Matt McCarty was set to go take in what eventually became the Tennessee Volunteers’ win over the Alabama Crimson Tide college football game last weekend.
But as fate would have it, McCarty earned a start in last week’s Shriners Children’s Open and was unable to see one of the biggest upsets in college football this season by the school his younger sister attends.
How did he get in the field last week in Vegas? He won in just his third PGA Tour start ever at the Black Desert Championship the week before.
“I was actually I was supposed to go to that game, but ended up— like I told myself if I top-10’d [and] got in Vegas. I wouldn’t go,” McCarty said on this week’s episode of GOLF’s Subpar. He obviously did more than just top-10.
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“So we ended up going to Vegas”
Not a bad place to head after earning your first PGA Tour victory, so naturally, co-hosts Colt Knost and Drew Stoltz asked McCarty what he did to celebrate his breakthrough while in “Sin City”
McCarty said they wasted no time celebrating as soon as they made the two hour drive from Ivins, Utah to Las Vegas late on Sunday night.
“A lot of too-much-time-spent-in-Vegas with the boys and everything,” McCarty joked. “We had a few of our college buddies funnel in throughout the week and a couple of my boys I grew up playing golf with as well. So it was a lot of fun and I had my girlfriend there for a couple of days. But yeah, we did it properly.”
McCarty said the games of choice were Blackjack and Bearcat.
“We got off to some hot starts and then cooled down a little bit,” he said. What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas after all.
For more from McCarty, including his favorite perk of PGA Tour membership, check out the full episode of Subpar below.
