For those that don't know him he won the Byron Nelson and Valero Open a few years back. He's probably more infamous for his game's complete collapse and his sense of humor about it.
Anyhow, he's good friends with a mini tour guy at our club and came out for our Friday money game. I was the C player in the group playing a best 3 gross, net, skins and some trash like birdies, greenies, sandies etc.
So Steven doesn't warm up, just stops by the halfway house and loads up the cooler with beer and meets us on the first tee. Pipes one down the middle, then to 10' and drains the birdie on the first hole. He went on to shoot a bogey free 65 on a 76 rated 7100 yard course. Certainly not tour level difficult course but not a breeze either.
Several observations. A.). This guy is crazy good. I mean head and shoulders above several +2&3 handicaps we play with. B.) The man crushed a twelve pack while doing it. C.) if you want to root for a guy on the Korn Ferry next year then he's your guy. He was more interested in my thoughts, business, family etc than playing good golf. He was a blast to play with. On one par 3 he was last to hit and figured his 9 iron was too much club but he didn't want to go back to the cart to get a wedge so he just said (Aussi accent) "ah **** it I'll just chip a cut in there." And he did.
He was the big winner due to him shooting his handicap and being on the winning team. His handicap on that course is a +8 btw. Insane.
Cool story bro.
Anyhow, he's good friends with a mini tour guy at our club and came out for our Friday money game. I was the C player in the group playing a best 3 gross, net, skins and some trash like birdies, greenies, sandies etc.
So Steven doesn't warm up, just stops by the halfway house and loads up the cooler with beer and meets us on the first tee. Pipes one down the middle, then to 10' and drains the birdie on the first hole. He went on to shoot a bogey free 65 on a 76 rated 7100 yard course. Certainly not tour level difficult course but not a breeze either.
Several observations. A.). This guy is crazy good. I mean head and shoulders above several +2&3 handicaps we play with. B.) The man crushed a twelve pack while doing it. C.) if you want to root for a guy on the Korn Ferry next year then he's your guy. He was more interested in my thoughts, business, family etc than playing good golf. He was a blast to play with. On one par 3 he was last to hit and figured his 9 iron was too much club but he didn't want to go back to the cart to get a wedge so he just said (Aussi accent) "ah **** it I'll just chip a cut in there." And he did.
He was the big winner due to him shooting his handicap and being on the winning team. His handicap on that course is a +8 btw. Insane.
Cool story bro.