Local Iowa golfer Zach Johnson (story here in Tom Kirkendall’s blog Houston’s Clear Thinkers) won the Masters down in Augusta Georgia in condition described as a golf course on steroids.  Ah, but let it be revealed that Johnson was not as concerned about as his golf game as he was about finding a new basketball coach for the Iowa Hawkeyes last week.

Steve Alford fled the Hawkeye coaching position for New Mexico
because he wanted to coach at a football school.  Last week about this
time, found Iowa AD Gary Barta furiously looking at one coach after another

— Dana Altman, Rick Majerus, and reportedly others.

From HawkeyeReport Editor Tom Kakert comes this story:

It’s kind of funny that one week ago today, Zach called me as he

was driving into The Masters from a weekend in Florida working on his
game. He was more concerned about who the new basketball coach was
going to be.:)  Honestly, he felt pretty good about his chances,
but I don’t think in his wildest dreams did he see this one happening.
Hopefully, I will hear from him tonight, but I bet he has some
celebrating to do tonight.

Iowa named Todd Lickliter
the new basketball coach last  Monday/Tuesday.  That apparently
pacified Hawk bball fan Johnson, who went on to shoot the rounds of his
life and hitch up the green jacket.

Johnson attended Drake Univerity in Des Moines, apparently not given a golf scholarship by the now departed Iowa golf coach.  Iowa could have been a ‘golf school’.