Mark O’Meara.
The year that I won with my father here as my amateur partner, I played with my dad all four days and I was fortunate to win the AT&T Pebble Beach playing alongside my dad, which is rare in any major sport. I remember the next week my father called me and he goes, ‘Mark, I just got my Golf World in the mail and you’re on the cover, Prince of Pebble.’
He goes, ‘I’m looking over there and I see you played well and you won 180 grand’ or whatever it was back then. But he goes, ‘I also noticed in this other category over here Team O’Meara-O’Meara won $8,800. So I’m just wondering when are you going to send me my check for $4,400?’
I told my father, ‘Dad, listen, you’re an amateur, you can’t accept prize money.’ He goes ‘No, no, I’m going to turn pro, just send me the $4,400.’ So we had a great banter back and forth.
