(Editor’s note: Golfweek’s Cameron Jourdan is following all the action from Olympic Club. Check out his updates from the second round here.)
SAN FRANCISCO — Little John is moving on to match play.
John Daly II, the son of two-time major winner John Daly, rallied Tuesday at the 2025 U.S. Amateur, shooting 3-under 67 on the Ocean Course to get in the clubhouse at 1-over 141, which is inside the cut line. That means Daly is heading to match play at the biggest amateur championship in the world for the first time.
“I got off to — I mean, I missed the fairway on one, made a really good 10–15 footer, and then, I don’t know, I just putted really well today,” Daly said. “I just hit it in the right spots to miss. I feel like when I did hit bad tee balls, I was fine, and then I just putted insane.”
His round featured five birdies to only two bogeys, and while his seed won’t be set until the end of stroke play Tuesday night, he’s likely to have a top-25 seed heading into match play.
Daly, playing in the more difficult wave and course Monday, opened in 74 on the Lake Course, but he was seven shots better Tuesday morning.
He got into the field thanks to his win in the Southern Amateur last month at Blessings Golf Club in Arkansas. Now he’s one of 64 left duking it out for the Havemeyer Trophy.
Is Dad going to make it out for match play?
“I don’t think so, no. I’m not sure. He might.”
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