Long Beach State University Athletics
Goydos' Hat To Be Donated
6/3/2008 12:00:00 AM | General
June 3, 2008
LONG BEACH, Calif. - Paul Goydos will be presenting the hat which he wore at the 2008 PGA Players Championship to Gene Rotondo of Legend's Restaurant and Sports Bar on Monday, June 9th at 1 pm. Goydos, who finished second at the tournament in Ponte Verda Beach, Florida, is a 1987 graduate of Long Beach State and proudly showed his 49er pride by wearing a Dirtbag baseball cap throughout the tournament. Goydos will conduct a press conference upstairs at Legend's for the media and then he will sign autographs afterwards downstairs for the general public. The 49er Shops will be on-hand selling hats as well.
Below are some excerpts from Goydos' interview with pgatour.com with Laury Livsey from May 20, 2008.
A week after losing to Sergio Garcia in a playoff at THE PLAYERS Championship, Paul Goydos was back on TOUR at the AT&T Classic in Duluth, Ga. Although Goydos missed the cut by one stroke, he stuck around the Atlanta suburb on the weekend to appear on CBS Sports' telecast of the tournament Saturday afternoon.
What's your favorite restaurant? If I had one place to go to eat, and this is sacrilegious to all the Long Beach people, but Super Mex in Belmont Shore.
Tell me something about Long Beach that people don't know. I think it's the largest small town in America, a city where the people have an unbelieveable amount of pride. They're Long Beach people. We talk about somebody being a Long Beach guy. You'd never hear that about L.A., and Long Beach has 500,000 people.
How many Long Beach hats do you own? Just this one. It was soaked yesterday (during a rainstorm at the AT&T Classic). So I threw that and my rain pants in the dryer. We're going to auction it off for the Jewels of the Night fundraiser at Long Beach State. The fundraiser is May 17, but I'm going to wear the hat at Colonial. Another auction item is a two-day golf outing for eight at Lake Arrowhead that I'm going on with Dan Monson, (Long Beach) State's basketball coach.
