In this week’s episode of College Golf Talk, Steve Burkowski and Brentley Romine ring in the spring season in a big way by welcoming former Stanford great Maverick McNealy on the podcast to chat about his college career, his rising stock on the PGA Tour and how he’s constantly trying to improve and be the best player he can be.
The origin story of McNealy is well-known – a former hockey player who was lightly recruited and ended up playing for his dream school, Stanford, just 10 minutes from his childhood home in Portola Valley, California.
“It was always just a dream of mine to be on that Stanford golf team,” McNealy said. “I’d see that wall with all the team members up there, and it was a pretty cool day when I finally got my picture up on that wall, one that I’d walked by a million times in the clubhouse. … I felt like the luckiest kid out there.
“Had no expectations when I started out. I was completely unranked, and I think nobody even knew who I was.”
After surprising as a freshman, McNealy broke out majorly his sophomore year by winning six times and capturing the Haskins Award as college golf’s player of the year. He went on to win 11 individual titles for the Cardinal, tying Tiger Woods and Patrick Rodgers for the program record.
McNealy recalled that sophomore season when Woods came to visit campus for three days.
“He didn’t do anything drastically different than what I was doing at that time; he just did it better,” McNealy said, “and he was doing what he was doing better than anybody else. He worked harder, he was more focused, more efficient and got more out of what he was doing.”
So, that’s why when McNealy returned to Stanford earlier this week before teeing it up at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, he told the current crop of Cardinal: “Nobody goes to Stanford to be mediocre, so when you show up, you want to work and you want to do the best.”
“I really, really wanted to win a national championship with the team when I was there, and we…
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