ooted
in Stillwater STORY BY RYAN CAMERON
How long did it take first-year Cowgirl head coach Greg Robertson to earn sweat equity in Oklahoma State and its golf programs? Less than 48 hours.
On an August Friday in 1993, Robertson arrived in Stillwater via New Mexico to begin his collegiate journey, staying with teammate Billy Brown. “The first night I got into town, he told me to make sure and wear some clothes I could get dirty. We had to be at the golf course in the morning so we didn’t really know what we were going to be doing,” Robertson said. The Cowboys’ future home, Karsten Creek, was under construction at the time. Therefore, any team members in town preparing for the start of the academic year and not competing in the summer’s final amateur events spent the majority of that Saturday laying sod on the course’s closing hole.
“We basically laid half or two-thirds of the 18th fairway,” Robertson said. “It was 90-something degrees and humid and we hated everything about it, but you look back on it now and it was a pretty cool thing we did.” To this day, the satisfaction from a hard day’s work and the lessons gained from it still exist for Robertson. “It was good, and it is what Coach Holder is all about, having an appreciation for what you are a part of,” Robertson said. “Any time we hit a shot on 18, I think we may have laid that piece of sod right there, and I have a bit more appreciation for what we have here.”
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