At U.S. Open, college students getting crash course in golf-career development

SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. | Everybody as ASU (Alabama State University) knows — how do we say this in a gentle way? — that Osiregbeme Egbakhumeh is a little . . . different. Consider his get-to-know-me info sheet on the ASU golf team’s website. When asked for his favorite class, the dude listed . . . Pre-Calculus! “Yes, they made fun of me,” Osime, said Tuesday afternoon in a phone interview, speaking of his fellow Hornets. He is 20, a native Nigerian, a rising junior at Alabama State and an intern in an ongoing 10-day USGA internship program called Pathways Discover, which gives college students from all walks of life, and sometimes unexpected ones, a crash course in this-is-how-we-do-it USGA fun. (This training comes in the wake of the initiation of Pathways Launch, which kicked off at the U.S. Women’s Open at Riviera earlier this month with 24 students starting a three-month internship program.) But Osime is likely to have the last laugh here, at the Alabama State campus in Montgomery and way beyond it. For one thing, he’s a computer information systems science major — mad math skills required! Also, Osime’s favorite golfer (in a three-way tie with Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy) is Bryson
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