PARAMUS, N.J. – Drop Sam Bennett in any sports arena and he’ll find a way to excel. He played four sports at Madisonville (Texas) High School, where he was an All-District shooting guard on the basketball hardwood, defensive specialist on the baseball diamond and district champion on the tennis court.
But it’s on the golf course where he’s always performed best. Even during those early years as a kid in Madisonville, a small town about two hours north of Houston, where Bennett learned the game on a public nine-hole layout that barely measured 3,300 yards from the tips.