Brad Dalke's Early Commitment: An Incredible Journey to OU

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00:00or I did commit to OU.

00:01I committed to OU when I was 12.

00:03Stop it, dude.

00:04You're 12 years old.

00:05What grade is that?

00:07I don't even know what grade that is.

00:09I think I was going into seventh grade.

00:12Golly.

00:13Okay, so I assume we hit puberty at this point.

00:17Right after, yeah.

00:19I got some guys who had even some friends that I grew up with.

00:23I don't even know that it hit puberty at that point.

00:26That's one of the lucky parts is like I kind of grew into my

00:29build pretty early and I kind of started learning how to hit it

00:32further early with the kind of build I have.

00:36I was about to say, when you were on football visits to Oklahoma

00:39at 12 years old and you're sitting there on the sideline,

00:41you got the coach right there next to you and then up walks Mdavikin Sioux

00:45and you're like, okay, all right, I'm down to go to Oklahoma.

00:48I'm going to look like that.

00:50Exactly.

00:51I committed to that early because first off, there's nowhere else I wanted to go.

00:56I'm sooner born, sooner bred.

00:58My parents went there, played sports there.

01:00My grandpa played sports there.

01:02Grandma was a cheerleader.

01:03I just absolutely love OU and always have.

01:06It didn't matter if they were ranked 150, if they were ranked number one.

01:11I wanted to go to OU.

01:13But then I got very lucky having Coach Hibble there.

01:15He joined the program.

01:17Did he recruit you too?

01:19He did, yeah.

01:19Okay, okay.

01:20He became head coach when I was 11 and that's when I started emailing him.

01:24I don't know why, but I started emailing him like, hey, Coach Hibble,

01:28saw that you're a new coach.

01:30I'm Brad Dahlke.

01:31I'm 11 years old and sixth grade.

01:33Here are my accomplishments.

01:34Here's how I do in tournaments.

01:36And I'm sure he was just rolling his eyes looking at the email.

01:38But then he finally, him and the assistant coach,

01:40came out and watched me in a few events.

01:42And they saw something special in me, I guess.

01:45And I was playing well, but they offered me.

01:48I went on an unofficial visit and went to the office.

01:51And they offered me a scholarship right then and there.

01:54And obviously.

01:55They could do all that because you're not in high school yet.

01:58Is that right?

01:59Yeah, back then there was like no rules on how young you could.

02:03There's obviously rules on.

02:04I think it's when you get to like high school,

02:08it was a period of time where they couldn't talk to you like ninth and

02:1110th grade until like the middle of your 10th grade year.

02:14So there may have been time when you were committed to Oklahoma and then

02:17had like two years where you like technically couldn't talk to you.

02:20There were rules on like them be able to talk to me, like text me, call me.

02:25Yeah.

02:25Remember that.

02:26Initiate the call or something.

02:27That's right.

02:27Had to be like on a visit or on property or something like that.

02:31Yep.

02:31But now once I committed, they actually changed a lot of rules.

02:34To where you can't even visit or anything until you're like 16 now.

02:39So I think I,

02:40I changed the recruiting landscape a little bit with college golf,

02:44which is kind of, I mean, I guess that's kind of cool.

02:47Hang, hang the banner.

02:50But yeah, Coach Hill took a risk on me.

02:52And I was so lucky that he was a coach I committed to.

02:56And, you know, that's the program I committed to.

02:58Cause he ended up, I mean, in my opinion, being the best,

03:02he's the best college coach in the nation.

03:03He, you know, he, he's obviously, he was a four-time all-American at Georgia.

03:07He's such a good golfer himself.

03:09He knows so much about the game.

03:10Yeah.

03:11He's also, he brings that kind of football mentality into golf a little bit.

03:15And, um, he makes you grind your butt off.

03:17He makes us compete a lot.

03:19And I, I truly think I, you know,

03:21wouldn't be as good of a golfer now, you know,

03:24if I didn't play for him for four years.

03:27So he, he was unbelievable and that's, it shows, I mean,

03:30the Oklahoma golf program now is, you know,

03:32up in the top of ranks every single year and, um,

03:35he's done a fantastic job there, but I was very lucky committing,

03:38you know, to him and to that program.

03:40But, uh, and then junior golf, all the rest throughout,

03:43just kind of kept playing 80 GAs.

03:45Um, I was, you know, played on five Wyndham cups.

03:48I was, uh, I think five, five.

03:50Holy mackerel, man.

03:51Yeah.

03:52I actually broke, uh, broke Tigers Wyndham cup of record for most points.

03:56One in the Wyndham cup.

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