Wyckoff’s Hoffmann finishes 9th at The Barclays, but feels like a winner

Wyckoff’s Hoffmann finishes 9th at The Barclays, but feels like a winner

AUGUST 24, 2014, 10:32 PM    LAST UPDATED: SUNDAY, AUGUST 24, 2014, 11:38 PM
BY TARA SULLIVAN
RECORD COLUMNIST
THE RECORD

Hour after hour, day after day, little Morgan Hoffmann would make the round trip from the back yard of his family’s Wyckoff home to the front, chipping golf balls over the roof, retrieving them and hitting them again. The long, flat front lawn stretched out in front of him, a playground for his dreams.

“I used to wonder why he’d hit it over the house, but now I understand: He has to hit it over the trees,” Hoffmann’s mom, Lorraine, said Sunday, not far from the foliage surrounding Ridgewood Country Club’s 18th fairway in Paramus.

Across a fourth day of The Barclays golf tournament and throughout another 18 holes, Morgan Hoffmann had the galleries nearly climbing the trees to get a look at him, using exposed roots as footstools to get a glimpse of their local hero. From the very first tee, when the crowd wouldn’t allow the announcer to get past the words, “Next on the tee, from Wyckoff, New Jersey …” before breaking into thunderous applause, Hoffmann was carried across the course by a wave of support like nothing he’d ever felt before.

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