“I grew up in southeastern Pennsylvania, and it’s just like this, Northeast style. “You know, I think I credit Northeast golf,” he said. There’s a comfort level at Ridgewood that is helping Gross, who beat Chris Francoeur 3-and-2 in the Round of 32 before lunch on Thursday. “He three-putted the 36th hole of stroke play and I’ve never seen him so down,” Coyne said. Not bad for a kid who came here with no expectations and had to survive a playoff to advance to match play. I won four holes on the back nine, four out of the six we played. I thought I really put on enough pressure to where he felt like he had to do something special. “On the back nine, I was hitting good shots all day and was just a little off with my lines, missing some short-sided, I just started hitting greens and putting the pressure o. “We were kind of just battling it out for about seven, eight holes,” he said. The match was tied after nine, but Gross withstood the stress, moved on quickly from the occasional unlucky bounce and won four of the next five hole with two pars and two birdies. Potter is an 18-year-old who plays at Arizona State. It’s just phenomenal stuff for a 15-year-old kid.” He also has great poise and works really hard on his game. He’s been grinding and playing up against the older kids. “He’s played in tournaments since he was probably 10 years old. “I think he just has prepared for such a long time,” said Rob Coyne, his caddie and high school coach. He’s clearly done a lot of homework to get this far. “To have something that puts my name next to those two is really special and something I’ll remember forever,” Gross said. Pan made the quarters 15 years ago, becoming the youngest to win a Round of 16 match since the immortal Bobby Jones in 1916. That’s kind of freed me up, and I’ve gone out in all my matches and played within myself because I know even though I’m 15, I have the game to compete with anybody.” At least here I feel like I’m playing with house money because I’m a 15-year-old kid, who, if I lose, I’m a 15-year-old kid and I’m playing these 20-, 25-, 30-year-olds who are great players. “Not to the point where I’m like shaking or anything, but I want to play well. “I mean, every tournament I play, I have a little bit of anxiety because I want to play well,” said Gross, who attends Downingtown (Pennsylvania) West High School. Amateur quarterfinals since 2007.Ĭlearly, he’s good enough to eat lunch with the big kids. With a 4-and-3 win over Luke Potter on Thursday at Ridgewood Country Club, the 15-year-old high school junior became the youngest player to advance to the U.S.
For the record, Nicholas Gross did shave before the start of match play. The bigger picture: Clearpay’s growth may be complicated by tougher BNPL competition and regulation taking shape in the UK.PARAMUS, N.J. The Clearpay integration can help lift Square sellers’ sales and encourage them to use more of Square’s services. CEO Jack Dorsey doubled down on creating tighter integrations with Afterpay within its Square and Cash App ecosystems during the firm’s Q2 earnings call.Clearpay can help Block tap into the 12% of adults in the UK who made a purchase using BNPL last year, per UK Finance.BNPL use has also expanded well beyond mainstay retail categories like apparel and beauty: 44% and 32% of consumers in Great Britain were willing to use BNPL to purchase major appliances and home furnishings, respectively, according to a 2022 YouGov study.īlock’s opportunity:Integrating Clearpay can help bolster Block’s UK business and bring the firm one step closer to connecting its ecosystems.
In-store and online BNPL constituted a greater share than prepaid cards and other payment methods in the UK. BNPL accounted for 6% of ecommerce transactions and was the fifth-most-popular brick-and-mortar payment method in the UK last year, per FIS.Why it’s worth watching: BNPL services have become widely popular across the UK as consumers seek out flexible and interest-free payment methods. While this was notably slower than Q2 2021’s 88% YoY growth, stronger ties with Afterpay likely helped Block avoid a sharper deceleration. Block’s Q2 gross payment volume (GPV) increased 23% year over year (YoY). Bringing Afterpay to its US and Australian sellers helped drive up Block’s payment volume and supported seller retention in Q2, CFO Amrita Ahuja noted on the company’s earnings call.
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