NCAA Men’s Golf Quiz: 1) Who am I? I won back-to-back NCAA individual titles in 1976-77 and then won a U.S. Open. 2) Who was the last Wake Forest golfer to win an individual title? 3) Who is the last to win multiple individual NCAA championships? 4) Who is the most recent individual NCAA winner to then win a professional major? Answers below.
Stanley Cup Playoffs
It’s Chicago vs. Tampa Bay in the Finals. Saturday night, Chicago and their star, Jonathan Toews, won Game 7 in Anaheim, 5-3, with Toews scoring twice, a game that wasn’t as close as the final score. Chicago led 4-0 in the second.
The Blackhawks have now reached three Stanley Cup finals and five conference finals in a seven-year stretch under coach Joel Quenneville, winning the Cup in 2010 and 2013.
The Blackhawks’ Brad Richards, formerly of the Rangers and Tampa Bay, had two assists on Saturday and is now 8-0 in Game 7s in his NHL career.
Chicago had staved off elimination with a 5-2 win at home in Game 6.
For the Ducks, it was their third home Game 7 loss in the last three seasons, after a first-round loss to Detroit in 2013 and a second-round loss to the Kings last season. It was also the third straight time Anaheim didn’t close out a series after taking a 3-2 lead.
As for the Eastern Conference, the New York Rangers had everything going for them in playing a Game 7 at home against Tampa Bay, with goalie Henrik Lundqvist being undefeated in such contests, 6-0, and the Rangers never having lost a Game 7 at home in their history.
But for the second straight home contest, the Rangers were shutout, 2-0, and they failed to score on home ice the last 145 minutes of the series, plus the offense managed just 11 shots in the first two periods of the biggest game of the season. They scored two goals or fewer in 13 of 19 playoff games. Heck, the Rangers scored just four goals in four games at the Garden against Tampa Bay, losing the last three. That’s inexcusable.
Friday night, Lundqvist was brilliant, except on the first goal early in the third and that was all the Lightning needed.
So the Rangers made it to a Conference final for a third time in four years, but they remain without a Stanley Cup since 1994.
It’s a shame, because as New York fans know, King Henrik is as good as they come, but he remains Cupless.
After the game on Friday, we also learned captain Ryan McDonagh played the last few contests with a broken foot. But that’s hockey. No excuses.
As for Tampa Bay, Mike Lupica of the New York Daily News put it best.
“As hard an out as Lundqvist and the Rangers were last year and as hard an out as they were this year, you cannot look at the series just played and say they were better than Tampa Bay, or more talented. And by the way? If the Rangers can take a punch, what about the team that just beat them? The Lightning lost, 5-1, in Game 4, came to New York and shut out the Rangers. The Lightning gave up seven goals in Game 6 with a chance to close out the Rangers, benched its goalie, Ben Bishop, in the third period of that one, and came back and shut out the Rangers again in Game 7. The Lightning wasn’t just faster than the Rangers, it was just as tough.”
NBA Playoffs
Cleveland vs. Golden State in the finals, an intriguing matchup featuring LeBron and Steph. And while fans may grumble about the long stretch between the end of the conference finals and the start of the final series, both teams are loving this unprecedented break. LeBron needs the time to heal his many wounds, while the rest should do wonders for Kyrie Irving and his tendinitis. For Golden State, they have an issue with Klay Thompson, who suffered a concussion in the final game vs. the Rockets. It’s not known as of today what his availability will be.
For LeBron, it is his fifth consecutive NBA Finals, a feat achieved only by various players on the 1960s Boston Celtics.
–For the record, the Warriors wrapped up their series with the Rockets 104-90 to take it 4-1. Houston shot just 26 of 74 from the field, 35%. Golden State thus ended a 40-year drought, their first Finals since 1975, when they won it all under Al Attles. While the franchise was on the right track, no one expected this kind of success so soon.
But look at the Warriors’ 2012 draft…Harrison Barnes, Festus Ezeli and Draymond Green. As Ronald Reagan would have said, ‘Not bad, not bad at all.’
–Chicago fired coach Tom Thibodeau after five seasons and a .647 winning percentage in the regular season (255-139), and that’s despite the fact star point guard Derrick Rose played in only 181 of the 394 Thibodeau coached because of injuries.
