Post by The Cats on Sept 25, 2019 10:54:13 GMT -5
As the Catamount program prepared to unveil its 2019-2020 schedule, head coach Tim Eckberg already had plans to alter the name associated with the team’s home tournament – the Hummingbird Intercollegiate – held at the beautiful Country Club of Sapphire Valley just 30 miles from the Cullowhee campus to honor one of the program’s most decorated former student-athletes.
And then, it happened.
With a partisan crowd looking on in the 51st start of his professional career, Poston gave Western Carolina its first PGA Tour victory, doing it in typical J.T. Poston fashion – humbly but assertively, matching records along the way. The Hickory, N.C., native became the first player since the great Lee Trevino in 1974 to win a 72-hole stroke-play event on tour without carding a bogey-or-worse, winning the Wyndham Championship.
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