Stanford Golfer Shoots Course Record 59 After Meeting Tiger
/Brentley Romine and Andy Zunz report that Stanford sophomore Viraat Badhwar met a visiting Tiger Woods Saturday and posted the first ever sub-60 round on the Stanford Golf Course Sunday.
From their Golfweek.com story:
"My first 59, it was a pretty cool experience," Badhwar said. "I just kind of got on a roll. ... It was fun."
The score breaks the previous course record of 61, set by Badhwar and Stanford women's golfer Mariah Stackhouse.
After inducting former teammate Notah Begay to the Stanford Athletics Hall of Fame Sunday (G.C. Digital with the details and video), Woods attended the Raiders game, reports Nick Schwartz. Sadly, the dad jeans appear to have made the trip.
Two greats - @tigerwoods and @81timbrown pic.twitter.com/wJKte4hgn0
— OAKLAND RAIDERS (@RAIDERS) October 12, 2014
**Badhwar talked to Mark Soltau about the round and it wasn’t the first time he’d flirted with a score that low at Stanford. He was also working off this advice from Tiger:
The day before, Tiger explained to me to, “Treat each shot as it comes and treat it as a physical chess match. The result in the end is just the result in the end.” I just took each shot as it came. Luckily, I hit it well and made some really good putts to get the ball rolling and kept that going until the end.
