12 Things You Didn’t Know About Sahith Theegala
1. Theegala was born in Orange, California, on the 4th of December 1997.
2. He graduated from Diamond Bar High School in California which is the same school that produced Kevin Na (opens in new tab). Other notable alums from the school include Major League Baseball’s Jim Edmonds, football’s Alex Morgan and the NBA’s Keith Van Horn.
3. Theegala went to Pepperdine University in California where he studied Sports Administration. He graduated in 2020 and also turned professional in the same year.
4. Whilst at Pepperdine, Theegala was named as a three-time All American and won the 2020 Haskins Award and the Ben Hogan Award in the same year.
The Haskins Award is presented annually by the Haskins Commission to honor the most outstanding collegiate golfer in the United States.
The Ben Hogan Award is an annual prize given by Friends of Golf and the Golf Coaches Association of America, since 1990, to the best college golf player in the United States.
5. He has said his dream fourball would be Tiger Woods (opens in new tab), his coach Michael Beard from Pepperdine, and his Dad, who doesn’t know how to play golf but taught the game to Sahith.
6. One of his hobbies away from the golf course is chess. Speaking to the PGA Tour Theegala said;
“I learned chess when I was a young kid, but I didn’t play for 10 years in between there. I did Chess Masters in elementary school. But after that, one of the freshmen that came in in 2019, his name is Derek, he was like I play chess; do you want to play? I was like, ‘Yeah, sure,’ and I thought I’d beat him easily. But he destroyed me, so he kind of got me back into chess, and that happened to be the year I injured my wrist too, so I wasn’t able to play any sports, so I was sitting indoors all day just trying to get better at chess.”
7. He acknowledges his father as the reason he got into golf. In the same interview with the PGA Tour he said;
“It’s definitely my father. We weren’t in the greatest financial situation when I was a kid. My dad was the first one…
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