Chris Stroud was overwhelmed by the number of texts and emails he received in the aftermath of his first PGA Tour win Sunday in the Barracuda Championship.

Stroud, as he and caddie Casey Clendenon were driving to Sacramento to start their Monday journey to Charlotte for the PGA Championship, said he had received over 600 texts and was attempting to respond to every one of them. Many were from folks in the Golden Triangle.

“So many people reached out to me,” he said. “A few of them wrote novels. The theme was about how they were so happy for me for never giving up. Tell your readers I can’t thank them enough. I teared up a few times.”

Stroud’s major challenge for the PGA Championship may be recharging after his adrenaline high wore off. He said he hoped to be able to sleep on his flight from Sacramento to Atlanta, then on to Charlotte. He also hoped to sleep in on Tuesday, but was anticipating a wild scene when he arrived at Quail Holllow Country Club.

The PGA Championship will be Stroud’s sixth consecutive week of tournament play. He is also scheduled to tee it up next week in the Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, North Carolina, then is assured of competing in the first two FedEx Cup playoff events in New York and Boston.

That would make nine straight weeks, a workload that is not conducive to playing your best golf.

“It is a concern,” he admitted. “I would really like to be fresh when the playoffs start. It is a great problem to have. One way or another, it will work out. I am so thankful to be in this position.”

A couple of items in the Barracuda win that got overlooked was Stroud going to the long putter he used in the past, and the fact he was playing with a knee brace. Due to a freak accident getting out of a lawn chair, he has a slight tear in the lateral collateral ligament on the outside of his right knee.

It obviously did not hamper him too much.

Among the eye-opening aspects in his Golf Channel TV interview with John Cook was Chris’ shout out to his college coach at Lamar, and long time instructor, Brian White. He and White had a less than friendly break-up a couple of years ago and have not been talking.

“Acknowledging Whitey was the right thing to do,” said Stroud. “He is 75 percent of the reason behind my success in golf. I would not be where I am today without his help.”

One of the unfortunate sidebars to Stroud’s victory was that his dad, Jimmy, who lives and dies with Chris’ week-to-week adventures, did not get to directly witness the moment of triumph. He had been following the PGA Tour.com shot tracker but that shut down at the end of regulation play.

The playoff could be seen live on the NBC sports app and the Golf Channel app, but a series of phone misadventures blocked Jimmy. He wound up having to get a play-by-play over the phone from his son-in-law.

Eventually he was able to see the magical moment he has long awaited, in the week hours of Monday morning on Golf Central.

CHIP SHOTS
Timothy Feemster bested Port Neches-Groves teammate Bryce Parsley to win the Boys Gold Flight at Brentwood Country Club in the final Beltway Junior Tour tournament of the season. Both players shot 73.

Micah Depew of Beaumont posted an 82 to edge Preston Ricks of Lumberton by two strokes in Boys Silver. Other flight winners were Raelynn Hardgrave of Conroe (76 in Girls Diamond) and Makenna Henry of Sour Lake (98 in Girls Silver) …

Braden Bailey carded rounds of 71-76 for a 147 total that did not make the cut in last week’s Western Amateur in Chicago. Bailey, who had a limited summer season because of a shoulder issue that is not believed serious, will play his next competitive round in Baylor’s fall tourney opener next month.

One player Bailey beat in Chicago was former Dallas Cowboys QB Tony Romo.

Romo shot rounds of 80-82 and is apparently nowhere near the golfer Golden State deadeye Steph Curry is.

Curry, who played in the Web.com Tour’s Ellie Mae Classic outside San Francisco last week, stunned a lot of folks by shooting rounds of 74-74. Though he didn’t make the cut, Curry did beat a handful of Web.com players.

Among embarrassed critics was Lamar ex Dawie van der Walt who said he would eat his golf bag if Curry broke 80 again after his opening 74. Did you have that with mustard, Dawie???

Andrew Landry, who skipped last week’s tournament, remained atop the Web.com money list. He’s right at $23,000 ahead of No. 2 Stephen Jaeger. Landry returns for this week’s Web.com event in Springfield, Missouri, and plans to play the last three tournaments of the regular season …

The team of Joe Gongora, Harrell Guidry, Charlie Perez and Wes McDonald won the front nine of the Super Senior 2 ball Saturday at Babe Zaharias with minus-1. There was a three-way tie at minus 1 on the back between teams captained by Earl Richard, Price Youngs and Paul Flores …

In the Friday Senior 2 ball at Zaharias, the team of Craig Geoffory, Lee Bertrand, Charlie Perez and James Trahan tied the front at minus 1 with the foursome of Benny Sharpe, Ron Mistrot, Pete Reobroi and Steve Broussard. The Sharpe team won the back with minus 2 …

Format for the Thursday Senior 55 Plus Game at Zaharias was a two-man flighted 6-6-6. In First Flight, the team of Sharpe-Ron LaSalle won with 67.

Second Flight ended in a tie at 73 between Cap Hollier-Harry Green and Rick Pritchett-Raymond Darbonne.

In Third Flight, Bob Briggs-Paul Brown won with 75. Closest to the pin winners were Gongora (No. 2), Hollier (No. 7), Don MacNeil (No. 12) and Sharpe (No. 15).

The Wednesday Zaharias DogFight ended in a tie at 19 points between the team of Bim Morrow, MacNeil, Gerald Huebel and Sid Ducote and the foursome of Bob West, Larry Reece, Don Duplan and Robert Lyon.

Closest to the pin winners were Morrow (No. 2), Ducote (No. 7), Mike Rodgers (No. 12) and Reece (No. 15).

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