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When Greg Brown entered Point Loma College in 1974, a couple of golfers, Rick Cole and Rick Mallicoat, were the mainstay members of PLC’s golf team. Both Ricks went on to professional golf careers.

Brown became the number one on the Crusader team upon their departure and carried out that role for three years. His culminating act as a PLC golfer was to do something neither Cole nor Mallicoat managed—to win the NAIA National Championship.

The Houston, Texas paper provides us an interesting account. Most of the ink was going to the coach and players from the host school and winners of the team championship, Sam Houston State University —but the one they chased all week was PLC’s Brown:

“The coolest man on the 6,753-yard, par-72 layout, first opened in 1971 and built along the shores of spring-fed Elkins Lake, was Greg Brown of Point Loma Calif.

Brown graduated on Sunday (June 4), jumped aboard a jet for Houston three hours later and began his drive to capture medallist honors.

“I told myself to keep calm and have fun,” he said, “If you blow up over one bad shot, then you’re in trouble the rest of the round. I really had a nice time here. It was a good graduation present.”

Brown’s contribution to the golf team went much further than just his playing. He had the knack and knowledge to be a teacher and role model for the other players. He exemplified the kind of person PLNU strives to produce.

Greg and wife Judy have two children: Jordan and Evan. After Point Loma, Brown moved on to life in West Covina where he worked with New York Life Insurance.

The Award for Outstanding Achievement by an Athlete was presented to Brown by Steve Foster.