COLUMBIA, Mo. — Three days before he reports for his fourth Missouri football preseason camp, quarterback Brady Cook sank a hole-in-one Thursday at Golf Club of Wentzville, using his pitching wedge to ace the 137-yard, par-3 second hole.
Perhaps it was a sign of good things to come.
When practices kick off Monday, Cook enters camp as Eli Drinkwitz’s incumbent quarterback but will have to hold off a cast of contenders for the team’s most intriguing preseason competition. Drinkwitz, who named Cook his starter a week into camp last August, will let the battle linger later this year if a clear starter doesn’t emerge.