Excuse Bruce Brockbank if he plays the history card this week, reminding, remembering, pondering. He may have been just a little kid in Provo back in 1981, but he knows all about the time, place and faces of that day at Stanford University’s golf course, back when Jimmy Carter was president and “Raiders of the Last Ark” hit movie theaters.
Brockbank will pilot BYU’s golf team to the NCAA’s golf regional at the Stanford University Course Monday. It’s the setting where, in 1981, the school won its first undisputed and unshared national title.
Thirty-six years ago on this course in Palo Alto, California, the late Karl Tucker coached a squad comprised of Dick Zokol, Keith Clearwater, Rick Fehr, Barry Willardson and Dave DeSantis and led them to a two-stroke win over Oral Roberts.