Tommy Mace is out on a golf course in Tampa playing a round of golf with his dad to celebrate Frank Mace’s birthday. I only know this because he interjects before a question and tells me he needs to tee off. Mace puts the phone down and I hear the familiar sound of a driver hitting a ball. When he comes back I joke that it sounded like a hook.
“Yeah, definitely hooked that into the trees,” Mace confirmed.
Sounds like a slider off the plate, ball four. Kevin O’Sullivan wouldn’t be happy about that.
Mace, like thousands of other spring sport athletes, had his season ended unceremoniously by COVID-19.