Alabama men’s golf coach Jay Seawell got plenty of TV time on Sunday as he waited by the 18th green to congratulate his former player Lee Hodges as he closed out a dominant performance to win the 3M Open in Blaine, Minnesota by seven strokes. But Seawell wasn’t the only Alabama coach who was watching.
Crimson Tide football coach Nick Saban is a golfer in his spare time, who has played in numerous PGA Tour pro-ams over the years and his love of the game previously has been chronicled in the pages of Golfweek. Saban called Seawell, who handed the phone to Hodges and congratulated him on his maiden victory in his 65th career start on the Tour. Hodges proceeded to call the 71-year-old Saban, who has won seven national titles as a head coach, the most in college football history, “dude,” “man” and “bud.”
