The text messages kept coming until David Berganio Jr. stopped counting, somewhere around 100, all wanting to celebrate his small role in an unlikely victory.
Berganio didn't win the Rocket Mortgage Classic.
He didn't even play.
In fact, he didn't know anything about Nate Lashley, the last player to get in the tournament when Berganio chose to withdraw.
It was only after Berganio returned home from Detroit that he heard Lashley opened with a 63 and that both were Arizona Wildcats, separated by a generation and a different variety of hard times.
"I texted my coach (Rick LaRose) and said, 'Who is this kid from Arizona?