Road trips are part of the competitive golfing life, from the early days of car-pooling crosstown for a local junior event to boarding airplanes and criss-crossing the country to compete on a higher level.
Ian Holt, Chase Johnson and Tyler McHugh –— members of the prosperous Kent State golf program — are veterans of those trips.
But just as some events are bigger than others, this trip and this event is the biggest of all for the KSU trio.
It is the 116th annual United States Amateur Championship and it begins Monday at famed Oakland Hills Country Club in Bloomfield Hills, Mich.