Watch: Nate Oats Hits His First Hole-in-One
Nate Oats has been enjoying the offseason.
On Wednesday, the Alabama basketball coach participated in the Regions Tradition Celebrity Pro-Am in Birmingham, where his unique golf swing made the rounds on social media.
However, on Friday, Oats hit his first-ever hole-in-one during the Mal Moore Memorial. It was on the sixth hole at North River Yacht Club in Tuscaloosa. Check out his reaction, which was shared on Twitter:
"Need to play with this crew more often," Oats shared on social media.
On The Roundtable on JOX 94.5 this week, Oats revealed that he has only been playing golf since he moved to Alabama back in March of 2019. Earlier this offseason, he joined Iona coach Rick Pitino for a round at the historic Winged Foot Golf Club.
The Crimson Tide defeated the Gaels, 68-55, in the first round of the 2021 NCAA tournament back on March 20 in route to the program's first Sweet 16 appearance since 2004.
Oats appeared on the Paul Finebaum Show on Wednesday afternoon and expressed his commitment to Alabama for the long haul after his contract extension back at the end of February.
“I was happy Greg [Byrne] extended me and I like it in Alabama a lot,” Oats said. “I like working with Greg, I like working with the staff we have. I want to continue to build this thing, so I didn’t mind that he pretty much took me out of contention for a lot of those jobs that maybe my name came up, because I really don’t want to move. I’ve got three young girls that are — I’ve got a daughter going into her senior year of high school, an 11-year-old and an 8-year-old. My family likes it there, we’d like to be there a long time, we’d like to build it. I just think if we keep getting better, we can kind of eliminate a lot of those distractions as you got close to the end of the year.
"Now, we can just focus on recruiting and building this program."