But even from afar you could see the coach was wearing out his welcome. Bulls chairman Jerry Reinsdorf said in a rather cold statement:
“The Chicago Bulls have a history of achieving great success on and off the court. These accomplishments have been possible because of an organizational culture where input from all parts of the organization has been welcomed and valued, there has been a willingness to participate in a free flow of information, and there have been clear and consistent goals. While the head of each department of the organization must be free to make final decisions regarding his department, there must be free and open interdepartmental discussion and consideration of everyone’s ideas and opinions. These internal discussions must not be considered an invasion of turf, and must remain private….
“Unfortunately, there has been a departure from this culture. To ensure that the Chicago Bulls can continue to grow and succeed, we have decided that a change in the head coaching position is required. Days like today are difficult, but necessary for us to achieve our goals and fulfill our commitments to our fans. I appreciate the contributions that Tom Thibodeau made to the Bulls organization. I have always respected his love of the game and wish him well in the future.”
Truth is, despite the gaudy regular-season record and the tremendous job he did without Rose for long stretches, the Bulls were only 23-28 in five postseason appearances, and zero trips to the NBA Finals. Of course LeBron was always in the way. 12 of the losses were to him.
The Bulls are going to hire Iowa State’s Fred Hoiberg, who once played with the Bulls, though he also just had his second heart procedure in April.
–Meanwhile, former Orlando Magic point guard Scott Skiles was hired to be the new coach of the franchise. Skiles has coached three teams to a 443-433 record, including 18-24 in the playoffs. His last job was with Milwaukee, parting ways with the team after 32 games of the 2012-13 season.
The Magic had three straight seasons of 25 or fewer wins under coach Jacque Vaughn.
–And New Orleans has hired Golden State assistant Alvin Gentry to be its new coach. Gentry will finish up the Finals, of course. Gentry was selected over Jeff Van Gundy and Thibodeau.
—Josh Hamilton has played in seven games since his return for Texas, and after two homers on Friday, Hamilton appeared as a pinch-hitter in the bottom of the ninth on Sunday, Rangers trailing the Red Sox 3-2, and Hamilton delivered a two-out, game-winning two-run double. He is now 6-for-22, .273, with 2 HR and 5 RBI. Texas, a shocking 26-25, is now 5-2 since his return.
–Washington hurler Stephen Strasburg was placed on the 15-day DL with neck stiffness, an injury that forced him to leave Friday’s start after only 16 pitches. He’s been horrendous this season, 3-5 with a 6.55 ERA in 10 starts.
But the Nats are also currently without starter Doug Fister, also on the DL, and they learned outfielder Jayson Werth will be out until August with two fractures in his left wrist, which was hit by a pitch.
Bryce Harper was drilled in the back on Friday with a pitch and he was forced to sit out Saturday due to soreness, though he was back in the lineup Sunday. The Nats, however, were swept by the lowly Reds in Cincinnati.
–Mets fans are wondering what the heck is wrong with lefthander Jon Niese, who was 3-2, 1.95 ERA his first six starts of the season, but has gone 0-3 and given up 23 runs in his last four, 20 earned, in the worst stretch of his career.
The timing couldn’t be worse because the hope was the team could work out a good trade as they have a terrific lefty, Steven Matz, waiting in the wings in AAA.
Niese and the Mets lost to the Marlins 9-5 on Saturday, a game that saw Giancarlo Stanton his two home runs, including the longest shot yet at Citi Field, 466 feet! It did look all of that.
–Friday night, Miami handed Matt Harvey (5-3, 3.11) his second consecutive defeat, 4-3. Harvey pitched great, 8 innings, 11 strikeouts, but made one big mistake that Miami’s Justin Bour crushed for a three-run homer.
Alas, the Mets salvaged the series finale against the Marlins on Sunday, with 42-year-old Bartolo Colon becoming the N.L.’s first 8-game winner, Mets winning 4-3. Colon also had an RBI double, while closer Jeurys Familia picked up his 15th save.
Colon is now 23-16 since the Mets signed him to a two-year contract prior to the 2014 campaign. It doesn’t matter his ERA is above 4.00 over that time. He’s winning.
The Mets, 28-23, are also 21-8 at home. Miami is 20-31, or 4-9 under new GM turned manager Dan Jennings.
–Over the weekend, when Ichiro was up for the Marlins, one of the Mets announcers pointed out his career splits. I thought I knew all things Ichiro, he being one of my favorite players of all time, but I forgot the lefty-swinging future Hall of Famer is .330 against lefties for his career, .311 against righties.
