Michael La Sasso started his college golf career at his hometown school, North Carolina State. He played for the Wolfpack as a freshman and then decided to leave the familiar confines of Raleigh and transferred to Mississippi for the 2023-24 season.<\/p>\n
And from what La Sasso had to say about the options available for a Rebels athlete wanting to kick it around on a non-competitive day, it had the sound of golfer\u2019s heaven.<\/p>\n
The Ole Miss Golf Course is located a few miles off campus. It opened in 1973 with a design by Dr. Cary Middlecoff. He was the golfing legend of the 1940s and \u201950s who gave up the pursuit of dentistry to win a Masters, two U.S. Opens and 40 total pro tournaments.<\/p>\n
There is also the Country Club of Oxford, reopened in 1949 after the military used the land during World War II. And down the road in West Point, Miss., is the Old Waverly complex, with a golf course that has played host to a U.S. Women\u2019s Open.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe can play those courses, and then we have Memphis right around the corner,\u201d La Sasso said. \u201cWe have a lot of great places to play.\u201d<\/p>\n
There are also fall and spring schedules filled with adventures, including what has been an annual trip in early March to the Cabo Collegiate in Mexico.<\/p>\n
\u201cCabo is a very nice place to play golf,\u201d La Sasso said Saturday. \u201cI\u2019m very grateful we get to play in that event every year, I still think the memories this time were pretty good.\u201d<\/p>\n
La Sasso had to throw that \u201cstill\u201d in there due to an event that took place when members of the Ole Miss traveling party were enjoying some beach time. The tide had descended a while earlier. La Sasso had walked to get towels for a couple of teammates. And in the brush, he stepped on a black sea urchin that had landed there during high tide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael La Sasso started his college golf career at his hometown school, North Carolina State. He played for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-40318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}