Nick Saban’s putting coach is the newest winner on the PGA Tour. Alabama golfer Nick Dunlap became the first amateur to win a PGA Tour event since Phil Mickelson in 1991 when he captured the American Express on Sunday.
During television coverage of the final round, the former Alabama football coach called in from Jupiter, Florida, and said Dunlap had been giving him putting pointers.
“He’s a great teacher,” Saban said. “I’m just not very coachable. I think I three-putted nine times the other day. We need work.”
“He’s got great work ethic, he’s a great person, pays attention to detail,” Saban said. “I sat and watched on one of those machines that tells you how your ball’s spinning and all that one day, and he was hitting drivers. He must have hit a hundred of them and just checking the spin on the ball, so he’s really a dedicated guy. He’s a hard worker.
“And he’s got the right disposition to play. He doesn’t seem to get flustered about anything, which golf’s kind a metaphor for life, so you got to be able to play the next shot whether you’re in the hazard, whether you hit a good one. You got to have the right disposition to play it, and I certainly think he has it.”
During television coverage of the final round, the former Alabama football coach called in from Jupiter, Florida, and said Dunlap had been giving him putting pointers.
“He’s a great teacher,” Saban said. “I’m just not very coachable. I think I three-putted nine times the other day. We need work.”
“He’s got great work ethic, he’s a great person, pays attention to detail,” Saban said. “I sat and watched on one of those machines that tells you how your ball’s spinning and all that one day, and he was hitting drivers. He must have hit a hundred of them and just checking the spin on the ball, so he’s really a dedicated guy. He’s a hard worker.
“And he’s got the right disposition to play. He doesn’t seem to get flustered about anything, which golf’s kind a metaphor for life, so you got to be able to play the next shot whether you’re in the hazard, whether you hit a good one. You got to have the right disposition to play it, and I certainly think he has it.”
