Callum Tarren plays a shot onto the second green during the first round of the U.S. Open golf tournament. (Photo: John David Mercer-USA TODAY Sports)
This is Tarren’s second U.S. Open and for the second time, he had to deal with travel and luggage issues.
After qualifying for the 2019 U.S. Open at Pebble Beach, Tarren flew from Atlanta to San Francisco on Sunday before U.S. Open week began. He planned to continue on to Monterey, California, which is the closest airport to Pebble Beach, but a mechanical issue caused the flight to be canceled. Tarren wound up taking a $450 taxi ride from San Francisco to Monterey. His gear was supposed to arrive at Monterey airport Monday morning, and his luggage did come, but his clubs wound up being re-routed to New Orleans and then Denver. He practiced with borrowed clubs before his set arrived on Wednesday.
This year, Tarren flew from Toronto to Boston on Saturday.
“I got here, no clubs,” he said. “There was five other players on my flight. They all got golf clubs, so it was the second U.S. Open I’ve played in and second time no golf clubs.”
This time, however, someone went to the airport, informed the staff of what happened and his clubs arrived on Sunday at 2:00 p.m.
“It wasn’t bad.”
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