{"id":25730,"date":"2025-10-27T16:48:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T20:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/10\/27\/asu-freshman-golfer-emails-professor-before-tournament-receives-great-response\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T16:48:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T20:48:29","slug":"asu-freshman-golfer-emails-professor-before-tournament-receives-great-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/10\/27\/asu-freshman-golfer-emails-professor-before-tournament-receives-great-response\/","title":{"rendered":"ASU freshman golfer emails professor before tournament, receives great response"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>The Arizona State University men&#8217;s golf team is one of four teams competing in this week&#8217;s Eastlake Cup in Atlanta, one of the premier college events on the calendar. Based on the latest GolfWeek\/Bushnell rankings, the lineup includes No. 2 Virginia, No. 4 Ole Miss, No. 7 ASU and No. 14 Florida.<\/p>\n<partner-banner util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" class=\"spacer-large\" min-height=\"600\" fluid=\"\" outstream=\"\" momentum=\"\"><\/partner-banner>\n<p>But it led to a hilarious exchange between an ASU freshman and one of his professors at a tournament in September. Boston Bracken, a native of St. George, Utah, was looking forward to competing in the Wohari Classic, held at Wohari Golf Club in Coalville, Utah, outside Salt Lake City.<\/p>\n<p>Bracken was doing the right thing and contacted her before she missed class. Then the professor gave an answer that had never been seen before.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Is there anything I should be aware of?&#8221; the professor wrote, his name included in a screenshot of the exchange. &#8220;Are you kidding me? I&#8217;ll do Coach Thurmond&#8217;s job for you,&#8221; the professor said jokingly.<\/p>\n<partner-banner util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" fluid=\"\" bottom=\"\" lazy=\"\" class=\"spacer-large\" min-height=\"390\" outstream=\"\"><\/partner-banner>\n<p>The professor went on to explain in detail about the golf course, its design and strategy.<\/p>\n<p><media-oembed util-module-path=\"elements\/media\" provider-name=\"Twitter\" class=\"column ten-column no-gutter spacer-large\"><\/media-oembed><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to be sure if the advice worked, but Bracken shot even par through 54 holes and tied for 14th place. He was the Sun Devils&#8217; third-best golfer in the tournament behind medalist Connor Williams and Michael Myasses (tied for eighth). ASU also tied New Mexico for the team title.<\/p>\n<lit-timestamp class=\"column ten-column no-gutter spacer-small\" slot=\"timestamp\" publishdate=\"2025-10-27 20:05:14.661619963 +0000 UTC\" updatedate=\"2025-10-27 20:08:33.144476296 +0000 UTC\"><\/lit-timestamp><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Arizona State University men&#8217;s golf team is one of four teams competing in this week&#8217;s Eastlake Cup in Atlanta, one of the premier college events on the calendar. Based on the latest GolfWeek\/Bushnell rankings, the lineup includes No. 2 Virginia, No. 4 Ole Miss, No. 7 ASU and No. 14 Florida. But it led [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[17],"class_list":{"0":"post-25730","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}