that maybe others won’t see and tell him, and that just works.”

On Friday evening, when Philip began to sweat the challenge with a hole he had before him, Chloe helped calm his nerves, reminding him that he would play excellent golf for two days in a brutally harsh course and no matter what outcome Saturday morning, he should feel embedded in his performance.

Pep talk aside, Philip had a worried night. That’s because he knew there was much more in question than just the weekend times in a big and beautiful story for his grandchildren-one of the benefits of making cutting in the US Open is an exception from the first phase of the PGA Tour Q-School. “Oakmont is difficult, but the school that may be more difficult,” Philip said on Saturday. “Just being able to go through a scene, it’s big.”

When Barbaree returned to Oakmont early on Saturday morning, he cleared his deception on his 8th, then entered the par-4 followers, a 465-yard gold climbing a steep pitch towards the club. Stroke was essential. Barbaree arrived with that task, striking a 293-borre kick down the left side that left 174 yard for his second on a right front. His approach was good, not excellent, pulling 32 meters less from the hole. His bird’s exam was also good, not excellent, stopping 5 meters, 2 inches less than its sign.

Five meters that must have been felt like 50.

In what was a gloomy morning, cloudy covered in Oakmont, Barbaree was placed on his ball, shocked his holder again and … he was probably drawn to the greatest prey of his life. When the ball disappeared, Barbaree raised his right arm, tightened his fist and rejected it.

“Yes! Let’s go!” One of its bark bark from the green right.