STILLWATER, Oklahoma -- Augusta University still owns Karsten Creek.
Seven years after Patrick Reed helped lead tiny Augusta State to back-to-back NCAA Championships here in the heart of Cowboy Country, another player from Augusta won the NCAA individual title on Wednesday.
And this may have been an even bigger shocker: Augusta senior Broc Everett, the 152nd-ranked player in the country, prevailed in a sudden-death playoff over Auburn freshman Brandon Mancheno to win the biggest prize in college golf.
“It’s an incredible feeling,” he said. “I can’t even describe it honestly right now.”
Everett redshirted his first year at Augusta and heard rumblings from the coaches that he might not be good enough to stick around there. His biggest highlights during his freshman season, he wrote in his website bio, were a third-place finish at the Ottumwa Amateur and a runner-up showing at the Des Moines City Championship.
“I put up some decent scores where coach (Jack O’Keefe) was like, OK, you can stay around and keep working hard, because he saw that I worked hard every day and didn’t settle for just staying the same,” Everett said. “I was always trying to progress and keep getting better.
“Coach gave me the opportunity to just keep growing every single year.”
Everett took his greatest leaps this season.
NCAA MEN'S D1 CHAMPIONSHIP: Team Scoring
NCAA MEN'S D1 CHAMPIONSHIP: Individual Scoring
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AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY JAGUARS MEN'S GOLF IS AN ASSOCIATE MEMBER OF THE MID-EASTERN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE (MEAC).
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