23 May '12, 9pm

NCAAs a homecoming for Alabama's Pancake: Alabama's Brooke Pancake, who got the golf bug at a summer

NCAAs a homecoming for Alabama's Pancake: Alabama's Brooke Pancake, who got the golf bug at a summer

FRANKLIN, Tenn. – When Brooke Pancake was just a tot, her grandfather took her to a golf camp put on by Golf House Tennessee. It was a weeklong co-ed camp, and Pancake and Jim Eaken were teary-eyed when it was time to drop her off. “I’m sure I’ll be back after tomorrow,” Eaken, known as Jimbo, told his wife. Instead, he came back a week later. “When that happened, I knew that golf had taken on her,” Eaken said. It was here on a short course known simply as the Little Course that Pancake, from Chattanooga, learned the game. Now a senior in college, the striking blonde who aced her way through Alabama exams sits atop the leaderboard after two rounds of the NCAA Championship. As a team, the Crimson Tide separated themselves from the field with a 3-under 285 at Vanderbilt Legends Club’s North Course. Alabama sits 11 shots ahead of top-ranked UCLA, North Carolina and Virginia a...

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