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It doesn’t matter who dad is: To reach the U.S. Amateur, you have to earn it. And Gary Nicklaus certainly did that. The 49-year-old son of Jack Nicklaus got through qualifying Thursday at Eagle Creek Golf & Country Club in Naples, Fla., to earn a spot in next month’s U.S. Amateur at Pebble Beach. He did it the hard way, too. Nicklaus fired a two-day score of 139, which only proved good enough to put him a playoff for the second and last spot out of the qualifier. His opponent in the playoff? A 14-year-old named Luke Clanton. Per Naples Daily News, the age discrepancy actually had Nicklaus curious if the playoff involved the oldest and youngest players in that qualifier field. Regardless, only
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