Commentary: Thomas Curry leads loaded Arkansas men's golf lineup

Don’t look now but Arkansas has turned into a golf school. I never could have imagined that growing up in Little Rock in the 1960s.

I played mostly at War Memorial Park a few blocks from home. It’s all I knew about golf as a teenager. The now grown-over goat ranch next to the football stadium cost $6 to play after 2 p.m.

My older brother Butch told me as I finished grade school hitting golf balls with a sawed-off club, the game of golf is wide open for the taking in Arkansas. There just weren’t that many quality courses and seldom were the junior ranks crowded by more than a couple phenoms.

It was an easy decision to quit basketball, football and baseball to concentrate on golf. It paid for a…