The U.S. Open is considered the most democratic of major championships. That’s because golf’s national championship in this country is open to anyone with an entry fee and a qualifying handicap index.

Local and sectional qualifying (now referred to as final qualifying) provide a path to the Open for players not on the PGA Tour or DP World Tour. But it is difficult path as was proven again Monday when 10 sectional qualifiers were played. Among those events were the 25 golfers who played their way out of local qualifying events in the Coachella Valley in May.

Of those 25, only one golfer, Maxwell Moldovan of Uniontown, Ohio, made it to the U.S. Open on Monday. Moldovan tied for second at a sectional in Springfield, Ohio, where four Open berths were available for 82 players. It is the secon

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