SAN FRANCISCO – Scottish Neil Shields Donegan, who grew up in close by Mill Valley, reached the American newbie semi-finals on the Olympic Membership on Friday, delighting his large vocal gallery.
Donegan set his first season in North Carolina two years later at Northwestern – notre-dame junior Jacob Modreski lasted longer than the nineteenth gap in windy circumstances.
“I really feel like I am with this crowd, I do know a number of them, it simply feels very pure. …I can not thank them sufficient for being right here,” Donaghan stated. “I am simply attempting to benefit from the second… It is superb how they provide me a lot help.”
Donegan even pulled a 6-foot birdie putt on the par-5 seventeenth.
“You simply have to remain that affected person,” Donegan stated. “You may’t go any additional than you… One gap is its personal occasion, and it is simply staying within the current, not pondering forward.”
Donegan will face Jimmy Abdo of Gustavas Adolphus College in Minnesota in opposition to sophomore Jackson Herrington, a winner of 4 and two.
“I did not play very nicely at present,” Herrington stated. “I used to be fairly mad at myself for that. I felt like I used to be placing him in a bit longer, however I obtained the job executed.”
Herrington and Donegan have been among the many 17 gamers who superior from the 20-man playoffs Wednesday morning and determined the ultimate 64 gamers within the recreation. Donegan’s father, Lawrence, was a longtime golf correspondent for the Guardian.
Within the different semi-finals, Georgia teenager Mason Howell will face Oklahoma Junior Eric Lee. They every earned a match 1 Up by 18-year-old Howell defeating John Daly II to edging 16-year-old Mile Russell from Jacksonville Seaside, Florida.
“I like the truth that it is me and one different man,” Lee stated. “I do not actually need to fret about what I’ve filmed. I would like to fret about defeating different guys.”
Howell certified for the US Open this yr within the Atlanta division’s 63-63 spherical. A senior Arkansas participant, Daly is the son of two-time main champion John Daly.
