Burgoon, a highly-touted player entering college who had struggled to live up to expectations until this year, bogeyed 14, 16 and 17 Landry, ranked 36th and perhaps severely underrated until this week, made solid pars to win those three holes. That’s when Burgoon, as he has been prone to do throughout his collegiate career, started to press.Įven his mother, Mary Elise, said she could see it in his eyes.įor four holes, Burgoon missed fairways left and struggled with approach shots from the rough and a tough lie in a fairway bunker. But most everyone in attendance still figured it was over, quickly and quietly, considering Burgoon’s 4-up advantage with five holes to play. It made you wonder if the new format had peaked before it really even began.Įarly Saturday afternoon, the scoreboard behind the 18th green read 2-2 Texas A&M’s Andrea Pavan and John Hurley had run away with their matches, and Arkansas’ Jamie Marshall and Jason Cuthbertson both grinded out important victories late to tie the score. The moment created a gigantic bubble of buzz and emotion that only seemed to shrink throughout the semifinals and much of Sunday’s final, all of which lacked real drama, not to mention your typical college powerhouses and favorites. 16-18 to upset Oklahoma State’s Rickie Fowler and the top-ranked and top-seeded Cowboys, sending Inverness into a frenzy. On Friday morning, in the event’s first match, Georgia’s Brian Harman birdied Nos. It was a striking end to the NCAA Championship’s new match-play format that had drawn equal parts praise and critcisim over the last few days, not to mention over the last year. Burgoon hurriedly walked across the green to shake Landry’s hand, then returned to his teammates and coaches to continue the celebration. “He just hit a great shot.”īurgoon’s teammates, Conrad Shindler, Matt Van Zandt, John Hurley and Andrea Pavan jumped up and into each other. He took more than a few minutes to line up the putt, but his ball never found a good line and rolled left past the cup about six inches. Landry smiled as he gestured to Burgoon, most likely in shock. Landry had hit his approach before Burgoon from the middle of the fairway it landed on the front of the green, and spun back a foot to about 30 feet from the cup. 18’s right greenside bunker to win the 1986 PGA Championship.Īs Landry stepped up to mark his ball on the green, he conceded Burgoon’s birdie putt by giving him the thumbs up to pick the ball up. “It couldn’t be better, I still can’t even think right now.”Ĭonsidering the setting, it was just another walk-off wedge at Inverness, where Bob Tway so famously holed out from the No. “I don’t remember what was going on,” said Burgoon, laughing. All factors considered, Burgoon’s shot will go down as one of the best in college golf history.
Just like that, euphoric turned to historic. Imagine then what went through Burgoon’s head when he realized his ball had actually stopped just two inches from the cup. How else to react after hitting the shot of your life – as Burgoon saw it, a 120-yard 18th-hole approach from scraggly rough to “about 4 or 5 feet” for a chance to end his deciding match with Arkansas senior Andrew Landry and win his Aggies their first NCAA Championship? Especially after standing on the 14th tee about an hour earlier with a 4-up lead – only to miss four consecutive fairways and greens and lose four consecutive holes before stepping to the 18th tee. Assistant coach Jonathan Dismuke jumped and latched onto Burgoon, the pair splitting up just as they neared falling over the edge of a deep fairway bunker.īurgoon, who as a high school senior wasn’t exactly sold on the idea of going to college, couldn’t believe it. He whiplashed his towel, screamed, then slammed it down into the rough, along with his wedge. The second he saw the ball begin rolling left, at about the same time the fans surrounding the 18th green started screaming, Burgoon lost it.
1 – sailed into the sky above Inverness Club’s 18th hole and dropped down on the middle-right portion of the green, on top of a ledge sloped down to a tucked-left pin position.
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He watched as his Pro V1 – a Titleist No. TOLEDO, Ohio – Senior Bronson Burgoon picked up his maroon and white Texas A&M golf bag and put it on his shoulder, his 52-degree Nike wedge still in his right hand.
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