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.”
