Last Monday night, Carter Jenkins was sitting at home with his folks in when a message arrived on his father’s phone. It had been a long week even before the arrival of Golf’s Longest Day: US Open qualifying.
In this annual test of nerve and skill and stamina, Jenkins went through 36 holes and then a seven-man playoff. At the end of it all, the world No 294 – who plays on the Korn Ferry Tour - had reached a first major championship.
But still he was conflicted - hours earlier, while he was out on the course in Durham, his parents were in nearby Raleigh, celebrating the life of another young golfer. Grayson Murray, the two-time winner on the PGA Tour who – just nine days earlier – had taken his own life. He was 30. ‘Devastating,’ Jenkins says.
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