I looked it up to double-check and then saw he is .318 at home, .316 on the road, which, guess what, equates to his .317 career average. Funny how that works.
–The Dodgers began to alleviate a logjam at third base in trading Juan Uribe to Atlanta as part of a six-player trade, that included lefty Eric Stults going to L.A., who was then designated for assignment. Uribe, 36, had lost his starting job to Justin Turner and rookie Alex Guerrero.
–The Astros’ Dallas Keuchel is 7-1, 1.76.
–Colorado third baseman Nolan Arenado, 24, has 12 HR 35 RBI, for the resurgent Rockies (22-26).
The great King Felix, Felix Hernandez, ran his record to 8-1, 1.91 ERA, with a complete game shutout of the Rays on Wednesday, 3-0.
The Mets’ Noah Syndergaard threw 7 1/3 of shutout ball in the Mets’ 7-0 win over the Marlins on Wednesday, but it was Syndergaard’s hitting that stole the show, 3-for-3 with an absolute bomb to center for a home run. His hitting performance was no fluke. His batting stroke has everyday player written all over it and as Mets announcer Ron Darling was exclaiming, “He’s expanded the bench!”
NFL
–Atlanta Falcons linebacker Prince Shembo was charged with aggravated animal cruelty after his girlfriend’s dog died from blunt force trauma. He kicked it when she left him alone with the dog. Shembo was then waived by the team, which said in a statement: “We are aware of the charges that have been filed against Prince Shembo. We are extremely disappointed that one of our players is involved in something like this.”
At the NFL Scouting Combine in February 2014, Shembo said he was the Notre Dame football player at the center of an investigation into sexual assault allegations made by a former student at Saint Mary’s College, Lizzy Seeberg.
In September 2010, Seeberg said that a Notre Dame football player had attacked her in a dorm room. Seeberg committed suicide 10 days later. The name of the player who was allegedly the attacker was never made public until Shembo came forward. And of course the NFL being the NFL, Shembo got a job.
–Former NFL player Ray McDonald was arrested again, Wednesday afternoon, for allegedly violating a restraining order, according to Santa Clara police. This follows his arrest Monday on suspicion of domestic violence and child endangerment. He was released by the Chicago Bears that afternoon.
The eight-year veteran had previously been released by San Francisco for a “pattern of poor decision making,” which included a different arrest on suspicion of domestic violence.
–Denver Broncos Pro Bowl left tackle Ryan Clady tore his left ACL during practice Wednesday and will likely miss the 2015 season, a big blow for quarterback Peyton Manning.
Clady once hurt his knee in a pickup basketball game in April 2010, but he returned to start every game that season. This is his fourth major surgery in the last five years.
–Tom Brady’s appeal for his Deflategate suspension will begin June 23, according to USA TODAY Sports.
–Now that the 2014-15 television season is history, the No. 1 rated broadcast show was NBC “Sunday Night Football.” “Empire” on Fox was No. 2. “Thursday Night Football” (CBS) was No. 3.
Golf Balls
—Rory McIlroy missed his second straight cut in Europe, this time at the Irish Open at Royal County Down after shooting 80-71. Stunningly, it is also the third straight year McIlroy missed the cut at the Irish Open, a tournament he hosts for his foundation.
As for the event itself, Denmark’s Soren Kjeldsen, 40, won the event at just -2 in a three-way playoff. Rickie Fowler had two 8s in the tourney.
I love Royal County Down, having played two rounds there in the mid-1990s. My favorite story of the changing conditions at this Northern Ireland classic is of my friend, David P., who in the first round shot 102 in horrific conditions (plus we didn’t know the course), but the next day, with conditions mild, improved 20 strokes to 82. That, folks, is golf in Ireland.
[My two scores? I think like 120 and 105. What can I say. Honestly, the place is brutal, witness the winning score this weekend.]
–On the American tour, Aussie Steven Bowditch picked up his second win at the AT&T Byron Nelson event.
–Gotta love CBS’ Jim Nantz working in his Republican schtick during tour events such as this weekend, with Bush 43 in the booth.
–The NCAA Men’s Division I Golf Championship is underway in Bradenton, Fla. After 54 holes of stroke play, Fri.-Sun., the low 15 teams, top nine individuals, advance to stroke-play final round to determine eight teams for match play and the individual champion. The championship match is slated for Wednesday.
