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Duuuuuude, you are desperately needed on the football board. You know what to do. 

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If vick wins this, im buying a safari hat

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For the record, lots of top ams think the US Am is a joke. It produces more crappy champions than any of the other top am events. This is because only the top 50 in the world are automatic qualifiers, so you end up with 200-250 players who are good players at regional universities but are not elite and have zero chance of winning. The Western Am, Sunnehanna, etc have much better champions because nearly the entire field is filled based on world rank, which means a high percentage of the top 100 or 150 are in it. 
 

Also, because the US Am uses two courses for qualifying, there’s a much higher chance to get screwed based on your tee time and course draw. That happened both last year and this year. Oakmont played much harder Monday than Tuesday (literally and figuratively) because of the weather. I know a top am who played in the bad draw last year and said he smoked a driver and then hit a good 3 wood and was 50 yards short of the green on a par 4 because the wind was so strong in the last afternoon. Guys who played that hole in the morning the day before got the opposite wind and hit driver-wedge and it was an easy birdie hole. Hard to tell who’s actually the best when half the field starts with a 5 stroke advantage 

This year only one of the top 40 players in the world made the top 8, and only 3 of the top 80 made the top 8. If that happened in a professional major, we'd say something is seriously wrong. Sounds more like an off-field event than a major  

Tldr: US Am champion is the coolest title in amateur golf and comes with the best perks, but it’s not set up to determine the best player, and there are at least 3-4 amateur events that mean more.

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If this story is accurate, then something needs to be changed at the Athletic Performance Center.  Or at least not have two of your top golfers doing a relay running event.

Each Coody twin breaks an arm in a non-golfing accident

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Pierceson and Parker Coody might be taking this identical twins thing a bit too far. The 21-year-old star senior golfers at the University of Texas are both expected to miss the start of the spring college season after each broke a bone in his right arm in a fluke non-golf accident.

First reported by GolfChannel.com, the brothers were competing in a post-workout relay race at UT’s indoor Athletic Performance Center earlier this month. As they crossed the finish line, both brothers crashed into a padded cement wall, their arms bracing for the impact. However, as it turned out, each one broke a bone in his right arm when hitting the wall, both suffering radial-head fractures, according to GolfChannel.com, just below the right elbow.

"For us to be literally in slings together, doing physical rehab together every day, it's kind of ironically funny," Pierceson, the No. 2 golfer in the World Amateur Golf Ranking and the PGA Tour U ranking, and a member of the U.S. Walker Cup team last spring, told GolfChannel.com.

 

Indeed, the brothers, who turn 22 on Jan. 7, are trying to get healed back home in Plano, Texas, in hopes of missing as little of the spring schedule as possible. The recovery from the injuries is likely to take eight to 12 weeks, with neither brother expected to be able to hit balls until mid-January at the earliest. Texas coach John Fields told Golf Digest that they are progressing well and currently on track to compete mid-spring.

The Longhorns open the spring portion of the 2021-22 season at the Southwestern Invitational in California on Jan. 24-26 followed by the Amer Ari Invitational in Hawaii on Feb. 3-5. The team’s third spring event isn’t until late February.

Pierceson finished the fall semester with a 72.0 average, playing in three events with a top finish of T-11 at the Colonial Collegiate Invitational. Parker, 68th in the OWGR, also played three times, posting a 72.67 average with a sixth-place showing at the Maridoe Collegiate.

 

Texas closed out the fall ranked eighth in the Golfstat ranking and has a talented roster that includes two-time U.S. Walker Cupper Cole Hammer and U.S. Amateur semifinalist Travis Vick.

 

"I told the guys at the beginning of the year that COVID would challenge us in different ways, on and off the course," Fields said. "Patience, perseverance and flexibility would be our best friend. This is just another in a series of curve balls."

 
 

 

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https://www.golfdigest.com/story/cole-hammer-be-right-podcast

How cool is Cole Hammer's name? It was the talk of the 2015 U.S. Open at Chambers Bay, where Hammer, at the age of 15, made his major championship debut. His rounds of 77 and 84 saw him miss the cut, but the teen phenom's name remained an unforgettable one in the golf fan's mind.

Turns out, his game has become even better than his name. In the seven years since, Hammer has put together a decorated amateur career that includes two Walker Cup appearances (both wins in 2019 and 2021), wins at the 2018 Azalea Invitational and the Western Amateur, a win in the 2018 U.S. Amateur Four-Ball with partner Garrett Barber, two more U.S. Open appearances and the 2019 Mark H. McCormack Medal. Need we continue?

Despite the laundry list of amateur accolades, Hammer, now a senior in college, still doesn't consider himself the Big Man on Campus. There's simply too much competition for that title on a campus like the University of Texas in Austin.

"You know, it's funny, we're not [the big men on campus] whatsoever," said Hammer when asked if the Longhorns golf team is popular amongst their peers. "Oklahoma State claims to be a golf school and they're still fully a football, basketball, baseball school. My school, our social media does a great job of trying to promote our program, but the short answer is no. The long answer is we wish we were Big Men on Campus. Sometimes we'll walk around and people will recognize us, but it's not like 'oh, there's QB1.' It's like, 'oh, there's golfer 1-2-3-4-5.'"

The good news for Hammer? Once he reaches the tour, everybody will either remember his name or love his name at first sight. He'll soon miss the days of being able to stroll across campus incognito-like. 

Speaking of school, Hammer still has his final spring golf season remaining before going pro, which was among the topics discussed on this week's episode of "Be Right." Please, have a listen below to our chat with Hammer, and stick around for our Honda Classic picks. 

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