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Aaron Wise, the 2018 PGA TOUR rookie of the year and NCAA really worked with anyone specifically. I talked to Oregon coach
champion while at the University of Oregon, is a recent transplant to Casey Martin about who I should work with, and he referred me to
Las Vegas. He works with TPC Summerlin professional Jeff Smith, Jeff Smith. I knew I had to get better to compete in college. It was a
as do several others including Scott Piercy and Norman Xiong. Wise pretty simple decision to move here. To be able to work with him,
moved here a couple years ago, then moved to Arizona, but realized to get better at golf, and the weather is pretty good all year so I can
the error in his ways and is back in Las Vegas. He is also one of several play year-round. I feel like a lot of the Oregon guys who know me
Oregon Ducks, past and present, who live here. and work with Jeff have seen the same thing; that it really is a great
place to live and to develop your game. There’s a bunch of really
“They all followed me; I joke about that,” Wise said with a chuckle good young golfers out here now, and we can all go out and compete
shortly after a Shriners Hospitals for Children Open press conference. and have some fun when we are home.”
“When I was going into college as a senior in high school, I hadn’t

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