How Zach Johnson’s team once dominated the court at an Augusta YCMA

A bunch of 5, then-no-name skilled golfers walks into the health club at the Augusta, Georgia YCMA.

Sounds like the begin of a nasty joke you’d hear at your membership’s nineteenth gap.

But based on former professional Josh Broadway, this story involving himself and 4 different younger execs — together with Ryder Cup Captain Zach Johnson — after they have been on the mini excursions, didn’t find yourself as the butt of many jokes.

“We got done practicing that morning,” Broadway informed GOLF’s Subpar co-hosts Colt Knost and Drew Stolz. “Let’s go to this ‘Y’ and play basketball. So we go in there and people everywhere and they’re like, ‘Hey, who wants to play next?’”

Sounds like a standard off day for any male of their teenagers and 20s, even an aspiring Tour professional. And again when Johnson and Broadway have been making their means as much as the massive stage in the early 200s, bodily health wasn’t the focus it’s immediately.

“At the time, we’re all, even then, we’re out of shape,” Broadway stated. “Obviously, we didn’t work out, you know, back then, working out was forbidden. You might hurt yourself, right?”

So what occurred when the group of most likely out-of-place 20-somethings performed their first recreation?

They gained. Then once more. And once more. And once more, Broadway says.

“We ran the place for like two hours,” he stated. “We played seven games. We won every game. Nobody could beat us.”

None of them had seen one another play earlier than too.

“We’re just like, are you any good? ‘Yeah, I’m pretty good.’ Are you any good? ‘Yeah, I can shoot,’” Broadway stated. “Next thing you know, we made three trips down the floor and we’re like, ‘Yeah, we’re good. We’re probably not losing today.’”

Finally, a bunch of seemingly the finest gamers there at the Y that day obtained collectively and at last knocked the golfers off the court.

Blake Adams wasn’t completely happy about it.

“Blake, he’s like a little quiet. Don’t say much, but he got pissed off,” Broadway remembered. “He said, ‘We’re gonna sit again then we’re gonna play y’all again.’ They’re like, yeah, that’s fine. We sat out a game and we beat them 15 to nothing the next game. And we’re like, Alright, we’re out. golfers are leaving.”

If Johnson decides to deliver the Ryder Cup team again to the team this fall in Rome, Broadway says somebody higher guard him with a hand in his face.

“He can absolutely fill it up,” Broadway stated.

Jack Hirsh

Golf.com Editor

Jack Hirsh is an assistant editor at GOLF. A Pennsylvania native, Jack is a 2020 graduate of Penn State University, incomes levels in broadcast journalism and political science. He was captain of his highschool golf team and nonetheless *tries* to stay aggressive in native amateurs. Before becoming a member of GOLF, Jack spent two years working at a TV station in Bend, Oregon, primarily as Multimedia Journalist/reporter, but additionally producing, anchoring and even presenting the climate. He may be reached at jack.hirsh@golf.com.