GUIDONIA MONTECELIO, Italy Sepp Straka has an American mother, went to an American university, lives in the United States and his undeniably American accent has a southern drawl.
GUIDONIA MONTECELIO, Italy Sepp Straka has an American mother, went to an American university, lives in the United States and his undeniably American accent has a southern drawl.
Yet there he was Tuesday, dressed in Europe’s white-yellow-and-blue uniform as he walked the fairways of the Marco Simone club outside Rome alongside Rory McIlroy, Tommy Fleetwood and Shane Lowry.
The 30-year-old Sepp Straka, who was born in Austria and moved to the U.S. when he was 14, never really considered playing for anyone else but Europe. And he has his family’s blessing.