Shaun Whisler

Dan Hurley should be banned from coaching. He got away with once again making contact with an official. When are we gonna hold him accountable for his actions?

Gary Woodland is the anti-Tiger Woods in every possible way. Allow me to explain why. Gary Woodland just won the Houston Open by five shots. Two and a half years ago, doctors cut a baseball-sized hole in his skull to remove a brain lesion. He spent two nights in the ICU. There was a real chance he would wake up paralyzed. This is the best comeback story in golf right now and it's not even close. The full story behind today is insane. In 2019, Gary Woodland won the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach. He finished 13-under and beat Brooks Koepka by three strokes. At that point, Woodland had four PGA Tour wins including a major, and was ranked 12th in the world. Then everything slowly fell apart. After the 2023 Masters, Woodland became consumed by fear. Not regular nerves. Actual, debilitating terror. He was afraid he was going to die. Afraid something was going to happen to his kids. Afraid of falling to his death in his sleep. At the Memorial Tournament in June 2023, he woke up in his hotel room and clung to the mattress for an hour. He was convinced that if he let go, he would fall. His hands were trembling. He had no appetite. Spasms would jolt him awake at night. He was losing focus over putts. Forgetting what club he was holding mid-swing. An MRI finally revealed the cause. A lesion was growing on his brain. It was pressing directly on the part of his brain that controls fear and anxiety. Think about that. The thing responsible for every irrational terror he was experiencing had a physical, medical explanation. His brain was literally being pressed into a constant state of fear. In September 2023, Woodland had a craniotomy. Surgeons removed as much of the lesion as they could, roughly half, because it was pressed against the optic tract of his left eye. They cut off blood supply to the rest to try to stop it from growing. He walked out of the hospital two days later. Started putting again two days after that. He came back to the PGA Tour in January 2024 at the Sony Open. But he was nowhere near the same player. In 26 starts during 2024, he had three top-25 finishes. His best was a tie for ninth at the Shriners Children's Open. For a former U.S. Open champion, those are survival numbers. And nobody knew the full extent of what he was dealing with. Because on top of the brain surgery and the recovery, Woodland had been diagnosed with PTSD. He kept it hidden for over a year. He described being hypervigilant on the course. A walking scorer once got too close from behind and startled him so badly that his vision went blurry and he forgot where he was. He would go into bathrooms between holes and cry. He would break down in the scoring trailer after rounds. He would sprint to his car in the parking lot just to hide it from everyone. He said he felt like he was living a lie. Spending so much energy pretending to be okay that he had nothing left for the actual golf. On March 9, three weeks before this Houston Open, Woodland finally told the truth publicly. He sat down with Golf Channel's Rex Hoggard and revealed everything. The PTSD. The crying. The fear. All of it. He said after that interview it felt like a thousand pounds had been lifted off his back. Then he showed up at Memorial Park. He opened with a 64. Then a 63. Then a 65. Then a 67 on Sunday to close it out. 259 total. A tournament record. 21-under par. Five strokes clear of Nicolai Højgaard. Wire to wire. Led every single round. His first win since the 2019 U.S. Open. Nearly seven years between victories. Brain surgery, PTSD, two years of hiding in bathrooms between holes, and a thousand pounds of weight he was carrying that nobody could see. This is a guy who was a basketball player first. He grew up in Topeka, Kansas, won state basketball titles at Shawnee Heights High School, and played a year of college basketball at Washburn before he realized golf was his future. He won the Courage Award from the PGA Tour in 2025. The seventh player to ever receive it. And now, at 41 years old, with titanium plates holding his skull together, he walked into Memorial Park three weeks after telling the world the truth about what he had been going through and played the best golf of the entire field for four straight days. The full breakdown of Woodland's career, the surgery, the PTSD, and how he got to this point is here: itsgame7.com/news/gary-wood… There is a reason this one hits different. Comeback stories in sports usually involve torn ACLs or shoulder surgeries. Things you can see. Things that heal on a timeline. Woodland's comeback was from something that rewired his brain. Something that turned his own mind against him. And the hardest part of his recovery wasn't physical. It was admitting to the people around him that he wasn't okay. Three weeks ago he said the words out loud. Today he won a golf tournament by five shots.

One of the best stories in golf. Happy to be apart of it today. Congrats Gary 🤝💪

@BreidenFehoko Clear you’re sports illiterate

People criticizing Bill Self and the Hawks for winning a tourney game against another tourney team can go suck a pickle. Either spoiled bandwagon fans or KU haters. Either way, go goon somewhere else. Rock Freaking Chalk!!! On to Sunday.

@JayhawkApoth Maybe learn a little about ball and the team you’re talking about before spouting this nonsensical take.

Kohl Rosario and Jayden Dawson not seeing the floor makes me laugh at all the people that think Bill Self still has it. Darryn Peterson has bailed this terrible offense out over and over tonight. Self recruits 2 shooters a year just to sit on the bench all season. Hilarious.

@RoyalsPlsWin Ummm, you obviously do not know ball. lol.

bill self refused to give the ball to darryn petersons hands in the clutch i’m so fucking sick of this whatever dude

KU can’t play soft like this when up 26. Put your dang foot on their throats.

@M_Vernon lol

Bill Self is getting cooked by this WAC coaching jabroni

And Kansas turns into soft Kansas just like that

@KU_Football @CoachLeipold @jameer_moore @Josh_Galbreath1 Good guys right there.

Special thanks to @jameer_moore and @Josh_Galbreath1 for volunteering this weekend at the 21st Annual Ms. Wheelchair Kansas! #RockChalk

1000000% yes. Rock Freaking Chalk!

@adamg1224 @BryBryStrick You just sound ignorant tweeting this buddy. Look at the cold hard facts, their record doesn’t really reflect their talent. I’m not sure why you’re out here name calling like a school yard bully when you’re the goon who can’t read the facts. Check yourself there fella.

If a 31-1 team doesn’t make the 64 team bracket, we’ve officially lost college basketball forever. Don’t let the loser nerds win. They’re 31-1. They shouldn’t even sniff the first four let alone miss the dance. Stop listening to virgins

@Eddielinks_ Oh Eddie, you potato.

Flory Bidunga believed Bill Self’s lies, and it prolonged his career

Melvin Council with probably the greatest senior night speech of all time. Worth watching every second. #kubball

@cdotharrison I still rather be Kansas Jayhawks than the Missouri Tigers.

Losing at a 15-14 team in March is misery so I feel right at home.

@RockChalkBlog I didn’t realize you knew anything about basketball based on your previous posts.

Jacque waited too long to put Peterson back out there.

@cdotharrison Oh C Dot.. stick to your misery takes

That Flory missed bunny killed the vibes.

@JD_RCJH Bandwagon. Do us a favor and don’t root for us in the tournament.

that’s game

Really @KUAthletics fans have a heart attack EVERY SINGLE GAME.