Cooking up a winning recipe for the Phoenix Open

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTVvVnDP8EU
(Video above features Chance Cozby before the 2019 WM Phoenix Open)
When your day job is running the most fun tournament on the PGA Tour, what do you do to relax? For Chance Cozby, the answer is to start one of the most fun cooking accounts on social media.

Chance Cozby in front of the grill Photo: Courtesy Chance Cozby

Cozby is the executive director of the Thunderbirds, who put on the WM Phoenix Open each year, and he’s become a celebrity away from the golf course with his 3piecesofpecan accounts on TikTok and Instagram.

The accounts feature videos of Cozby preparing quick and easy meals inspired from a lifetime of cooking. Cozby, whose brother Cary is the head pro at Southern Hills, grew up in Oklahoma watching his mom in the kitchen and his dad on the grill, so the videos show everything from his mother’s chicken marsala recipe to briskets cooked just right using only “three pieces of pecan” as a guide, as his dad taught him. Each video concludes with Cozby sampling the food a...