Incredibly, Oklahoma State has made the finals 67 of 68 years, the only time they weren’t in it was 2012.
–So I have my quiz above on the NCAA championship and this one wouldn’t impact your decision-making re the questions, but I was reminded in a Golfweek piece by Adam Schupak that in 1965, Marty Fleckman was the medalist for Houston (part of a streak where he starred on three consecutive NCAA champions, 1964-66), and then he won his PGA Tour debut, the 1967 Cajun Classic…but he never won again!
Oh, he had his moments, such as being the 1967 U.S. Open leader after 54 holes at Baltusrol (Jack Nicklaus won it over Arnie…my first golf tournament as a 9-year-old spectator).
Fleckman led the 1968 PGA Championship by one with five holes to play and finished T-4 after three bogeys.
By 1969, he finished No. 164 on the money list. His explanation all these years later? He was taking lessons from Byron Nelson and tried to be Byron Nelson, rather than taking what Byron taught him and being Marty Fleckman.
Fleckman copied all of Nelson’s mannerisms but he got worse. His driving was atrocious, including his first ever drive at Augusta in his only Masters in 1969. He hit it so far right, he asked the starter, “Is that out of bounds?” The starter said, “I don’t know. Nobody has ever hit it over there.”
Fleckman suffered from paralysis by analysis. Finally, in July 1978, Fleckman said he was down to his final $1,200 and about to play the Western Open. He called his coach, Carl Lohren (who Nelson suggested he go to) and Lohren flew out from New York.
They shared a motel room and Lohren is dozing off as Fleckman drones on about his ball-striking woes, when Fleckman said something Lohren would never forget.
“He says, ‘Boss, should I take three waggles, look up and go, or should I maybe take four?’” Lohren told Golfweek. “He’s teeing it up the next morning and this is what he’s thinking. I said, ‘Three, Marty.’ He was a world-class talent, but he had something in his head with the driver.’”
“The next day, Fleckman blew a driver way right at the first hole. Teeing off with 1-iron the rest of the tournament, he closed with 66, tied for eighth and won $6,116.67. It kept Fleckman afloat into 1979 when as a non-member he made 11 consecutive cuts, including a T-5 at the Joe Garagiola Tucson Open, to start the year. But he remembers driving it right at New Orleans and the spell was broken. The next year, battling an ailing elbow, he didn’t make a cut in seven starts.”
“I have no regrets,” he said. “I have the job of my dreams. I’ve got the wife of my dreams, and we have the house of our dreams.”
—Jack Nicklaus was in the area this week, as part of the dedication of the new Jack Nicklaus Room at the USGA Museum in Far Hills, N.J. [It was already an excellent museum.]
Nicklaus recounted he never thought about his legacy while he was on the tour.
“Not really. The first time I ever really thought about major championships was 1970 at St. Andrews. I walked in the press room and Bob Greene was the AP reporter and he said: ‘Hey, Jack, that’s 10 majors now. Only three more to tie Bobby Jones.’ That never even entered my mind….
“I didn’t worry too much about my legacy. If I worried about my legacy I think I probably would’ve prepared myself better and won 25 major championships. I’m being facetious. Could I have won more? Yes. Could I have prepared better? Yes. Would I have known my family the way I know them? Probably not. Would I trade what I have with my family and my kids for another two major championships? Absolutely not.”
Nicklaus said he kept the clubs from all his major championships but the only one he doesn’t have is the putter he won the 1986 Masters with. “Where is it? I have no clue. It’ll be in someone’s garage somewhere.”
Nicklaus’ wife, Barbara, and his mother, kept a ton of the artifacts now found in the museum.
–With the Champions League final next week, Barcelona vs. Juventus, ‘Barca’ will attempt to complete a triple (treble) title. Barcelona won the Copa del Rey on Saturday, led once again by Lionel Messi, with a 3-1 win over Athletic Bilbao, after earlier winning the Spanish league title, finishing ahead of archrival, Real Madrid.
Barcelona not only has Messi, but also Luis Suarez and Neymar, with the three combining for a record 120 goals in the season. Messi has 57, including two on Saturday.
