DUBLIN, Ohio — Bo Van Pelt experienced his first big disappointment in golf at Muirfield Village.
"I remember I tried to get Greg Norman's autograph," Van Pelt said. "He was No. 1 in the world, and I couldn't get it. And I said something not very nice to him. That was my buddies' fault. They said I would say anything, but I did. I was 13, trying to impress. He was the only autograph I really wanted."
Van Pelt grew up across the state line in Indiana, and his father let him play hooky from school from the time he was 10 so he could watch the best in the world on the course Jack Nicklaus built.