Hal Sutton - "Will Anyone Remember #43?" SHORT TRACK

Intro Music 0:07

Straight down the middle. It went straight down the middle.

Mike Gonzalez 0:13

Then it started to other than Houston, where there's some other big programs after you as well.

SPEAKER_00 0:19

Yeah, Wake Forest was after me. Yeah, there was LSU wanted me to come, Arkansas. Actually, there were there were a lot. I can't even recall most of them. And I narrowed it down to Houston. And uh my dad kept wanting me to play at Sentenary because that was at home. And uh never will forget. We came down here to Houston, and that's when I first met Jackie Burke. And I played golf with Keith Fergus at Champions, you know, and then on Saturday night, uh I went to Hawaii's Pavilion, and that's back when uh uh Slam and Jamma uh, you know, the basketball team was you know, unbelievable. And so after the game that night, Coach Williams came up to me and he said, Hal, he said, I want to take you in the Houston Library tomorrow morning. I got something in there I want to show you. And I thought to myself, I looked over at him and I said, Coach Williams, I said, I really had no intentions of going to the University of Houston's library while I was down here. He said, No, but he said, You need to see what I'm gonna show you. So he picked me up the next morning and we went into the library and we start walking around, and all the portraits of all the first team All-Americans at University of Houston was on the wall, and we walked around and looked at all of them. There was forty-two at the time. And uh he looked up there and he said, Look at that, Al. He said, There is where number 43 is gonna be. He said, You could be number 43. I'll never forget that as long as I live. Coach Williams was a great recruiter. He recruited, you know, that's he he really didn't know a whole lot about golf. He just recruited people that did know a whole lot about golf. And uh I got in the car and my dad said, So what do you think? I said, Well, I really liked it until we just made that trip into the library. My dad is like, you know, I was a pretty decent student, you know. My dad was like, Well, what was wrong with going in the library? I said, Well, so let me ask you a question, Daddy. I said, Do you think anybody is gonna remember number 43? And my dad said, What do you mean? I said, Well, he showed me all the all-Americans, and I said, there's a place for the 43rd first team All-American, which he said I could be that guy. I said, you know, do you think anybody's gonna remember that? And my dad said, No, I don't think anybody's gonna remember number 43, but he said, I think you'd be the first first team All-American ever at Sentenary, and everybody always remembers a guy that did it first. So there it was decided where I was gonna go to school. He he sucked me in right then. And that was music to his ears, you know. He that's what he wanted me to do. Then it started.

Mike Gonzalez 3:04

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Intro Music 3:28

It went smack down the fairway. When it started, it's like just smacked off line. Mac headed as long as you're still in the state, you're okay. When it straight down the middle squad away.