MSU Golfer Wins US AM
James Piot becomes the first Michigan-born golfer to win. Anyone know if U of M recruited him or not? Not snark, just curious. Golf is a very unique sport. Anyone can get hot.
August 15th, 2021 at 7:05 PM ^
Nobody cares about that golf school.
August 15th, 2021 at 7:08 PM ^
Not snark - Why?
Go Blue.
August 16th, 2021 at 10:23 AM ^
This world is filled with enough hate and anger and whatnot. A great accomplishment for the young man and MSU, grats to them!
August 15th, 2021 at 7:08 PM ^
Was an absolutely epic match. Such a fun event to watch.
August 15th, 2021 at 7:36 PM ^
Makes for a pretty cool year coming up. A colleague's son won the Amateur Championship (British amateur) several years ago. Ticket punched for The Masters, The Open and US Open.
August 15th, 2021 at 7:47 PM ^
Wait wut?
August 15th, 2021 at 7:59 PM ^
It was a tough choice-the kid from MSU or the kid from Ohio...actually it wasn't for me. The Michigan kid seemed much nicer.
August 15th, 2021 at 8:44 PM ^
....you mean Shea???
August 15th, 2021 at 8:00 PM ^
He was recruited by UM but was always ticketed to MSU. Older brother (2 years older) played there. I think his hs coach played there too.
August 15th, 2021 at 9:08 PM ^
He did, extremely good golfer to this day still. Was runner up at Big Tens to Steve Stricker back in the day.
August 15th, 2021 at 9:05 PM ^
Some guy from another school did this really cool thing. If you want more details on said guy or woman, about said activity, check out that schools’ sports blog.
~fuck MSU
August 15th, 2021 at 9:36 PM ^
OTOH, if you want the updates on everything Michigan, just head on over to the RCMB.
August 16th, 2021 at 9:27 PM ^
Great retort.
August 15th, 2021 at 9:35 PM ^
I blame Harbaugh for the failure to recruit this kid!!
August 15th, 2021 at 9:52 PM ^
Thanks, OP. You taught me something tonight.
I understood unique to mean without equal or one of a kind. HOWEVA, Merriam Webster begs to differ. Third entry for unique:
3 : UNUSUAL//a very unique ball-point pen//we were fairly unique, the sixty of us, in that there wasn't one good mixer in the bunch— J. D. Salinger
August 15th, 2021 at 10:36 PM ^
Money quote from tiny tom izziot....
"Izzo actually told me a little while ago, 'It's a golf school, now.' I'm going with that."
He may be correct as it sure ain't a basketball school!
August 16th, 2021 at 6:11 AM ^
It's curious that Izzo-says-it's-a-golf-school seems to be leading the headlines today.
August 15th, 2021 at 11:35 PM ^
Golf is not a sport and I’ll never be convinced otherwise.
August 15th, 2021 at 11:54 PM ^
Don't tell Johnny Carson. Urban Legend.
August 16th, 2021 at 3:08 AM ^
He went to Detroit/Novi Catholic Central for highschool. Go Shamrocks!
August 16th, 2021 at 8:16 AM ^
Happy for him.
August 16th, 2021 at 9:50 AM ^
The head coach at the time didn't want to recruit him because "he wasn't big enough and didn't hit it far enough."
August 16th, 2021 at 10:30 AM ^
I recorded the last handful of holes but haven't watched it yet. surprised that he came back to win. will finishi it now. congrats to the young man from Canton, MI.
August 16th, 2021 at 10:40 AM ^
Not related to this guy, but Brendan Quinn has a great article in the Athletic about how he ended up spontaneously caddying in this year's US Amateur.
https://theathletic.com/2769466/2021/08/13/welp-you-got-the-job-side-by…
August 16th, 2021 at 2:13 PM ^
Celebraee!
August 17th, 2021 at 8:08 AM ^
We recruited him but the MSU bagman paid too much...
...plus their NIL is so much better than ours. That was the tipping point.