Reports out of Los Angeles Thursday confirmed what had already been rumored around northern Mississippi — Braden Thornberry, defending NCAA men's golf champion, will be returning for his junior year at Ole Miss. This is good.
And it's for good reason.
Thornberry set a goal to be legendary this week entering the US Amateur Championship at Riviera Country Club — because of what he had already achieved.
He was trying to join the likes of Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Jack Nicklaus and Ryan Moore as the only men to have won the NCAA individual golf championship and the US Amateur.