Golf Channel · Feb 12, 2022
Sahith Theegala feeds off cheers, leads WM Phoenix Open at halfway point
If you didn’t know any better, you’d think this week’s WM Phoenix Open was a home game for Sahith Theegala.
Only the 24-year-old Theegala isn’t from Scottsdale, Arizona, but rather Chino Hills, California. He played collegiately at Pepperdine, is a huge Los Angeles Lakers fan, and now lives back home with his parents in SoCal as he looks for a place of his own. He has no connection whatsoever to this tournament, other than the fact that he graciously received a sponsor exemption a couple of weeks ago.
But he arguably has one of loudest galleries, which, at “The People’s Open,” is saying something.