Rickie Fowler's Wife Is A Breakout Masters Star, 1990 Low Amateur Was A Unit & Wild OJ Video Resurfaces

I started my Masters opening day by getting lost in a Reddit thread detailing some of the dirtiest family secrets you'll ever read, pivoted to scouring the internet for rapid reaction to OJ Simpson's death (goodbye, Twitter world), and then ended it by watching Tiger Woods tee off at Augusta. 

How's THAT for a whirlwind Thursday in April? Insane day. It's what makes this country so damn great, despite Joe trying to take it apart, brick by brick. 

On that note, welcome to a Thursday Nightcaps – the one you all skim through everything between Tiger shots and try to act somewhat interested. I get it. Believe me, so am I. 

So, will Rickie Fowler's pole-vaulter wife, Allison Stokke, help with the engagement time? We'll see. She stole the show at yesterday's Par-3 tourney, which prompted a quick trip down memory lane. 

Speaking of Augusta … anyone else see this viral picture of the 1990 amateur champ making the rounds today? Incredible. Chris Patton is 100% an OutKick guy. No doubt about it. 

What else? We'll check in with Chip Gaines – yep, that Chip Gaines – as he shoots his shot with a couple Kentucky moms, dive into some OJ memes, and talk about that Reddit thread that took up half my morning. 

Sound good? God, I hope so, because that's what you're getting this afternoon. 

Grip it and rip it, say a prayer at Amen corner, and grab a peach ice cream sammy with Paige Spiranac, and settle in for a Masters Day Nightcap!

I reckon we'll start with the OJ Simpson news

Thanks for keeping things light at the jump, Paigeviews, but now we have to get a little dark with the OJ Simpson news …

… right? 

I'll be honest, I have no clue what the true public perception of OJ Simpson is/was. None. Do y'all hate him because you think he was a murderer, like him because you think he actually didn't do it, or did you just find him funny on Twitter over the last few years of his life?

I think I'm the last one. His Hello, Twitter World was iconic from the jump, and then he'd just randomly pop in every few weeks with some weird fantasy football take. Always from a golf course, too.  

He was also a bit of a loose cannon towards the end (and the middle, too, I guess). Remember earlier this year when he hopped on a podcast and basically gave out some free confession advice?

Wild. 

So, again – where does/did everyone stand with OJ? I was 1 when he ran from the cops in 1994, so I sadly missed that. The OJ I know best is the current (at least until yesterday) one that just said "Hello, Twitter World" every few weeks in some weird, random video. 

He also inspired (is that the right word?) a great FX show with Ross Gellar as the Kardashian dad. That was cool, too. 

Anyway, the internet was up to the task when the news came down this morning. 

Speaking of family drama, how about this Reddit thread?

How about the Heisman Trophy account feeling the need to weigh in. Why? Just seems like a recipe for disaster. Some of the best bets are the ones you don't make, you know. 

After my MLB betting day yesterday, I need to start following my own advice. Whooooof. God bless, am I in trouble. 

Now, I wrote about this earlier, but it's worthy of a Nightcaps class. I don't know how I stumbled upon this – I think for some reason I got an email about it – but this Reddit thread that went viral overnight is mesmerizing.

The question posed to the crowd: What family secret was finally spilled in your family?

Simple question. Loaded and I mean LOADED answers. 

I come from a family filled with enough divorce to make your heads spin, alcoholism, scandal, drama – you name it – and I was even taken back by some of these responses.  

Here are a few I picked out for the class:

- My great aunt was a nurse supervisor at a mental hospital in the 1920s. She fell in love with a guy who was being evaluated for a murder trial. She helped him escape and they went to Florida. But the police caught up with them. My aunt got off easy, but he got the electric chair. I found all this in a newspaper archives while working on family history. Showed it to my mom and she admitted it was all true.

- My aunt didn't lose her teaching job due to budget cuts like she'd always claimed. Turns out she had never had a valid teaching license to begin with, regularly had affairs with the dads, and embezzled PTA money!

- My uncles are infamous criminals who killed multiple people. I thought they bred dogs.

- My father's brother killed 4 girls when he was in high school. My father was the one who found out and told the police.

- In 1945, my great-aunt had an abortion. She was pregnant with twins after she was raped by a Soviet soldier after the battle of Berlin.

- One of my uncles might have been a serial killer. After he died, my cousins found a journal in his remote cabin in Northern Minnesota with a bunch of dates and what seemed like descriptions of people.

He was known for picking up hitchhikers. They turned stuff over to the FBI, but the Boundary Waters area is huge and remote, so unless someone stumbles across something, chances are it'll never be fully investigated.

- My uncle was a cop. My father was a mid-level drug kingpin. He basically ran the marijuana & psychedelics trade in a small city. When I was a kid my uncle died in the line of duty. There was a big funeral and everything.

Turns out he wasn't killed in the line of duty. The cops found out that my father was paying him for cop information. When he was accused, my uncle ate a gun in his squad car in a parking lot.

I found out 30 years later.

- My great-grandma was a Russian mail-order bride during the cold war. She got over, alone, on a boat. She left her Canadian buyer for a Ukrainian farmer and never told anyone she was Russian again (communism lol)

Pretty sure she was a witch lol.

Back to Augusta with Sean McDonough and 1990 amateur champ Chris Patton

We start right the hell off with a couple firecracker aunties who are banging mental patients and embezzling PTA funds, and then jump right into a real-life Breaking Bad situation followed by some Russian mail-order bride and witchcraft.

Wild little ride, huh? If you're bored later tonight on the shitter, here's the full thread. Go to town. 

Rapid-fire time as we gear up for a big Thursday evening in Augusta!

First up, before ending the day in Georgia? How about Chip Gaines – yes, that Chip Gaines from HGTV – spending all week going to absolute WAR with Kentucky fans over the potential hiring of Scott Drew. 

Gaines, of course, is a Baylor alum, and defended Drew at all costs:

Incredible. Who knew Chip Gaines from HGTV was such a pistol? And hey, he won in the end, because Scott ended up staying at Baylor. 

That, folks, is what it means to have "f--k you money."

OK, back to the Masters on the way out …

The Par-3 tourney yesterday was electric, as always, and the great Sean McDonough cranked up the heat with a save for the ages:

Nice work, Sean. By the way, how great is McDonough? One of the most underrated play-by-play guys of all time. Maybe I'm biased because I grew up on him calling Red Sox games, but whatever. The guy's a magician. 

Next? Maybe I'm late to the party, but I'm all in on 1990 Masters low amateur Chris Patton (start the video at 3:14:00):

Rickie Fowler's wife, Allison Stokke, dominated the Par-3 tourney

I mean, what a unit. Those stories are true, by the way. Guy started playing golf as a teen and was the low amateur at Augusta like five years later. Insane. 

And how about young Jim Nance? His voice has really always been like that, huh? Wild. 

OK, that's all for today. Allison Stokke – the ex-Cal pole-vaulter and wife of Rickie Fowler – dominated the Par-3 tourney yesterday and started our big weekend off right. 

Welcome back to class, Allison. Been a while. Go get 'em this week!

See you tomorrow. 

OutKick Nightcaps is a daily column set to run Monday through Friday at 4 p.m. (roughly, we’re not robots).

We feeling sad about OJ or nah? Email me at Zach.Dean@OutKick.com.