Editorial Standards \u24d8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\tGrundy Center High School senior Judd Jirovsky has quite the athletic resume: A state football champion at quarterback, an all-stater in baseball, state champion golfer, and an outstanding basketball and track athlete.Needless to say, he had options for college. But he made a kind of surprising choice. Out of all the places where Judd Jirovsky excels at sports, the golf course might be where he’s most comfortable.”With the school year wrapping up, and last time out here with all these guys is definitely a little bit emotional, for sure,” Jirovsky said.His record-setting performance to win the 2023 state golf title came with a realization”The performance my freshman year kind of led me to, internally, think that maybe this is a little something more special than other sports,” Jirovsky said.That realization eventually led up to last fall, when Jirovsky announced he got a golf scholarship to Stanford in California.”Obviously, it’s going to be a lot different, you know, location, weather, all kinds of different things I’ll have to adjust to,” Jirovsky said. “I think the opportunity at Stanford set itself apart from other sports. I love the game of golf, just like I love the rest of the sports I participate in. It’s something I can do for a long time.”Maybe a better question is, how did Stanford find him?”Coach (Conrad Ray), who’s the Stanford coach, he has a connection to a relative in Fort Dodge. That kind of put me on his radar a little bit,” Jirovsky said. “It’s a crazy opportunity. The fact that he had connections in the state of Iowa and to be able to see me and take a chance on me is something I don’t take for granted.”\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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Grundy Center High School senior Judd Jirovsky has quite the athletic resume: A state football champion at quarterback, an all-stater in baseball, state champion golfer, and an outstanding basketball and track athlete.<\/p>\n
Needless to say, he had options for college. But he made a kind of surprising choice. Out of all the places where Judd Jirovsky excels at sports, the golf course might be where he’s most comfortable.<\/p>\n
“With the school year wrapping up, and last time out here with all these guys is definitely a little bit emotional, for sure,” Jirovsky said.<\/p>\n
His record-setting performance to win the 2023 state golf title came with a realization<\/p>\n
“The performance my freshman year kind of led me to, internally, think that maybe this is a little something more special than other sports,” Jirovsky said.<\/p>\n
That realization eventually led up to last fall, when Jirovsky announced he got a golf scholarship to Stanford in California.<\/p>\n
“Obviously, it’s going to be a lot different, you know, location, weather, all kinds of different things I’ll have to adjust to,” Jirovsky said. “I think the opportunity at Stanford set itself apart from other sports. I love the game of golf, just like I love the rest of the sports I participate in. It’s something I can do for a long time.”<\/p>\n
Maybe a better question is, how did Stanford find him?<\/p>\n
“Coach (Conrad Ray), who’s the Stanford coach, he has a connection to a relative in Fort Dodge. That kind of put me on his radar a little bit,” Jirovsky said. “It’s a crazy opportunity. The fact that he had connections in the state of Iowa and to be able to see me and take a chance on me is something I don’t take for granted.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GRUNDY CENTER HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR JUDGE HAS QUITE THE ATHLETIC RESUME. STATE FOOTBALL CHAMPION. QUARTERBACK. ALL-STATE IN BASEBALL.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1852,1850,1847,44,747,1841,1840,1843,1848,1849,1851,1853,1846,692,1844,1842,1845],"class_list":["post-2548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-baseball","tag-coach","tag-connection","tag-golf","tag-golf-course","tag-grundy-center","tag-judd-jirovsky","tag-kind","tag-little-bit","tag-opportunity","tag-performance","tag-quarterback","tag-senior-season","tag-sport","tag-stanford","tag-stanford-golf","tag-state-football-champion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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