[Hulk01]

Everyone—me included—has beenheralding #10 Stanford’s win as a startling achievement.  

Everyone—me included—missed something.

Stanford fared badly in the fall,
ending up ranked outside the top 25 and leading to the conclusion:
Stanford was mediocre.

But everyone missed something—actually, someone:
Henry Shimp.
Shimp didn’t play in the fall. 
When he joined the team in the spring,
he promptly fired off five 68’s and a 69 among his first fifteen rounds,
and still another 68 in the NCAA regional. 
Doing this for a golf team that already had Brandon Wu and Isaiah Salinda,
plus the 33rd ranked collegian, Daniel Snyder, was brobdingnagian.  

Granted, even with Shimp Stanford wasn’t Oklahoma State. 
But the Cardinal were at least as good as Texas, Vanderbilt, and Wake Forest,
as they proved.

[Hulk01]

Everyone—me included—has beenheralding #10 Stanford’s win as a startling achievement.  

Everyone—me included—missed something.

Stanford fared badly in the fall,
ending up ranked outside the top 25 and leading to the conclusion:
Stanford was mediocre.

But everyone missed something—actually, someone:
Henry Shimp.
Shimp didn’t play in the fall. 
When he joined the team in the spring,
he promptly fired off five 68’s and a 69 among his first fifteen rounds,
and still another 68 in the NCAA regional. 
Doing this for a golf team that already had Brandon Wu and Isaiah Salinda,
plus the 33rd ranked collegian, Daniel Snyder, was brobdingnagian.  

Granted, even with Shimp Stanford wasn’t Oklahoma State. 
But the Cardinal were at least as good as Texas, Vanderbilt, and Wake Forest,
as they proved.