Friday, August 5, 2011

Former D3 Player wins US Senior Open

Olin Browne won the US Senior Open at the end of July providing an explanation point to a great career, despite its inauspicious start. Below is an excerpt from the article. There is more than one way to get to the show.

"It couldn't have happened to a less likely guy. When he tried out for the Division III Occidental College team as a freshman, he shot 88 and 89 yet still made that shorthanded squad. He worked in the bag room at New Seabury Resort, a course on Cape Cod, that summer and decided then that he would become a professional golfer, leading to a long and determined road that featured only one successful try in his first 10 trips to Q school."