How This Harmless Prank (and Rickie Fowler) Got These College Golfers In Trouble
College Kids Are Famous For Doing Stupid Things And Getting In Trouble, It’s Just Because Of The Stars Oklahoma State stars Talor Gooch and Kevin Dougherty, will continue to compete on the PGA Tour. This does not mean they are exempt.
However, when they pulled a seemingly innocent, victimless prank while in Stillwater, Oklahoma, they thought they got away with it until they were indirectly exposed by another elderly Cowboys player Ceiling: Rickie Fowler.
Dougherty told the story of the stolen Oklahoma State media landscape to co-hosts Colt Knost and Drew Stoltz on last week’s episode of GOLF Subpar. Dougherty was quick to throw his former teammate under the bus.
âGooch was the first criminal,â he said.
âHe was there during summer school, I think just taking some classes because he was living in Oklahoma. And up at our athletic center where all the athletes go and do their work there and on this table, there were these media center backdrops. One had like writing all over it.â
Dougherty said Gooch must have thought the backdrops â also called âstep and repeatsâ â were to go to waste, so he grabbed one to take back to their house.
âBecause we didn’t have curtains for our house,â Dougherty said.
The future pros rigged the material to work as curtains and they became a big hit at the house. That was until Fowler, the golf team’s most famous alum, returned to campus for a visit. One of their teammates had never met Fowler and the two took a seemingly innocent photo at home.The Problem? âCurtainsâ were behind them and the photo was uploaded to Twitter, which is now X.
âIt’s hard to believe you got caught,â Stoltz joked.
Gooch and Dougherty tried to deny it, but it didn’t end well. Dougherty was suspended for one event while Gooch was suspended for two events.
“I said to myself, ‘No, if he has two, I’ll do two.’ So I’m just trying to make it clear to them,” Dougherty said. “We got suspended for two tournaments, and then we had loads of punishing workouts called the gauntlet at Oklahoma State.
âDougherty didn’t elaborate on the “glove,” but Knost seemed to know what it meant.
âI’ve heard of it,â Knost said. âGot in trouble asking a player about those one time.
â We’ll just use our imagination.