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Lawrence Smelser — THE BATTALION
Ryan Palmer, Class of 2000,- is shown above at the Valero Texas Open
at the end of March.
PALMER CONTINUED
be an Aggie. I didn’t recruit him be
cause of the situation that we had on
the team. He said, ‘Okay, I still want
to come to Texas A&M.’”
Ellis, Palmer and the golf team de
veloped a unique relationship. Ellis
joked that Palmer wasn’t the best put
ter on the team at first.
“We would have putting matches
amongst the team and I sometimes,
and he was our patsy. ‘Come on Ryan.
Come on Ryan. Get over here and
putt!’ He couldn’t — he couldn’t beat
a drum. He was terrible. I thought he
would be a good player,” Ellis said.
“There was no question he would be
a good player, but to do what he does
now, week in and week out, who that
person was when we were trying to
bring him over to be our patsy, make
some money off of him, I don’t know
who that person was, he’s entirely dif
ferent now. He’s someplace, he’s in
someplace that no longer exists.”
Palmer earned All-Conference hon
ors all three years at A&M and was the
Aggies’ scoring leader for two seasons.
He also made the 1997 Big 12 All-
Tourney team along with Miguel del
Angel.
Del Angel said he remembers spend
ing time watching The Masters with
Palmer in college.
“We would go to Ryan’s house and
watch The Masters,” Del Angel said.
“It’s kind of surreal having him out
there. We used to play some of the
golfers out there like Paul Casey, Tiger
Woods and Luke Donald. It’s nice to
see Ryan on TV.”
Ellis said Palmer is not only known
for his skill, but for his sportsmanship
and character on and off the course.
Palmer created a charity, the Ryan
Palmer Foundation, and works to stay
involved with the Aggie community.
“Ryan is the type of person that if
you can’t get along with him, then
you’ve got a problem,” Ellis said. “He
was always a joy to be around, a joy to
coach. Everything I ever asked him to
do, he did. He was always hard work
ing, fun to be around and very talent
ed.”
After graduating from A&M with a
degree in parks and recreation, Palmer
turned professional in 2000 and earned
his PGA Tour Card in 2003. He has
won three tournaments on the PGA
Tour — the 2004 FUNAI Classic, the
2008 Ginn sur Mer Classic and the
2010 Sony Open.
Last season was Palmer’s best statis
tically on the PGA Tour. Despite no
tournament wins, he made the cut in
20 of 23 events and finished with 10
top-25s and eight top-10s, which in
cluded finishing second at the Humana
Challenge and at the Honda Classic.
This season, Palmer is off to a hot
start. He has made 1 the top 25 in seven
of eight tournaments and has tallied
three top-10s, including a tie for sec
ond at the Waste Management Phoe
nix Open.
Palmer credits his recent run of suc
cess to changes in his game.
“I’ve gotten better physically with
the workouts I’ve been doing,” Palmer
said. “I hit a lot more fairways and a lot
more greens. When I’m putting well is
when I’m having my good events and
my good weeks. The combination of
driving the ball well and putting the
ball well [has] helped [me the] last few
years.”
Although Palmer has graduated, he
still spends time in Aggieland with his
wife, Jennifer, who graduated from
A&M with a biomedical sciences de
gree.
“I try to go to as many football games
as I can, that’s for sure, and I keep up
with the guys on the golf team and JT,”
Palmer said.
Palmer has earned $18,318,471 since
2004. However, he said it’s not about
the money.
“I never look at the money side of it
or what I have monetary wise,” Palmer
said. “At this point in my career, it’s
just a matter of competing, trying to be
the best in the world and winning golf
tournaments.”
Palmer will tee off at 11:42 a.m. and
is paired with three-time major win
ner Irish golfer Padraig Harrington and
Danish golfer Thomas Bjorn.
ANTHONY CONTINUED
really committed to the educational part and the
outreach as much of the performance.
THE BATTALION: What kind of dance styles do
you offer in your company?
KORESH: It's closest to the contemporary modern
dance genre, but it's because there's not really other
ways of describing what it is that we do. Because
what we do is really dance, and dance doesn't have
a specific style, not in my opinion. The second you
put a style on it you limit what you can do or can
not do. So it ecompasses everything and it's from
folk dance to contemporary to modern dance to jazz
to hip hop moves. The moves are the derivative of
everything in life, but the style itself is really content
driven. So we will use anything to deliver a mes
sage we're trying to deliver. It's quite accessible, it's
major, it's very passionate, it's very physical, very
technical, and has all the ingredients for a fantastic,
fantastic show.
THE BATTALION: What sets the dance company
apart from others?
KORESH: Our ability to connect with audiences.
What we do creates a dialogue between the per
former and the audiences. It's something that the
audience connects with immediately when they
watch what they watch. We do a lot of Q&As,
question and answer, after. Besides all the outreach
programs that we do, we connect with the commu
nity itself. To some degree, some of what we do is
not just performance, it's residency. So we come to
an area, we're there from four days to a week, and
we are a part of the community and a part of the
fabric of the community and so when we leave, we
leave also a memorable experience for everybody.
And then coming back is a desirable thing for that
community, they feel invested in us. I think us being
invested in the community creates a chain reaction
that they community is invested in us. And so now
there is a relationship and through the relationship
you can actually develop a deeper understanding
of what we do and what the means of the viewer
are and the community are. And so that's one of the
things that differentiates us, beside the fact that we
are — the dancers are technically superb and the
choreography is quite visually stimulating.
THE BATTALION: You all do a lot of touring also,
you aren't permanently based in Philadelphia
season-round?
KORESH: We're primarily a touring company. This
season alone we've been to about 25 different com
munities in the country as well as outside the coun
try. We were in Belarus not too long ago, we just
got back from Seattle and North Carolina. So many
different places. We're going to Florida next week
and we're going to Alabama and Mississippi.
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