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When Brandon Matthews won the Astara Golf Championship in Bogota, Colombia on February 13, he blinked back tears and wiped his eyes as he thought about making a phone call to his father back home in POn the verge of locking up his PGA Tour card, Brandon Matthews gets dress rehearsal at Wells Fargo Championshipennsylvania.
“He’s my best friend in the world,” Matthews said. “What he’s done for me, been there for me through thick and thin, the way he’s raised me, God, I can’t wait to go see him.”
As for the phone call that day? “We ‘bleeping’ did it was the actual first words,” Matthews recounted during a pre-tournament press conference ahead of the PGA Tour’s Wells Fargo Championship, where he is competing this week on a sponsor’s exemption. “To go back and look at all the hard work and the dedication my father put in for me, the sacrifices that he has made to get me to where I am, it’s, you know, it goes without saying how special he is to me.”
The 27-year-old Temple alum enters the week ranked No. 4 on the Korn Ferry Tour Points List, with the Top 25 earning a PGA Tour card for next season. Matthews credited his dad for getting him into the game and creating a long-bomber’s mentality that has become his signature.
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“The 15th hole at my home club, Emanon (Country Club in Falls, Pennsylvania), has a little lake to cover and he used to sit me on the women’s tee when I was four, five years old and it was probably 60 yards to cover it,” Matthews explained. “From there, as soon as I got it over, he moved me back a tee and then did the same thing, as soon as I got it over from the next tee back, move back a tee. So, from a very young age I was just trying to hit it as hard as I can, so I developed power before I developed technique. So I think that was one of the main reasons why I hit it so far, because I just learned it at an early age, hit it as hard as…
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