–I admit that over the years I haven’t followed the FA Cup much unless literally I was overseas watching a match in a pub, but it really is the best, single ‘Cup’ in all of sports. An English football knockout round that involves all of England’s top leagues and even amateur entrants. So it’s conceivable a really lower rung team can beat a Premier League heavyweight and this season, Bradford City beat Chelsea in one round.
Well, Saturday was the final and Arsenal whipped Premier League rival Aston Villa 4-0 for the FA Cup, Arsenal’s record 12th, thus breaking a tie with Manchester United. I watched until 3-0 (soccer is always good background while doing other work) and it turns out I missed a spectacular final goal.
–As for the FIFA scandal, the sponsors are saying they are considering whether to continue their financial support. Visa, Coca-Cola and Adidas voiced their disapproval, while McDonald’s, Budweiser, Hyundai and Nike also issued statements criticizing the governing body.
FIFA’s sponsorship deals are worth at least $1.6 billion over the next decade.
Adidas has supplied the official match ball for every FIFA World Cup tournament since 1970.
Aside from the ongoing investigations in the U.S. and Switzerland, you have the horrific reports coming out of Qatar and the toll the 2022 World Cup is taking on workers there, with the International Trade Union Confederation estimating 4,000 workers will die by the time the World Cup opens.
As for the coming Champions League final in Berlin, UEFA president Michel Platini is not giving FIFA the 50 tickets it is normally granted, as relations between the two governing bodies, already at an all-time low, hit bottom.
As for newly re-elected FIFA president Sepp Blatter, he condemned what he described as a “hate” campaign against football’s world governing body by European officials and said he was “shocked” by the comments of U.S. prosecutors. He’s wrapped up “Dirtball of the Year” honors, football division. [Prince Shembo may have wrapped up the award for American football, but he has a lot of competition.]
French Open
–After defeating former No. 1 Victoria Azarenka in the third round of the French Open on Saturday, Serena Williams improved her record to 16-3 against Azarenka and 9-0 against her in Grand Slam tournaments. As Azarenka said, “I don’t know how she does it. When she plays against me and Maria, her level is not at all the same as when she plays against some of the others.”
Nothing earthshattering yet in terms of the tournament and upsets. Men’s side in particular thus far holding to form, except No. 14 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga did defeat No. 4 Tomas Berdych.
—Jimmie Johnson won again, capturing this weekend’s NASCAR race at Dover, the 74th of his career.
–Phil W. passed along a story I had missed. Wake Forest freshman Noah Rubin almost became the first Wake men’s tennis player to win the NCAA singles championship, but last Monday he lost to Virginia’s Ryan Shane 3-6, 7-6 (4), 6-1 at Baylor University. Rubin was up 5-3 in the second before Shane rallied back.
Recall I wrote of Rubin last year as it was kind of a shock Wake was able to snag the No. 1 recruit in the nation.
–Not for nuthin’, but we’ve had a ton of bear sightings in my area recently. Millburn-Short Hills is under assault. I’ve told my brother, who works in the area, that he needs to arm himself with the official Bar Chat Bazooka, but he’s a black belt so he’s confident he can handle himself… which is also why my brother and I don’t argue.
–From USA TODAY Network: “A Nixa, Missouri, man who waded into the James River on Friday was bitten on both legs by a venomous snake and died Saturday.” It was a suspected cottonmouth snake.
He told his girlfriend he had been bitten twice – once on each leg, but he refused to go to a hospital and went home.
According to the coroner, the girlfriend said: “That evening he got lethargic but just wouldn’t go to a hospital. They went to bed and she reported he was snoring more loudly than usual. The next morning when she woke up, she found him dead.”
–From the BBC: “A court in India’s Rajasthan state has rejected a plea to release a tiger who has been branded a killer and caged.
“Nine-year-old Ustad was tranquilized and shifted from a national park to a zoo earlier this month after he killed there men, including a forest guard.”
A tiger lover, Mr. Singh, said “the real reason the park decided to move Ustad was because of pressure from the local tourist industry, which feared visitors would be frightened off by the presence of a maneater.”
“More than 60 people are killed by tigers every year in India.”
Time to launch a commando raid to free Ustad, don’t ya think? ‘Tiger’ remains No. 3 on the All-Species List.
—Entering the ASL at No. 19 with a bullet is ‘Swordfish.’ From J. Mac and the New York Daily News:
“A Hawaii man was killed Friday morning after getting impaled in the torso by a swordfish.
