AIN’T OVER ‘TIL IT’S OVER 🫨
A crowded race leads to a BATTLE for the win at the line as Nathan Mountain dives for a 8:13.81 victory in the #USATFoutdoor steeplechase, just beating out a hard-closing Carson Williams, second in a new lifetime best of 8:13.88.
Mountain only finished ninth in the NCAA final six weeks ago, and now he’s your U.S. national champion.
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🚨 ICYMI: Last night, at the Virginia Challenge, veteran Nathan Mountain THRIVED on his home track, clocking a monster time of 8:11.92 in the 3000-meter steeplechase! 🚧💦
Following Geoffrey Kirwa's recent 8:08 effort from the Bryan Clay Invite, Mountain now sits at NCAA #3 all-time in the event. 😮💨
𝗡𝗔𝗧𝗘 𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗠𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗧𝗔𝗜𝗡 🤯
Nate Mountain shattered records in the men's 3000m steeplechase invite clocking a new personal best of 8:11.92!
School Record ✔️
Meet Record ✔️
Facility Record ✔️
NCAA No.1 this season 👀
#GoHoos
Gary Woodland is the anti-Tiger Woods in every possible way.
Allow me to explain why.
Gary Woodland just won the Houston Open by five shots.
Two and a half years ago, doctors cut a baseball-sized hole in his skull to remove a brain lesion.
He spent two nights in the ICU.
There was a real chance he would wake up paralyzed.
This is the best comeback story in golf right now and it's not even close.
The full story behind today is insane.
In 2019, Gary Woodland won the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach.
He finished 13-under and beat Brooks Koepka by three strokes.
At that point, Woodland had four PGA Tour wins including a major, and was ranked 12th in the world.
Then everything slowly fell apart.
After the 2023 Masters, Woodland became consumed by fear.
Not regular nerves.
Actual, debilitating terror.
He was afraid he was going to die.
Afraid something was going to happen to his kids.
Afraid of falling to his death in his sleep.
At the Memorial Tournament in June 2023, he woke up in his hotel room and clung to the mattress for an hour.
He was convinced that if he let go, he would fall.
His hands were trembling.
He had no appetite.
Spasms would jolt him awake at night.
He was losing focus over putts.
Forgetting what club he was holding mid-swing.
An MRI finally revealed the cause.
A lesion was growing on his brain.
It was pressing directly on the part of his brain that controls fear and anxiety.
Think about that.
The thing responsible for every irrational terror he was experiencing had a physical, medical explanation.
His brain was literally being pressed into a constant state of fear.
In September 2023, Woodland had a craniotomy.
Surgeons removed as much of the lesion as they could, roughly half, because it was pressed against the optic tract of his left eye.
They cut off blood supply to the rest to try to stop it from growing.
He walked out of the hospital two days later.
Started putting again two days after that.
He came back to the PGA Tour in January 2024 at the Sony Open.
But he was nowhere near the same player.
In 26 starts during 2024, he had three top-25 finishes.
His best was a tie for ninth at the Shriners Children's Open.
For a former U.S. Open champion, those are survival numbers.
And nobody knew the full extent of what he was dealing with.
Because on top of the brain surgery and the recovery, Woodland had been diagnosed with PTSD.
He kept it hidden for over a year.
He described being hypervigilant on the course.
A walking scorer once got too close from behind and startled him so badly that his vision went blurry and he forgot where he was.
He would go into bathrooms between holes and cry.
He would break down in the scoring trailer after rounds.
He would sprint to his car in the parking lot just to hide it from everyone.
He said he felt like he was living a lie.
Spending so much energy pretending to be okay that he had nothing left for the actual golf.
On March 9, three weeks before this Houston Open, Woodland finally told the truth publicly.
He sat down with Golf Channel's Rex Hoggard and revealed everything.
The PTSD.
The crying.
The fear.
All of it.
He said after that interview it felt like a thousand pounds had been lifted off his back.
Then he showed up at Memorial Park.
He opened with a 64.
Then a 63.
Then a 65.
Then a 67 on Sunday to close it out.
259 total.
A tournament record.
21-under par.
Five strokes clear of Nicolai Højgaard.
Wire to wire.
Led every single round.
His first win since the 2019 U.S. Open.
Nearly seven years between victories.
Brain surgery, PTSD, two years of hiding in bathrooms between holes, and a thousand pounds of weight he was carrying that nobody could see.
This is a guy who was a basketball player first.
He grew up in Topeka, Kansas, won state basketball titles at Shawnee Heights High School, and played a year of college basketball at Washburn before he realized golf was his future.
He won the Courage Award from the PGA Tour in 2025.
The seventh player to ever receive it.
And now, at 41 years old, with titanium plates holding his skull together, he walked into Memorial Park three weeks after telling the world the truth about what he had been going through and played the best golf of the entire field for four straight days.
The full breakdown of Woodland's career, the surgery, the PTSD, and how he got to this point is here:
https://t.co/5ngVyMCs78
There is a reason this one hits different.
Comeback stories in sports usually involve torn ACLs or shoulder surgeries.
Things you can see.
Things that heal on a timeline.
Woodland's comeback was from something that rewired his brain.
Something that turned his own mind against him.
And the hardest part of his recovery wasn't physical.
It was admitting to the people around him that he wasn't okay.
Three weeks ago he said the words out loud.
Today he won a golf tournament by five shots.
🚨 BREAKING: Huge victory as Tom Homan reveals ICE located over 3,300 MISSING MIGRANT CHILDREN in Minnesota
"Children that the last administration lost and weren't even LOOKING for!"
This is massive, it should be front-page news!
Penalties for Illegal Entry:
🇸🇬 Singapore: 6 months in prison.
🇷🇺 Russia: 2 years in labor camp
🇮🇳 India: 8 years in prison
🇵🇰 Pakistan: 10 years in prison
🇰🇵 North Korea: Death penalty
🇺🇸 USA: Free housing, healthcare, education, food, transportation, phones, cash…
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You remember when Democrats were AGAINST illegal immigration?
Hillary Clinton. Bill Clinton. Barack Obama. Nancy Pelosi. Chuck Schumer. The list goes on and on.
Every one of them now openly support it. What changed?
This falls right in line with my post about the difference between Obama and Trump with regards to ICE. So how does Tom Holman receive the Distinguished Service Award for his work with ICE under Obama, but now he’s a Nazi? Make it make sense. America is falling for one of the biggest gaslighting campaign in history.
In 2000, the average family paid about $6,000 a year for health insurance.
Today, it is nearly $27,000.
That is not inflation. That is Obamacare.
Republicans cannot just oppose it. We have to replace it with something that actually works.
2024 Elizabeth Warren: Jerome Powell needs to cut interest rates.
2025 Elizabeth Warren: Trump needs to stop calling for Jerome Powell to cut interest rates.
Now that DoJ is going after Powell, Democrats have declared him to be a saint. So predictable
Obama got an applause for saying illegals undercut American workers, and safety laws.
Trump echos the EXACTsame talking points, and gets labeled a Fascist Nazi.
Chuck Schumer Rips Trump for Ending Maduro Regime After Previously Ripping Him For NOT Ending It
The script could not have been written any better. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
This just proves they’re not mad because of what Trump did in Venezuela, only that he was successful.
🎥 find by the the amazing @mazemoore
https://t.co/dtFSoHDoho