RealClearSports: 2 Golfers Find Their Dreams

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

SAN FRANCISCO -- James Hahn was playing on adrenaline. Michael Allen was working on a 30-year-old dream. In that all-day ordeal called U.S. Open sectional qualifying, each found success and a place in America's golf championship.

A total of 130 players competed for seven places over 36 holes, 18 apiece at Lake Merced and Harding Park, both within view of Olympic Club, up a low hill, where the 112th Open will be held next week.

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