The Oklahoma State golfing great launches The Scott Verplank Show on our network Tuesday talking to Viktor Hovland.

Scott Verplank, a multiple winner on the PGA Tour and one of the best golfers to ever come out of Oklahoma State, is joining Sellout Crowd with the debut of The Scott Verplank Show on Tuesday. 

Verplank joins our roster, which also includes former Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops, veteran sports writers Berry Tramel and Jenni Carlson and former OSU football All-American Sam Mayes.

“We couldn’t be happier to add Scott Verplank to the mix of stories we are sharing,” Sellout Crowd founder Mike Koehler said. “We continue to build on the success of our brand since we launched last Fall. Scott’s the latest great Oklahoma sports voice we are helping reach our audience.”

Verplank is starting with a bang. His first show on Tuesday features Viktor Hovland, currently ranked 4th in the World Golf Rankings.

Hovland won three events during the 2022-23 PGA season, including last year’s TOUR Championship. 

Hovland and Verplank are among the best players to come through OSU’s tradition-rich golf program. 

“I guess I fell in love with the dream that (OSU golf coach Mike) Holder was selling that we’re going to win, and we’re going to win a lot,” Verplank told Sellout Crowd’s Berry Tramel. “And I guess that fit to what I was looking for. You know, we had a great, great group of players already and I kind of wanted to play against the best players in college golf every single day. So it worked out that way.”

Verplank’s name has been back in the news as one of only a few amateurs to ever win a professional event. Earlier this month, Alabama’s Nick Dunlap won The American Express, the first amateur golfer to win since 1991. In 1985, Verplank won the Western Open as an amateur, the first player to do it in 29 years.

Verplank plans to chat each week with some of the top golfers in the world, starting with a few of his fellow Cowboys, including Rickie Fowler and Charles Howell III.

Follow along with the Scott Verplank show by following Sellout Crowd on YouTube and social media. 

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About Scott Verplank

The newest member of the Sellout Crowd network brings decades of experience in professional golf. He will be speaking with other pros weekly on The Scott Verplank Show. 

Verplank’s first episode, featuring World No. 4 Viktor Hovland, drops Tuesday on selloutcrowd.com and The Sellout Crowd YouTube channel 

Early life

Verplank was born on July 9, 1964, in Dallas, Texas.

College golf

He attended Oklahoma State University and was a standout golfer for the Cowboys. Verplank won the NCAA individual championship in 1986 and earned the Haskins Award as the nation’s top collegiate golfer.

Amateur Achievements

Verplank won the 1984 U.S. Amateur Championship, played at Oak Tree Golf Club. In 1985, as an amateur, he won the Western Open, marking the first amateur victory on the PGA Tour in 29 years. Verplank defeated Jim Thorpe in a playoff at Butler National Golf Club in Oak Brook, Illinois.

Professional Career

• Graduated and turned professional in 1986, utilizing his two-year exemption on the PGA Tour.
• Accumulated five wins on the PGA Tour during his career.
• Represented the United States in the Ryder Cup in 2002 and 2006.
• Received the 2002 Ben Hogan Award from the Golf Writers Association of America for his dedication to golf despite having Type 1 diabetes.
• Achieved a ranking in the top 20 of the Official World Golf Rankings, reaching as high as eleventh in 2001.
• Hit a hole-in-one during the 2006 Ryder Cup, becoming the first American to do so in the competition.
• Won the 1988 Buick Open by two strokes over Doug Tewell. 
• Won the 200 Reno-Tahoe Open and the 2001 Bell Canadian Open. 
• Won the 2007 EDS Byron Nelson Championship, defeating Luke Donald by one stroke.
• As a Dallas native, Verplank called the EDS Byron Nelson Championship “a fifth major,” and also mentioned that “Byron was with me today” (the 2007 tournament was the first held after Nelson’s death). 
• His best finish in a major championship was a tie for fourth at the PGA Championship in 2011.

Awards and Honors

• Received the NCAA Silver Anniversary Award in 2011 for distinguished career accomplishments on the 25th anniversary of his college graduation.