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TWO TEAMS, ONE DREAM AND A FRESHMAN NAMED TIGER

THE LAST PUTT:

EDITOR’S NOTE: The Last Putt follows the Stanford and Oklahoma State teams during the 1995 college golf sea- son. Authors Neil Hayes and Brian Murphy colorfully narrate the story of an NCAA championship battle and cast of characters who elevated the collegiate game and continue to resonate today. The Last Putt was released April 5 by Houghton Miffl in Harcourt. The following excerpt is from Chapter 6.

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52 NCGA Golf SPRING 2010

NOTAH AND CASEY

MID-NOVEMBER 1994 TO MID-FEBRUARY 1995

IN THE HISTORY of orga-

nized sports, there have been more intimidating team names than “Team Spam.” Team Spam was the

Stanford golf team’s intra- mural basketball team, a hodgepodge of gunners and

trash talkers, players with oc- casional fl ashes of talent and players who featured amus- ing displays of no talent. Amazingly enough,

Tiger Woods was guilty of the latter. Despite being the greatest junior golfer ever,

Tiger was a 25-handicapper on the hardwood. Though an enthusiastic participant, he’d often be needled for a game line of zero points and zero rebounds, and for his signa- ture move near the bucket— an air ball from two feet. Making fun of Tiger’s

skills was all part of the levity for Team Spam, so

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