OAKMONT, Pa. – As Harrison Ott waited out a nearly four-hour weather delay Tuesday afternoon inside Oakmont’s clubhouse, his phone kept buzzing. It was his Vanderbilt team group chat.
Ott never unlocked his screen, but he did see a few messages illuminate briefly.
Good playing, Cole!
Nice round, Gordon!
“I told my caddie that I didn’t want to know where I stood or where anyone stood,” Ott explained.
Two weeks earlier, Ott opened the Western Amateur in 68, but he got too caught up in the leaderboard and ended up missing the 36-hole cut.