Zechariah Potter calls himself lucky.

Shortly after he and partner Brandon Hermreck won the finals of the Kansas Four-Ball Championship Sunday, he talked about all the breaks and good bounces they had received.

And, for a while, he wasn’t even talking about golf.

“Obviously, I feel a little bit blessed to even have this opportunity,” Potter said. “There are a lot of people with Tourette’s Syndrome that don’t even have the opportunity to have an everyday life. There’s some that are much worse off than I am.

“I’m just very blessed that I have the opportunity to do something like this.”

Potter made the most of his chance Saturday, combining with his Wichita State teammate to take a convincing 5&4 victory over Kansas University’s Gary Woodland and Luke Trammell in the 36-hole final.

The WSU pair posted 10 birdies in the 32-hole stretch.

Wichita State golfer Brandon Hermreck, left, watches his ball roll along the green as his partner, Zechariah Potter, picks up the flag. Hermreck and Potter won the Kansas Four-Ball Championship Saturday at Alvamar Golf Course.

“We just really hit a lot of good golf shots when we needed to hit them,” Potter said. “We were really fortunate today.”

Diagnosed with Tourette’s -which causes repetitive and involuntary tics – as a child, Potter remained determined to continue his golfing career.

“A long time ago, I used to think of it almost as a disabililty,” Potter said. “Any more, it’s really just part of me. I just go out there and do my thing.”

Off medication for over a year, Potter said he had learned ways to offset the effects of his condition.

“I feel that it might even work to my advantage,” Potter said, “because to be able to be still over a golf ball, I have to have my full concentration.”

The Shocker twosome prevailed despite facing an early challenge from Woodland and Trammell.

Luke Trammell tries to body-English a putt in the finals of the Kansas Four-Ball Championship. Trammell and teammate Gary Woodland fell to Zechariah Potter and Brandon Hermreck on Saturday at Alvamar Golf Club.

The KU team birdied the first hole to go 1-up and then birdied No. 2, threatening to seize early momentum and control.

Potter responded, knocking in a 12-foot putt to keep his team down one.

“If Zec doesn’t make his birdie putt on (No.) 2,” Hermreck said, “that match goes totally different.”

Instead, Hermreck birdied No. 3 to tie it, and the WSU team won five of the next 10 holes to go 5-Up after 16.

During one 24-hole stretch, Woodland and Trammell mustered just a single birdie to fall further behind.

“We didn’t play well enough to win today,” Woodland said. “That’s frustrating after playing all week.”

With their backs against the wall, the KU duo showed some life in the afternoon. Woodland drained a 25-footer on No. 11, and Trammell followed with a birdie-2 on 12 to go four down.

It wouldn’t be enough, as a bogey on No. 14 gave the Potter and Hermreck the title.

Woodland came up one match short of his third consecutive Four-Ball championship.

“If you get in the finals of Four-Ball and don’t hit it well and don’t make putts,” Woodland said, “you can’t expect much more than what we got.”

Especially against a golfer as lucky as Potter.

“I’ve never had a day in my life where I’ve not had Tourette’s Syndrome,” Potter said. “I don’t know whether it affects me or doesn’t affect me.

“I just keep on playing.”