Sahith Theegala is currently ranked 36th on the OWGR
Sahith Theegala eyed the target, shook his head, and frowned.
He was working on his 15-footers, and it was going poorly.
“This is bad,” he said. “It is not acceptable.”
In khaki shorts, a salmon-colored T-shirt (Make par, not war it read) and Nike low-tops, Theegala was at a public basketball court in Houston for a photo shoot that was over. It was dusk, and his car, a BMW M5 Competition in arctic frozen grey, sat in the parking lot.
Theegala, a Kobe Bryant acolyte, is not one to accept mediocrity, and so, with his shot having disappointed him while the cameras were rolling, he vowed to make 10 straight free throws.
“Now you know what my friends put up with,” Theegala said.
His friends, who were already waiting for him at dinner.
Uncompromising hard work has yielded seven top-10 finishes in Theegala’s sophomore season on the PGA TOUR. At last week’s FedEx St. Jude Championship, he shot a final-round 66 to finish T13. Up to 31st in the FedExCup going into the BMW Championship outside Chicago, he’s oh so close to making the 30-man TOUR Championship for the second year in a row.
If you know much about Theegala, it’s probably for his stellar play and agonizing finish at the last year’s WM Phoenix Open, which announced him as a force. After he bogeyed the drivable 17th hole and missed a playoff by one, he melted into the arms of his mom, Karuna, and dad, Muralidhar. The Netflix docuseries “Full Swing” was there to capture it all. Even his little brother, Sahan, who goes to Seton Hall, was there; Theegala estimates friends and family numbered 60-65.
You can read the full story by Cameron Morfit, PGATOUR.com here
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