Let Them Play Classic A Win For Women’s Golf

Sam "Riggs" Bozoian (purple shirt) with the Quinnipiac University team at the Let Them Play Classic. Photo: Courtesy Zach Stenger

Never has the name of a golf course so accurately described the tournament it held.

Sam “Riggs” Bozoian was on his way to Whirlwind Golf Club in Chandler, Arizona, this past Wednesday when he happily answered another media request – there had been dozens – asking him to put into words what the last week of his life had been like.

Maybe “whirlwind” is a bit too on the nose, but it’s hard to go with anything else. Not with how emotional the experience has been.

“I’ve been trying hard not to cry all week,” Bozoian told Global Golf Post. “I’ve got sunglasses, so maybe I can hide it … I don’t want people to be shocked when I’m bawling my eyes out and I’m not even playing in the event.”

Bozoian, the leading golf voice of the popular Barstool Sports outlet, had watched in horror along with many others in the golf world when the NCAA Women’s Baton Rouge Regional was canceled on May 12 without a singl...