Before breakfast, a quick stop at the driving range.
It may seem trivial that hitting a bucket of balls was Jon Scheyer’s priority on the last morning of Cooper Flagg’s official visit to Duke — Oct. 22, 2023. But the coach wanted one final one-on-one window with the nation’s No. 1 recruit, and he’d come to learn how much the Newport, Maine, native appreciated golf. In fact, amid Flagg’s meteoric rise to becoming arguably the top NBA prospect in America, the high schooler often found reprieve in playing 18 at Fogg Brook Resort, the local course near his childhood home.
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Scheyer came to know nearly everything about Flagg and his family
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