133. Brooke Matthews: Home-Grown Star

The Hog Pod with Bo Mattingly

Sport & Story

Arkansas, Hogs, Sports, Razorbacks

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

As easy as she makes things look on the golf course, you’d think Brooke Matthews was always destined for greatness. But it wasn’t always that way. In fact, growing up as a multi-sport athlete, golf was more of an afterthought. But once she decided to focus her full attention on the golf course, the Rogers native starting winning junior events, and caught the eye of her home-state Razorbacks. And while playing for Arkansas was a dream for Brooke, things didn’t go as expected in the beginning. On a roster loaded with future pros, she didn’t qualify for a single tournament as a freshman. And so, Brooke made the decision to redshirt. That redshirt year and decision to take the more challenging road has paid off. She’s won four individual titles since, represented the U.S. in the Curtis Cup, and played in the Augusta National Women’s Amateur. And along the way, she shattered the 54-hole NCAA scoring record by a whopping six shots. She's kinda a big deal. And she has big dreams of a future in golf. But none of it would’ve happened without hard work and a refusal to take the easy way out.

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0:00.0	I was just felt like I was in over my head and I was like oh my gosh like what am I doing here
0:06.8	How did I get on this team like maybe they think I'm better than I actually am it was so hard so hard and it was the battle every day of,
0:16.2	you know, I'm getting my butt kicked in the gym,
0:18.2	I'm getting my butt kicked on the golf course,
0:20.0	like everyone like has a 4-0,
0:21.6	and I'm like, oh my g gosh like so many thoughts of I don't belong here Welcome into the Hog Pot. I'm Bo Mattingly and this episode is made possible by our friends at First Security Bank, Sarazan Resort, Abilita Maria, and South
0:46.4	by Northwest Hospitality.
0:50.6	As easy as she makes things look on the golf course, you'd think Brooke Matthews was always destined for greatness.
0:57.0	But it wasn't always that way.
0:59.0	In fact, growing up as a multi-sport athlete, golf was more of an afterthought. But once she started giving it her full
1:05.7	attention, the Rogers native started winning junior events and the Arkansas Razorbacks noticed.
1:12.4	When I said I put all my eggs in one basket, like and the Arkansas razor backs noticed.
1:12.6	When I said I put all my eggs in one basket,
1:14.9	like I put all my eggs in one basket.
1:17.8	I just really wanted to go to Arkansas
1:20.0	and I got offered and like I immediately committed. I like I don't care the offer like I just
1:24.0	this is where I want to go. And while playing at Arkansas was a dream for Brooke it's been a tough
1:30.0	climb on a roster loaded with future pros, she didn't qualify for a single tournament
1:36.0	as a freshman. So after talking to her coach, she decided the red shirt.
1:41.8	I remember she always told me like you chose hard.
1:44.5	You could have gone to some school where you could have played every week
1:48.1	and then kind of been average kind of forever.
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