We're at the halfway point of 2016. With all due respect to what may be coming in the rest of the sport's calendar, I think we've already seen the best moment that sports will have to offer this year.
Billy Hurley III's win at the Quicken Loans National at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Md., June 26 was not only his first career PGA Tour victory in 104 tries, it was also one of the most emotional moments in recent golf history.
Hurley graduated from the Naval Academy in 2004, pausing his golf career to serve his country for five years, including a stint aboard the USS-Chung Hoon. He was able to return to golf in 2011, battling to make the PGA Tour and qualify for events. Before his hometown tournament, the Annapolis, Md., resident had missed six of 11 cuts on tour this season alone.
As if his service to the country and battles to get his career going weren't enough to make the win emotional, Hurley was less than 12 months removed from losing his father to a self-inflicted gunshot wound last August.
