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LIV Golf's most interesting player had wild trip on way to the big time
UTTOXETER, United Kingdom — John Catlin was a split second away from pushing a button that would have ended his career. It was 2016, years before the Sacramento native made it to LIV Golf as an injury substitute for Charles Howell III on Crushers GC, which …