When local golfers Matt Johnson of Rehobeth and Heath West of Dothan leave for Kiawah Island, S.C., on Wednesday morning, they will travel with high hopes for competing well in
There’s a good chance West’s golf attire will be a little more appropriate than when the two teed it up and finished runner-up in the qualifier at Willow Point Golf and Country Club in Alexander City back in October under cold conditions back in October.
People are also reading… West and Johnson, both now in their early 40s, were once golfers on the college level, West at LSU and Johnson at Troy. They’ve teamed together over the years – which included winning the State Four-Ball tournament in 2017 – but haven’t had a chance to compete as a team as much in recent years.
But when they came together for the qualifier, things started clicking at the most important times after a somewhat shaky beginning. “It got to where he could punch the ball out. I’m in the middle of the fairway and I hit one to 5 feet. Well, Matt punches out to the front of the green and has like a 60-foot chip. He proceeds to make the chip.
“We waited around for two, two-and-a-half hours, and we kept seeing 6-unders and 5-unders and just waiting to get bumped,” Johnson said. “Then, two or three groups left, I was like, ‘We might want to go stretch .’
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