Grand Rose Bowl experience results in husky welcome to California’s most luxurious resort
Michael Patrick Shiels
Shawn Cox left the Wolverines licking their wounds when his undefeated University of Washington Huskie football team beat Michigan 34-14 in the 1992 Rose Bowl and won a share of the national championship. “Desmond Howard had won the Heisman Trophy and we scouted him for three weeks leading into that game. We shut him down,” said Cox who played defensive back. “We ran a very aggressive defense that put eight to nine guys up in the box.”
It was tee boxes Cox, a Seattle native whose mother played college golf, turned his attention to after graduation. When some late-night beers gone-wrong in the Torrey Pines Golf Course cart barn resulted in an immediate job opportunity, Cox found himself in America’s Finest City at the right time and was hired by the venue at which the PGA Tour competes annually and Tiger Woods won eight times - including a U.S. Open victory C