AGT News Release
If It Were Easy, Would It Be A Major?
The basis of competition is challenge, without a challenge we cannot drive ourselves to compete. Without a golf course that retains all the physical and mental energy from your soul you cannot have a U.S. Open. If a U.S. Open golf course grabs hold of you and takes your love of the game away for a while, don’t blame it because it’s only doing what the course is suppose to do. The AGT realizes it’s not the PGA but we would be cheating our members if we did not challenge everyone to experience what it would be like, one day every two weeks, to be on tour. Life casts many challenges and so does golf so excite yourself again about the game and go to the next challenge.—
A Tour Salute To The Major.
Like most great events, our first U.S. Open will go down in history. The field was 16 players wide and no one really knew how the blend of players would systematically align itself to allow the winner to emerge. Robert Adams the Kemper Open champion was favored as well as The Players Champion, Roger Moore. However, the game within the game was being held in the first pairing between Mark Miller and
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Matt Freeman. The lead was held by Miller going into the back nine but allowed Freeman to get within one stroke on the par 5 13th when miller scored a triple bogey to Freeman’s Par. Freeman would gain a stroke on the par 3 15th and then lose one on 16 when Miller birdied. Freeman pared 17 as Miller bogied to allow Freeman to tie. Both Freeman and Miller scored bogeys at 18 to send them into sudden death. Sudden death was won at 17 and Freeman captured his second major of the year. Below the 1997 Masters Champion, Matt Freeman, is presented with the 1997 U.S. Open trophy.—
