TULSA, Okla. — The 17-year-old kid from Texas wanted more than just a trophy that day in Tulsa.
Will Zalatoris won the Trans-Mississippi Championship at Southern Hills in 2014. It was, more or less, by default. Thunderstorms wiped out the final two days of the tournament and Zalatoris, in first before the weather turned, was named victor.
He said, according to the tournament’s website, that he’d have rather kept playing. He “wanted the experience of playing under pressure” with the hope of it one day benefiting him on the PGA Tour.
