WACO, Texas — Any golfer knows the game brings as many headaches as it does great moments.
That’s especially true on tricky greens, where slick surfaces can make for a long day.
But it wasn’t a long night for a Central Texan navigating 96 feet of hardwood.
Marvin Griffin stroked in a full court putt at the Baylor men’s basketball game Tuesday night.
The crowd went nuts, and Marvin took home $5,000 — and then some.
“There were three putts,” he tells 25 News. "Someone asked me if I wanted to try it [...] I made the first short one for $200, missed the second and then.”
Then, the “Golf Gods” shined their light on the 52-year-old during a timeout.
“When it got three quarters of the way I thought, ‘This thing is going in,' and boy, it went in. Wow. The next move is just to jump and scream. Then, you hear the crowd going crazy — that's a great feeling,” Griffin said.
The clip posted by Baylor has been shared thousands of times on social media. Even ESPN picked up the footage, as did CBS.
It’s a moment the retired fire medic says he’ll never forget.
“The people were so warm, it was awesome. It really was Southern hospitality.”
