How Bay Area-adjacent golfers fared over first two days of the 2025 U.S. Open

A number of golfers with ties to the Bay Area teed it up at Oakmont Golf Club for the 2025 U.S. Open. Here’s a look at how they fared over the first two days of competition:

Collin Morikawa – A SoCal native who played for Berkeley Men’s Golf from 2015 to 2019, Morikawa tops the list of golfers with Bay Area connections after the first two days of the 2025 U.S. Open. Rounds of 70 and 74 have him sitting at 4-under, T23, seven strokes back of 36-hole leader Sam Burns.

Morikawa has the strongest major tournament cred of any NorCal player in this year’s Open, with wins at the 2020 PGA Championship at Harding Park in San Francisco, and the 2021 Open Championship (aka the British Open) at Royal St George’s Golf Club in Sandwich, England to his credit.

Maverick McNealy – The young man who was named after a 1970s Ford compact car sits one spot back of Collin Morikawa on the U.S. Open leaderboard after 36 holes. A 2017 graduate of Stanford University, McNealy turned in one of only six below-par rounds on the second day of the tournament, a one-under 69. Added to his opening-round 76, that leaves him in a nine-way tie for 36th at +5.

McNealy, who is the son of Sun Microsystems co-founder Scott McNealy, grew up at Pebble Beach and in Portola Valley, on the San Francisco Peninsula. He has one PGA Tour win to his credit, the 2024 RSM Classic, and narrowly missed out on a win at the 2021 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, where he finished second to Daniel Berger. His highest finish in a major tournament is T23 at the 2024 PGA Championship.

Sadly, Morikawa and McNealy are the only Bay Area-adjacent golfers who will be playing on the weekend in Oakmont. Others with Bay Area connections who won’t be playing the final rounds include amateur Jackson Koivun, who was born in San Jose but grew up in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and is a rising junior at Auburn University; Mark Hubbard, a native of Denver, Colorado who played his college golf at San Jose State from 2007 to 2011; Kevin Velo, a native of Danville and former San Jose State Spartan who turned pro in 2020; and James Hahn, of Alameda, a 2013 Berkely graduate who notched his first PGA Tour win in 2015 at the then-Northern Trust Open at Riviera Country Club.

Procore Championship is returning to Napa’s Silverado Resort

PGA Tour golf comes back to California’s wine country in three months as Procore Corporation returns for its second year as the presenting sponsor of the Tour’s Napa stop, at the famed Silverado Resort & Spa, September 8–14.

Practice rounds and pro-am events start tournament week off, Monday through Wednesday, 8–10 September, with competition rounds beginning on Thursday the 11th.

The tournament has a long and varied history, stretching back to 2007 over three venues (Scottsdale, Arizona’s, Grayhawk Golf Club; CordeValle Golf Club in San Martin, California; and the current venue – Napa’s Silverado Resort & Spa) and three previous sponsors – Fry’s Electronics, Safeway, and Fortinet.

While the tournament’s spot in the PGA Tour calendar has remained fairly constant, its place in the scheme of things has not as the Tour veered from a calendar-year schedule to a split-year schedule and back again. Before the switch to a split-year schedule in 2013, this event’s early fall placement made it a post-Tour-Championship staple for newer players and fading veterans looking to boost their bank accounts while the big names took time off before the next year’s season opener in Hawaii. Starting in 2013 the event, as the Safeway Open, became the Tour’s season opener, and the awarding of FedEx Cup points boosted its appeal to players who wanted to get a jump on the year-long chase to the Tour Championship.

Previous sponsor Fortinet, an internet security firm, took over sponsorship from Safeway in 2021 with the openly admitted goal of possessing not only a prime venue in the heart of Northern California’s wine country, but THE prime spot in the PGA Tour schedule – the season opener.

Fortinet Senior VP Jim Overbeck was ambivalent, on the surface, about the change back to the calendar-year season when asked about it at a pre-tournament press conference in 2022, but the handwriting was on the wall, and the network security firm – who I always felt saw the tournament as a combination networking event and corporate party that just happened to have a golf tournament attached – pulled out of their deal with the PGA Tour and left the event’s local organizers scrambling for a presenting sponsor.

Current sponsor Procore, a construction management software company based in Carpinteria, California, is in the second-year of the two-year commitment they signed up for last year. Who knows where the event will go from here – but for now golf fans can once again look forward to enjoying good food, good wine, and world-class golf action at a handsome venue overlooked by the golden hillsides of the Napa Valley.

General admission tickets start at $55 per day and include access to PGA TOUR competition, all fan zones, and public viewing areas. Children 15 and under are admitted free with a ticketed adult (up to four per adult). Daily parking is available for $25 and can be purchased in advance online.

For a $250 daily ticket, fans looking for an upgraded experience can elevate their day at the Redwood Club, an all-new VIP shared hospitality venue behind the 18th tee. Amenities include front-row seating, a hosted daily lunch, beer and wine service, a full cash bar for spirits, and upgraded restrooms.

Ticketing information for the tournament is available online at https://procorechampionship.com/tickets/, and if an up-close, behind-the-scenes PGA Tour experience is what you are looking for, check out volunteer opportunities at https://procorechampionship.com/Volunteer/.