Summit, NJ - James Nicholas met the embrace of the United States after qualifying for his first U.S. Open Championship.

That's the name of his fiancé, Richmond, USA. Suitable, right?

Nicholas was one of 50 or so family and friends in the final qualifiers of the 36-hole U.S. Open on Monday. As Nicholas approached North’s 18th Green, the coming rough third tricky third, but his faithful gallery was a few steps behind and almost swallowed him. The scene is similar to Phil's Broadway bed in Kiawah, with Nicholas playing the lead.

Despite his bogey three, it was only three-thirds of his day, and after 67-68 he was under 7, but Nicholas, 28, is a top three-body competitive athlete with talented pedigree, and he is boxing Oakmont medals.

"It means the world. My support system is everything to me..." Nicholas started suffocating. It takes him a few seconds.

The mornings of the adjacent southern route began to make some hard savings and some early birdies. "rock…… real As Nicholas described. From the beginning, I just watched all 72 holes at the Korn Ferry Tour event in Raleigh, North Carolina.

"Then, I felt half of New York and half of Scarsdale come out and follow me," Nicholas added. "That's all.

Nicholas always goes further. He just doesn't always know something. His late grandfather, James, was a well-known orthopedic surgeon and pioneer in the field, and Joe Namath had his first right knee surgery for Joe Namath just weeks after Namath was drafted by the Jets — he worked four times on the Hall of Fame quarterback’s knee — before creating the world’s first hospital to treat and prevent sports injuries. Nicholas's father Stephen followed in his father's footsteps, and the young James performed preparatory courses at Yale until he was eligible for the 2017 American amateur game in Riviera, which inspired his belief that he could play golf professionally.

Before that, Nicholas wrote three sports in high school - golf, football and hockey. His latter competed until he was 18 years old. Nicholas is a three-time All-State All-State forward and a member of the New Jersey Avalanche, a nationally ranked travel team and shared the ICE with several NHL stars including Auston Matthews, Charlie McEvoy, Jake Oettinger. Nicholas' last hockey game was in the final of the 2015 Toyota-US Hockey Youth National Championship, where Nicholas' Avalanche lost 5-4 in overtime. He could have played hockey in college, but that would have required the New York State Championship Golfers retirement club. Instead, Nicholas went to Yale, where he could continue his family tradition of multiple NCAA movements.

Stephen attended Harvard, where he played football and baseball. James' sister Erica won six NCAA titles at D-III Middlebury College between hockey and hockey. Brother Stephen is on the golf and soccer teams of Franklin and Marshall, and sisters Michaela star in hockey. Brian is currently Brown’s hockey team, and James believes Erin is probably the best athlete to tie up, a skilled surfer in her many sports talents.

James Nicholas played for a season in the strong safety of the Bulldogs soccer team and decided to focus only on golf. He ended his Yale career as the 2019 Ivy League Player of the Year.

Despite Nicholas' privileged growth, Nicholas developed the reputation of grinders. Seven years later, he is still grinding. After a few months in school, he won the conditional Cohen Ferry Tour status, although he didn't make it to his first event until June, partly due to the pandemic. After that super season, he lost the card and in the next two years, he had only nine tours, spreading several PGA tours. Two winters, he chose to try his luck in Europe. He obtained the DP World Travel Card through the Qualified School and then made the top three. Unfortunately, he only had four weekends for the rest of the season and then missed the Q-School retention card, which brought Nicholas back to the United States - the country, not his fiancé.

"It really made me test as a person and as a player," Nicholas said of his global travel year. "Just travel every week, new places, people speak different languages. Then they play on the golf course.

Nicholas is currently ranked 61st on the Cohen Ferry Tour; the top 20 players locked in the PGA tour at the end of the season. So after arson shot in the turn of five holes on Monday afternoon, Chris Gotterup (71-65), Roberto Diaz, Roberto Diaz (65-71) and amateur Ben James (67-70) (67-70) were added to the U.S. Open, Nicholas could not choose - he took off at 8pm in the summer for South Carolina, Kft Pro Nar Carolina, BM Kft Proce to South Carolina, BM.

Grinding never stops.

But moments like Monday are the reason Nicholas fights. This means too much, it's not really true.

Nicholas said with tears: "My calendar has been hovering for years." "When I was 15 years old, I passed by the locals for the first time, it was just a child with dreams. I was so primitive, I never did that. ... But I told myself that one day I was going to be a big champion, one day I was going to win a major championship, and that was the first step.

“I played on the Korn Ferry Tour this year and it was hard. There were a lot of good golfers, this day, like this mine One day, I had a great time playing. This is really special. I know it resets, and now, well, you have to prepare for America’s opening, it’s a very different beast, but I’m very excited about everything right now. ”

With this major step, Nicholas took control of the United States and continued his journey.