BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — Had everything gone according to plan, Christo Greyling would be a seasoned veteran at the U.S. Open and every other major by now.
Instead, the one-time prodigy is making his debut on golf’s most imposing stage at age 28.
A career that once looked to have an unlimited future was sidetracked first by a strange illness, then more recently by his father’s suicide. When he steps to the tee box at Congressional Country Club on Thursday, he’ll be looking to redirect a journey that could have been something more by now — hoping there are a weekend’s worth of great swings in his bag, the kind he used to make when he was the nation’s top-ranked junior.