As Freshman Clark van Gaalen went from raw talent to Oklahoma’s power on NCAAS

Carlsbad, California – During the third section of Oklahoma at Inverness InterCollegiate, the opener for the fall last September, Coaches Ryan Hybl and Jonathan Moore agreed that they had something special in Bruco Clark Van Gaalen.

“We have one of the best freshmen in the country,” Hybl said, remembering that conversation. “It will only be a process.”

Van Gaalen, Uber-Talented and Ultra-fast, but also super raw, tied up for 28. That week, but he would not succeed in making an initial lineup in each of the next seven occasions Oklahoma. It is three times three times the individual and limited the fall of the runners in Ka’anapali classics in Hawaii. But until he learned to diversify his flight with a high ball, play smarter spots and better overturn him after the middle spring switch, which began to release his potential.

“I remember the coach of HYBL to tell him earlier this spring,” you will play for this national championship team. You will be there, “said the older wood is good, Van Gaalen’s roommates for the last events.

It’s not just here; Leads before before before this NCAA championship.

Van Gaalen shot 1-Mank 71 Sunday in the final round on Sunday in the fourth in 5, and that is the big reason the game last year, sitting third in 3 below, 15 shots within the current interruption for the first eight.

“He is not one of those guys who chased at the high level of Ajgas the entire career, so he had a great learning curve,” Hybl said. “And that’s why the school was so good for him, because he was around good full-time players and we managed to put in some serious business, and that work is shown. … The recordings he affects and some things, it’s amazing.”

Van Gaalen can push the 200 mph of speeds of the ball if he wants. HYBL compares it to the former winner of the Haskins Chris Gottere, just striking him to the moon and is significantly less afforded. When it comes to growth this season, no one has done bigger steps, on and out of course and in the weight room, but out of Gaalen.

He forced the Collegial Valspar at the end of March and next week tied to the sixth-day interdess, who won Oklahoma and where Hybl started walking with Van Gaalen; He has left his side since. Van Gaalen recently was second in the regional NCAA Amherst.

“It was the comfort he believed in me,” said Van Gaalen for Hybl, “so I just believed that if I could see the advantage in the end.”

Goodman was in a group just behind Van Gaalen to open on Friday at La Costau. When he arrived in the range to warm up, the freshman was already in half a half heating and not hit him very well.

“You could feel it; he was super nervous,” Goodman said. “But man, he went out of the gate and calmed down and played a big round.”

Van Gaalen filmed 4 below and has yet to shoot compared to a couple of this week. He was in danger of losing that array on his back nine on Sunday, playing the first five holes in 4, with double Bogey on a par-4 14. After his other shot of the ballooned and found the stream. But Van Gaalen does not appear, and on a PAR-4 15, a bird hole, she flown 60 degrees of 98 meters, cutting him to the wind and flung to the eagle to return to red numbers. Van Gaalen may be most proud of the up and down pair at par-4 17, where he drove him into weed.

“I led the golf course well,” he said Van Gaalen. “When you’re in trouble, get out of it, take your medicine and move on … and don’t frustrate over stupid things. Big numbers happen when you’re upset.”

And when you add that maturity to physical tools outside Gaalen, you get one of the best freshmen in the country.

Just like Hybl trusted all the time.