STILLWATER — Not long after Alan Bratton had been hired as Oklahoma State's men's golf coach, he received a call from a friend at Ohio State.
“My first week on the job, he called me and said, ‘Hey, there's a boy in Norway you need to go see,'” Bratton said.
That player was Kristoffer Ventura, the lone senior in the top-seeded Cowboys' starting lineup as they begin their pursuit of the NCAA men's golf championship Friday on their home course of Karsten Creek Golf Club.
“I went over to watch him play a tournament in Scotland, and eventually we were fortunate enough to convince him to come to Oklahoma State,” Bratton said.