UNIVERSITY PLACE, Wash. — At age 20, Beau Hossler isn’t yet old enough to drink, but he has played in three national U.S. Opens. He's very well-spoken, but you know he’s still a youngster when he refers to U.S. Golf Association executive director Mike Davis, who he has come to know through U.S. Opens and U.S. Amateurs, as “Mr. Davis.”
Having missed out in qualifying the last two years, Hossler, who will be a junior at Texas in the fall, shot 65-71 to make the grade at Big Canyon Country Club and Newport Beach Country Club in his home state of California at U.