“Randy Llanes, 47, had jumped into Kailua-Kona’s Honokohau Harbor while holding a spear gun, in an apparent attempt to catch a swordfish, witnesses said.
“ ‘All we know is the next thing they know, the man is seen floating,’ said West Hawaii Acting Battalion Chief John Whitman of Hawaii County’s fire department.
“Llanes had tried to shoot the swordfish and somehow got punctured in his right upper torso, officials said.
“Whitman said this isn’t the first swordfish slaying he has encountered.
“ ‘They are very aggressive animals,’ he said. ‘If you mess with them they defend themselves pretty good.’”
You might say that the Swordfish is a helluva swordsman.
—George Clooney, star of the gargantuan flop “Tomorrowland,” has had few big movies when it comes to the box office, outside of the three “Ocean’s” movies and “The Perfect Storm,” which, as the New York Post’s Kyle Smith put it, was “a movie whose star was a wave. Clooney wasn’t pictured on the poster of that one and barely featured in the ads.”
“If his movies took in a dollar’s profit for every magazine cover and breathless infotainment tidbit on him, they’d earn more money than they actually do at the box office.”
Only four of Clooney’s 25 starring movies made a significant amount of money.
Contrast this with Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson. His “Journey 2: The Mysterious Island” banked $335 million worldwide. And Johnson’s three “Fast and Furious” films are by far the three highest-grossing entries in that seven-film series.
Kyle Smith: “If the success of ‘Gravity,’ which grossed more than Clooney’s five preceding live-action star vehicles combined, is any indication, any producer hiring the actor for his movie would be best advised to kill him off in the first 20 minutes. (Sandra Bullock, on the other hand, has top-lined four hugely profitable films in just the past six years.)”
“During the post-World War II marriage boom, when gas shortages persuaded honeymooners from New York and Philadelphia to stay closer to home, hoteliers began luring newlyweds to the Poconos instead of to Niagara Falls.
“But it wasn’t until 1968 that those northeastern Pennsylvania mountains would be unblushingly branded the libidinous Land of Love. That was when Morris Wilkins, a former electrician and submariner, in the unlikely guise of Cupid, sparked a romantic reformation in his own Poconos hotel, the nondescript lakeside Cove Haven resort.
“ ‘There was no particular reason that the Poconos should have been established as a honeymoon destination,’ said Carl Wilgus, president of the Pocono Mountains Visitors Bureau. ‘It was a true testament that advertising works.’”
–We note the passing of Dennis Sheehan, U2’s tour manager for more than 30 years, who was found dead Wednesday morning in his hotel room of a massive heart attack, officials confirmed.
Bono said: “We’ve lost a family member, we’re still taking it in. He wasn’t just a legend in the music business, he was a legend in our band. He is irreplaceable.”
–Paul McCartney told the Daily Mirror he has given up marijuana after many years of indulgence and now prefers wine or “a nice margarita.”
Top 3 songs for the week 6/7/75: #1 “Thank God I’m A Country Boy” (John Denver…still miss the guy…) #2 “Sister Golden Hair” (America) #3 “How Long” (Ace…song goes on way too long…)…and…#4 “Bad Time” (Grand Funk) #5 “Old Days” (Chicago) #6 “When Will I Be Loved” (Linda Ronstadt) #7 “Before The Next Teardrop Falls” (Freddy Fender) #8 “I’m Not Lisa” (Jessi Colter…then who are you? You told me you were Lisa!!!) #9 “Love Won’t Let Me Wait” (Major Harris…uhhh….uhhhh….kids, you need to go to another site…you aren’t old enough for this one…) #10 “Philadelphia Freedom” (The Elton John Band)
NCAA Men’s Golf Quiz Answers: 1) Scott Simpson won back-to-back titles for USC in 1976-77, and then won the 1987 U.S. Open. 2) Wake classmate Gary Hallberg is the last Demon Deacon golfer to win the individual title in 1979. 3) The last to win multiple NCAA individual titles is Phil Mickelson at Arizona State; 1989, 90 (ASU won team title) and 92. 4) Tiger Woods (Stanford, 1996) is the most recent NCAA winner to then win a professional major. Ergo, the individual champions since then haven’t been doing squat once they get to the Big Show, if they ever do.
For you Deacon fans, when Wake won back-to-back team titles in 1974-75, Curtis Strange was the individual winner in 1974 and Jay Haas won in 1975.
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