Colt Ford’s Journey From Golf To Music

LAKE BUENA VISTA, FLORIDA | He certainly doesn’t strike you as a guy with an alias. When you first meet Jason Brown, aka Colt Ford, you can’t imagine why he has two names. Nor do you know without a Google search which name his mama gave him and which one he chose. In the age of the internet, aliases are for off-the-grid outlaws. Actors still do it occasionally but not to hide Jewish heritage or immigrant roots anymore. Eric Banadinović became Eric Bana for pronunciation reasons and Olivia Jane Cockburn became Olivia Wilde to give her some writer cred. But even author pseudonyms have become passé. Brown/Ford is about as far from Hollywood as you can get. With a cap and a couple days’ worth of beard, he wouldn't draw a second look in every Flying J and Waffle House in the country. And there’s certainly nothing about chatting with him – he’s quick with a smile and a handshake – that gives a hint about a dual life.

The only people who recognize both Jason Farris Brown and Colt Ford as the same guy are deep-in-the-weeds golf fans who al...