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Mason Howell has a year of high school, but he can tell his classmates who played at the US Open before walking in graduation.
The Junior of Georgia High School, 17, qualified for the Open of US 2025 at the Piedmont Driving Club in Atlanta on Monday after shooting an impressive 18 under two rounds. It is also one of the best classified Junior golfers in the country, which reaches number 8 on the list of the American Golf Junior Association. However, his feat was remarkable considering that he was the classification amateur number 496 entering the Monday qualifier.
“That was one of the best moments of my life,” Howell said after his two rounds.
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Mason Howell observes his shot during the US Junior Amateur Championship. UU. In Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, on July 23, 2024. (Raj Mehta/Getty images)
The “longest day of golf” is what is called the amateur qualifier, since the golfers must play two complete rounds to determine who will participate in the 125th edition of the main tournament, which will take place in Oakmont Country Club in Pennsylvania this year.
It was certainly an exhausting day, but Howell passed through his 36 holes without putting a bogey on the score card, shooting 63 in his two rounds to win his place in the open field of the United States.
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Howell ended first with Jackson Buchanan, a 22 -year -old University of Illinois University, who also qualified for the tournament.
Mason Howell plays a shot during the US Junior Amateur Championship. UU. In Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, on July 23, 2024. (Raj Mehta/Getty images)
But there were not only fans in the qualification field. The 2007 Masters winner, Zach Johnson, was among the PGA Tour veterans who were trying to enter the field as well. Only the five best finalists in the classification table can enter Oakmont, and Howell now has tons of impulse in the tournament next week.
Mason Howell of the United States plays its shot during the United States Junior Amateur Championship in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, on July 23, 2024. (Raj Mehta/Getty images)
Howell comes from Thomasville, Georgia, where he starred in the Brookwood Golf team High School Boy, who won the fourth state title of the program in the last five years last month. Despite remaining a year of school before graduation, he has already pledged to remain in the state for the next chapter of his golf career and play for the Bulldogs of Georgia.
