Neal Shipley’s arm must be black and blue by now, given how many times he has pinched himself to prove he’s not imagining things, that getting to hang with the two best golfers in history really did happen.
In late March, Shipley spent almost two hours talking golf strategy with Jack Nicklaus at the Golden Bear’s place in South Florida. Then last Sunday, the 23-year-old OSU graduate student played the final round of the Masters with Tiger Woods.
“Talking to Mr. Nicklaus was unbelievable and playing Tiger was awesome too, icing on the cake, really,” Shipley said Thursday following a whirlwind few days in which he appeared on ESPN’s “The Pat McAfee Show,” was a guest on a handful of podcasts and enjoyed the notoriety of becoming a social media meme for his bizarre sideways glances during the awards ceremony in Butler Cabin after finishing as low amateur at Augusta National.
“I don’t think even I understood the whole weight of what was going on Sunday. It didn’t hit me until I got home on Tuesday,” he
Neal Shipley’s arm must be black and blue by now, given how many times he has pinched himself to prove he’s not imagining things, that getting to hang with the two best golfers in history really did happen.
In late March, Shipley spent almost two hours talking golf strategy with Jack Nicklaus at the Golden Bear’s place in South Florida. Then last Sunday, the 23-year-old OSU graduate student played the final round of the Masters with Tiger Woods.
“Talking to Mr. Nicklaus was unbelievable and playing Tiger was awesome too, icing on the cake, really,” Shipley said Thursday following a whirlwind few days in which he appeared on ESPN’s “The Pat McAfee Show,” was a guest on a handful of podcasts and enjoyed the notoriety of becoming a social media meme for his bizarre sideways glances during the awards ceremony in Butler Cabin after finishing as low amateur at Augusta National.
“I don’t think even I understood the whole weight of what was going on Sunday. It didn’t hit me until I got home on Tuesday,” he sai
