For the eighth straight season the 2022 Ole Miss men's golf team
headed to regionals with their sights set on a postseason run
Despite
losing sophomore Brett Schell to illness, the rebels kept it rolling the Norman
with lights out rounds from seniors Jack Gnam and Jackson Suber
punching their ticket to the national championship
Now the team heads to Greyhawk Golf Club
with hopes to write their names in the history books.
Rut, is this where you got your jersey?
So we just got back from Norman Regional,
got through so headed to Scottsdale in a couple of days
going to get recognized out here at the baseball game, so pretty cool.
It's pretty packed and isn't it the final, final home series,
so that's pretty awesome.
Two iron right into the batters eye.
Alright!
We knew we'd get to this point.
Ladies and gentlemen.
Please welcome to Swayze Field your Ole Miss men's golf team.
They're about to head to their 6th NCAA championship
appearance in program history.
This last week the Rebels were in the Norman regional, with Jackson
Suber, Evan Brown and Jack Gnam all picking up top 20 finishes in Norman.
Your Ole Miss men's golf team.
Hey, hot
and dry but we'll take it, it's better than sitting at home, right?
You got to be there to win it
Good God that putts fast.
They said do you mind being mic'd up I said sure.
He thinks he's hid.
He ain't hid.
You want to rabbit foot for this week?
Base knock.
Yeah, is that the first bird?
Push cart mafia right here.
The cactus you see behind the green,
Oh, interference.
Oh, yeah.
Picasso.
I got to put a little screen on. A little reapply.
Pretty sure rabbits are pretty skittish by nature.
I know.
You got to have that
light, red light, yellow light, green light on
in your head. RBI.
How far do you think he needs to catch it?
Like, right here? Right.
Obviously.
Give him ten, 15 yards?
Look at you using a pushcart thinking you can run with a rabbit.
Hey, man.
Hey, man, I got back issues.
And mind you, my knee so nice sitting there
190 and you're just like oh, well, just a full eight.
Very nice. Thank you.
Rare shade.
The razorbacks are gonna be a little warm today.
When did they become the pushcart mafia?
When we became it.
We've only got two.
They've got three. That makes them the mafia.
I'm not getting it annoying.
I'm being funny.
That's what I'm being.
That was a fun golf course.
I'm really
hard, but...
In the desert,
the early golfer gets the greens
and the Rebels started off
bright and early in the morning wave on day one,
especially in the desert, morning
and afternoon tee times really make a big difference with wind.
Not just like the wind moving the ball around,
but the wind will dry the greens out.
And it'll make them a lot firmer and faster and kind of harder
to keep it on there.
And then when it is windy you're hitting the ball lower.
So that makes it even harder to stop it on greens.
You can't feel yourself sweat all that much just because of the wind, too.
So the dry heat takes it out of you.
It's definitely something where you have to kind of realize
what your body is going through and be able to adjust
throughout a round to golf, to be able to, you know, still perform.
And the hard part is, you know, with the format that you have there,
the early morning tee times, you usually have to take advantage of those.
I know personally
I didn't expect, of course, to play as hard as it did in the first round.
I mean, I didn't
change game plan or anything, but I did think I was losing
or we were losing a little ground of the field.
But it turns out no, like place is just really hard.
There were some tough conditions and it was, you know, a good test of golf.
So great golf course.
obviously, that wasn't our best golf and that was going to be our one bad
round of the week.
You know, he told us that all the good golf that we have is in front of us.
And, you know, that we're obviously much better than that score
and we put a really good round together the second day.
I mean, shooting ten shots better of the second day
than first day is unheard of in the afternoon wave and helped
by the fact that I think suber played one of the best rounds I've ever seen.
I wouldn't say he was anywhere near neither would he, playing his best golf
the days leading up when we were out there
playing and hitting some crazy shots and we just in the way,
he just brushes it off and doesn't even worry about it.
It just shows the amount of confidence that he has in himself.
I mean, all this puts us in these strong tournaments
and gives us such a good opportunity to move up on that ranking
and I was fortunate to do that with round two for Jackson to go out and shoot
65, it was by far the lowest, you know, round of that afternoon wave.
And I think, you know, of the entire day.
So I think it says a lot about him that when the lights were on and they were
they were the brightest, he really stepped up.
The remainder of the season, hung in the balance
as the field narrowed to the top 15 teams
that was disappointing finish for me personally.
And then
not everyone played as well as they wanted to,
but we still got to grind it out and having your fate in someone
else's hands out there is definitely not where you want to be.
I played much better than I finished that third round.
So I, of course, was a little bit disappointed and kind of felt like I had
we were going to miss by a couple and I kind of felt like it was my fault.
We all went back to the hotel.
Those guys, a lot of them kind of stayed in their hotel rooms.
They were refreshing golfstat.
I chose to go down to the pool and,
you know, let it be, you know, one way or the other.
Honestly, I didn't think we had a chance when we finished.
That wind kicked up a lot that third round, though.
And I mean, you just kind of watched teams fall down the leaderboard.
And I kind of was like, all right, we're we're in at this point
because, I mean, you're not going to,
that finishing stretch is tough out there on either side of the course.
That was brutal.
We were we were all in our rooms I'm sure we were all clicking refresh
every 5 minutes.
But it's a good opportunity for these boys and we're looking forward to
it was pretty nerve wracking for sure.
We're just sitting there refreshing it as much as you could,
just hoping that you get in.
We got some of the guys together in the room.
We were just kind of hanging out, you know, all fingers crossed hoping
We got in and we got the final update and it was it was pretty fun to see that.
So glad we got the opportunity and we're looking forward to a good day today.
So that's all you can ask for.
For Grad Transfer.
Evan Brown teeing off on the final round of Stroke
play was a defining chapter in a long journey.
This was all during COVID.
We didn't have a chance to bring him in for a visit.
You know, the rules did not allow that.
So it was a unique recruiting situation to add somebody
onto our team that we had never met face to face.
We learned a lot about him over Zoom calls and and liked what we saw.
Evan did a fantastic job throughout his earlier college career.
He was probably the bigger fish
in a smaller pond, whether like in terms of competition.
And he jumped into high level competition quickly
and he did a great job at it and he helps out a ton.
Coming here,
I was definitely kind of the outlier and, you know, kind of coming into a new team
that everybody knew each other and it definitely was
going to be an adjustment for everybody.
But I think that, you know, as a group, we all, you know, came together
and said, you know, we all want to have the same goal we all want the same things.
And, you know, we just kind of made sure that everything was going to work out.
We were all going to work with each other and it was going to be a great,
you know, a great year.
This season was a success.
It was certainly a step in the right direction.
Are we there?
No. Are we done? No.
We're going to be back and we're going to build on this experience to
get closer and closer to to a national championship.
But I couldn't be any more proud of this group of guys to have the second best
finish in Ole Miss men's golf history is is a pretty awesome accomplishment.
And I think that we're all never going to forget that.
And I think it's going to, you know, stick with this group of guys for
a very long time.
Are we gonna sit down or we're getting it to go?
where you get Fleming's to go ever.
I don't know, we've got nicer places to go.
Actually, I have no clue where the next hole is.
The TV tower is pretty sick!
Bet you could hit some knippers out of there.
I want to take my shoes off and walk around in it.
Not sure I'd feel super safe hearing that.
Pretty pumped up I'm not gonna lie.
I never had a mic on me.
We didn't do this at Loyola.
Wherever that stops.
If it does.
I wonder what kind of fish are in there. Swimming ones.
All right.
How long from right here?
To get to the top of that mountain?
I just, Coach loves Bone Fish and we've gotten that to go, so.